Remember when I wrote my productivity series and I shared 3 Ways to Be Efficient? I told you that when I’m cleaning a room and I find things that need to go downstairs or upstairs, I make a pile and then carry everything at once, rather than running up and down the stairs multiple times.
Well, here’s one of those piles, made when I picked up the living room and kitchen last night.
What’s in there? Cuisinaire Rods, schoolbooks, a notebook, some tools, and an egg carton which gets saved to be filled with local eggs.
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I need to read this series! I’m almost finished with Organized Simplicity. Have you read that? Anyways, its definitely helping me in keeping efficient, without giving up what is most important to me (snuggling with the kids, art, reading). Anyways, this series seem like it would match well with the book.
I haven’t, but it sounds really interesting!
That egg box wouldn’t have made it up or down our stairs. First-Born would have taken it to do a bit of creative recycling! It’s amazing what a smile an empty egg box can bring to a 6-year-old’s face
I sometimes find that, while piling is more efficient, I’m more effective if I take the item where it’s supposed to be _right now._ It might take more effort but cleaning up as a whole is done sooner.
Separate question for you, triggered by this photo: what do you get/make for stocking stuffers? I didn’t grow up with the tradition of stocking stuffers as well as gifts and am trying to learn. Small things, of course, but the small things I think of are either cheap junk, not gifty enough (no toothbrushes for me, please) or very, very expensive (small electronics, jewelry).
We put candy in there mostly, as well as some small gifts (Japanese erasers, craft supplies, stickers, some not-expensive jewelry, and so on). Like you, I try to shy away from cheap junk, so things need to be either edible, consumable (stickers), or well-made.