Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Getting Organized

My wife did a presentation last night at her church's Enrichment Night on de-cluttering and home organization. Thankfully she cares about such things. Otherwise, our home would be a disaster. My wife did a great job preparing for the talk (see slides in Powerpoint or PDF along with handouts). Unfortunately, I didn't get to see her present (since I was chasing AJ around the church parking lot) but I heard from a number of afterwards that it went well and that people got a lot of value out of it. As with many things, the real trick here is to start small rather than feeling overwhelmed by the feeling that you have to do everything all at once. Also, to the extent you don't have time to read through my wife's materials, I would summarize them in three statements: (1) clutter affects our state of mind more than we realize, (2) if you don't use something, get rid of it, and (3) think hard before bringing something new into your home.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, baby. I like your 3 point summary a lot.