These aren't resolutions. Really.
January 04, 2013
After my not so stellar attempt at resolutions in 2012 I vowed I wasn’t going to make that same mistake again. Nope – I wasn’t going to make any sort of resolution or list or mental note or anything related to things I wanted to get done in 2013. And then I got an email on January 2nd.
Apparently sometime in December Apartment Therapy posted that they would be running what they’re calling the January Cure, and I signed up. With statements like: ‘If you are ready to whip your home into shape, get it clean, organized and under control, we're here to help - let's do it together! … we'll send you emails from January 2 through February 1, giving you all the info you need to know to follow along, stay motivated and complete your assignments. By the end of January, you'll be sitting pretty in a clean, fresh, organized home’ can you really blame me? I mean who doesn’t want to live in a clean and organised home? I certainly do.
Anyways, I signed up and then kinda forgot about it, that is until I got my first email about it on January 2nd. The task? Make a list of the things in each of the rooms in your home that you want to change. Drat. My not-making-any-resolutions-or-lists-in-2013 vow lasted about 30hrs into the New Year. Oh well. I’m a glutton for punishment so I made my list of things I wanted to change in each of the rooms in my home, and unsurprisingly discovered that quite a number of them are the same as what was on my list from last year. What’s a little different this time is I was supposed to keep the number of to-do items per room to 3-5 which forces you to prioritise what’s most important – the changes that will make the most impact. Here’s my list:
Foyer
- Organise front hall closet
- Organise linen closet
- Change overhead light
- Add a rug
- Organise closet
- Add window coverings
- Get two matching bedside tables
- Paint the walls
- Organise medicine cabinet and under the sink
- Replace the shower curtain rings
- Organise the bookshelf and media cabinet
- Add more lighting
- Get some more storage
- Add window coverings
- Paint the walls
- Organise my cabinets – make better use of limited space
- Paint the ceiling
- Update the lighting
- Remove the weird (ugly) wall organiser
- Repair walls and paint
- Get more storage
- Add window coverings
- Change the overhead light
If you’d like to join Apartment Therapy’s January Cure you can click here, and in case you want to know what you’re getting yourself in for, here’s a schedule of everything you’ll be asked to do.
PS – Yesterday’s task was to create an ‘outbox’. Mine’s done, and I’m hoping it will soon be overflowing.
1 comments
I'm following along with AT's January cure too. It's nice to get an external kick in the pants sometimes. Good luck!
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