1. Mommy isn't there to clean up after me. Nor is there a magical cleaning fairy. I must be the one to get those socks from the hamper to the sock drawer.
2. Let stuff pile up, it gets overwhelming. And wastes my weekend/evening.
3. Keeping stuff neat and organized actually allows me to be lazy.
4. Being lazy allows me to spend more time with my kids and do fun stuff because I'm not hunting down the karate uniform, baseball uniform, dance outfit (insert here) 30 minutes before we have to leave only to find it is noticeably dirty (like food or something on it) or mildewing in the washer or that the violin's string is broken right before the lesson and either we don't have spares of that size or not really enough time to change it.
5. We don't have to get it done all in one day. Really. Don't kill yourself and give up and throw in the towel when it is messy again later that day. If you miss a "daily assignment", it will come around again in a week or so.
6. We'd been doing the organizing backwards--buying bins, then deciding what goes in them. This time we are deciding what to keep and then how to store what we love enough (or use enough) to keep.
2. Let stuff pile up, it gets overwhelming. And wastes my weekend/evening.
3. Keeping stuff neat and organized actually allows me to be lazy.
4. Being lazy allows me to spend more time with my kids and do fun stuff because I'm not hunting down the karate uniform, baseball uniform, dance outfit (insert here) 30 minutes before we have to leave only to find it is noticeably dirty (like food or something on it) or mildewing in the washer or that the violin's string is broken right before the lesson and either we don't have spares of that size or not really enough time to change it.
5. We don't have to get it done all in one day. Really. Don't kill yourself and give up and throw in the towel when it is messy again later that day. If you miss a "daily assignment", it will come around again in a week or so.
6. We'd been doing the organizing backwards--buying bins, then deciding what goes in them. This time we are deciding what to keep and then how to store what we love enough (or use enough) to keep.
