#3: Use your head to save your feet
via and her glow has warmed the world
In other words, if there is an ice cream bowl in the bedroom, I should carry it down with me to the kitchen rather than run up just to retrieve it when doing the dishes. If I pass by my coat on the back of a chair, I should hang it up. I have a friend who scrubs her shower while she's in it {showering, of course, and also not using comet or bleach or anything like that.} This seems like rather bonehead advice, but seriously...{there are so many people in my house, doing so many different things}, if I am not always working, the snowball gets really big, awfully quick. Her phrase 'use your head to save your feet' is probably not her own, just one of many grandmother-isms, wise old sayings or borderline Anne Taintor quips, but it makes a good point.
Making extra trips around the house helps no one.
I am contemplating a pedometer*. Some days it feels like a marathon, although I doubt I walk 50K steps, it would be interesting to see how many there actually were. The best part about moving to a house with four floors is that there is no way to avoid climbing stairs. I keep promising myself it will pay off, someday. Usually by dinner, I am wiped out, and there is still work to do, so I am endeavouring to really put this to use this week, and see if it makes a difference. I would love to carve out some more time to just sit, or call a friend, write a card or actually watch an entire Fringe episode without falling asleep.
via apartment therapy {in a post on nearly the same subject}
There must be untold numbers of time organization methods out there that try to combine jobs to simplify tasks, slim down the hours of housework, or work work or whatever, but I feel like they all take too much time to learn how to use them. I don't have a spare month burning a hole in my pocket to try out the Pomodoro technique, or to dizzy my way through the Fly Lady website. {and even when I got her emails, I didn't read them....oops}... This is much more my speed. It covers nearly everything, and I don't have to have a binder to use it!
Cleaning my room, Alice
*also, I would like to actually walk, outside, in the fresh air, not doing work...walk for enjoyment. The goal to lessen my running around the house is in no way to say that I want to be less active, or would like to get out of exercise. Ok? Ok.







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