All joking aside, it has been really nice to sit down each morning to a fresh start each day for the past two weeks. My active notebooks are always within arm's reach (and a few new ones are stowed away for future projects.)
I have to admit that during the course of any given day, the desk can still get cluttered up, but I am disciplining myself to clean it up each night, filing away bills, coupons, and stowing my notebooks back in their place. As a direct result of keeping my desk clean, I have:
- paid the household bills ahead of schedule this month (usually I'm scrambling to get them paid in the nick of time to avoid late fees);
- gathered my receipts, summarized them in a spreadsheet so we know what we spent on SBV this year - and for what area. (AND I turned it in and received my reimbursement check - woohoo!);
- compiled all the school supply giveaway notes and emails so we can put THAT project to rest until next year;
- remembered to grab coupons and saved quite a few $$$ this week;
- kept up with all my printouts of new recipes and shopping lists for the past two weeks, which in turn meant we tried several new dishes, some of which were keepers.
Still white-knuckling my way through this...
Terry
