Mums get organised in 2013

LiveLoveLaugh

Island_mum wrote: »

LiveLoveLaugh I'm wondering whether you or anybody else with more than one child can give me a little advice?

I need to sort out DD's toys and, as we do hope to have another one day, I'm wondering how much is worth keeping? I have the attic space to store it but does a second child play with toys their sibling is playing with or are the age appropriate toys worth hanging on to?

Am trying to have a major clear out after experiencing just how many presents children receive lol

I agree with chickywiggle, we kept a lot of our first son's educational toys and tbh they were hardly touched by DS2, he thinks its great to go and try and take whatever DS1 is playing with much to DS1's annoyance, lol. Plus he got a lot of his own new toys that were similar bought by family and friends and so I ended up with a lot of toys that all did very similar things, when DS1 is at school he does play with the other things more though so I would just keep a few that were well liked. I am now just getting round to getting rid of the things that haven't been played with for a loooong time.....Also agree with chickywiggle about when you want to get rid of them it is their favourite toy.....we have a playroom and it is jam packed, tried to have a clear out before DS1's birthday in November and he wasn't having any of it.....I've set a new rule for myself if they don't play with it in the next 12 months its going, and I think I'm probably being too generous there?!

chickywiggle

LiveLoveLaugh wrote: »

.....Also agree with chickywiggle about when you want to get rid of them it is their favourite toy.....we have a playroom and it is jam packed, tried to have a clear out before DS1's birthday in November and he wasn't having any of it.....I've set a new rule for myself if they don't play with it in the next 12 months its going, and I think I'm probably being too generous there?!

i gradually hid a box at a time in my 'sale' box then asked the person buying to come when I knew they would be out or in bed this time.........got rid of 6 pampers nappy boxes of toys and books.


very unproductive day here so far - I MUST get more motivated.
Have made the banana bread and butter pudding tho and it is AMAZING!!

Peanut2013

• Tidy and Hoover master bedroom
• Tidy, dust and Hoover spare room
• Organise pile of paperwork in spare room
• Paint mural in nursery
• Purchase storage chest from Dunelm Mill for babies snow suits and outdoor clothing (to free up room in nursery) Planned for Monday
• Tidy under the stairs to fit said storage case
• Do pile of ironing
• Tidy front room and put all presents away
[STRIKE]• Take down Christmas decs
• Put Christmas tree in back garden as its still fully alive!
• Organise Christmas cards to keep special ones and recycle rest
• Print photo's to finally fill frames that have been sat on the side since we moved in March, lol.[/STRIKE]
• Go to city centre to buy certain items for hospital bag Planned for Tuesday AM
• Pack said hospital bag!!! Planned for Tuesday PM

And now to put my feet up as my back hurts, lol.

mummystar

Hey everyone
Well to say I'm taking it slow would be an understatement!

I've managed to complete a total of two things - sort out my emails (sounds small but one of my accounts had about 3000 emails to delete or file...) and I've de-cluttered one shelf of a book shelf in my living room and started on another.

On a positive note, the school uniform is already for tomorrow's school and I'm about to pay school dinner money for the week. Clothes bought yesterday in the sale are away already - normally it takes a few days for me to find some spare hangers!

Baby steps I think is the way forward...next thing is to create my list and break it up into bits.

I keep looking in The Works for Organised Mum diaries but haven't found one yet - anyone else had any joy?

Hope everyone's had a good weekend

L

mysk_girl

1/ clear bookcase in living room
3/ clean bathroom
4/ tax return
[STRIKE]5/ filing[/STRIKE]
9/ hang picture
11/ Laura's cushion
12/ mend trousers/purse/gloves
13/ order embroidery hoops
14/ iron and hang bunting
[STRIKE]15/ laundry - as ever![/STRIKE]
16/ clear small table in living room and file magazines
18/ sort Welsh dresser contents
19/ playroom declutter
[STRIKE]20/ sort baby's room out
21/ HOOVER[/STRIKE]
22/ clean fridge
23/ photos for clock
24/ photobooks
[STRIKE]25/ make bicycle model for school homework[/STRIKE]
26/ declutter dining room
27/ write down crochet pattern that I was imagining during the 4am feed
28/ write to HR about mistake in mat pay
29/ declutter emails
30/ print 31 copies of fee increase letter
31/ baby boy clothes sort out

Not the most productive, but the main things are - I found my UTR so can now do my tax return and avoid the penalty. And <drum roll> I SAW THE BOTTOM OF THR LAUNDRY BASKET!

This is a big deal, in case you hadn't guessed!

We have one more day off before school on Tuesday, going to chill and have fun tomorrow, be back on Tuesday, folks...

A

bay-tree-cottage

Wow you lot put me to shame, your all so busy.
Mind if I join you?
I am more of a lurker than a poster so maybe it's time for a change.
I might make more progress lol x btc

julie2710

Ok so I am still managing to keep the shower lovely and shiny

Today I have taken down all the Christmas decorations and put them in the loft. The tree is out the front of the house ready to put out with the garden waste in Weds for collection.

Have done one load of washing, hoovered all through the house. Tidied DS1s clothes drawer. More importantly sorted out what money I have left for the rest of the month. Wrote cheques and actually put in the post rather than leave them on the passenger seat of my car for a week:o

kingfisherblue

Hi everyone and welcome to our new members onto the thread

Shegirl, you are welcome to PM me anytime and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I know how hard it is with a disabled child, alkthough my son doesn't have autism. My friend has a severely autistic child, though, who sounds very much like you son in some ways. Sometimes just having a moan or a rant can help to relieve a bit of stress, even if it doesn't actually improve things overall. So I would like to offer you the hand of cyberfriendship, if such a word exists

Some of you seem to be keeping up with everything quite well. Unfortunately I am not one of them . I have done very little today, just the essentails really. But never mind, tomorrow is another day, and the kids are back at school . Hopefully I can get a bit more done this week, but I must admit I'm not feeling very motivated at the moment. Time to give myself a serious talking to, I think

taffy1969

Evening all!!!

Not doing too bad, but could do better! This is what I've done today:
Empty Dishwasher
Hoovered upstairs
Went to Asda for 6 things, spent £50!!!!! Did get some containers for my hm soup though!!
Put shopping away
Put nit stuff on girls hair and sorted that (fed up with it but hopefully they are completely clear now but have a back up bottle just in case! Wish other parents would sort their kids out!!)
Sorted cupboard understairs apart from 3 carrier bags of papers and filing cabinet!!!
Started sorting friends money for banking
Started 1 set of minutes

Not too bad I suppose! Yesterday was very proud of myself. Binmen came and I always put my bin out the back which is emptied about 7am. Got the bin in, filled up with 2 black sacks I had over plus carp from both girls bedrooms and a quick shifty round downstairs and filled it again and put out the front!!!!! Was a bit worried they wouldn't take it but they did, was well chuffed!!

Will post my list for this week later on. Hope you all have a good Monday, I'm back to work tomorrow since 21st December!!!!!!

Peanut2013

Mysk: Whats the bottom of a washing basket? Lol. I don't even have and Little Ones yet and I rarely see ours!