When "Rajin-ness" Strikes
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM in MyMe
I finally made/found time (lepas dah berbulan kat rumah!) And oh, also folders, training materials, technical manuals. Ugh. Berkotak-kotak jumlahnya. I wanted to sell them off to the old newspaper man, but he didn’t want to take them. Cis. So, apart from getting famyBoy to recycle whatever possible, I decided to donate the old magazines to the mommies of Salaam Wanita for them to use to make hand-woven baskets. I won one of those baskets in a lucky draw sometime ago. Really pretty craftmanship, and made only from recycled magazine pages!
While I was on a cleaning spree, I decided to attack the kitchen cabinets as well. I have this one 'gerobok' cabinet which was a very convenient place to keep almost everything, from extra plates, cups and saucers, tupperwares, cereal, pasta pelbagai, a bottle of Horlicks, Milo 3-in-1 packets, a tin of Birds’ cornstarch, Quaker oats, cocoa powder, some instant noodles, jelly mixes, various types of spices (bottled ones, packaged ones)… you name it.
First I took out all the plastic containers and/or tupperwares (yang bermacam warna tu) and their covers/lids. As (un)expected, the numbers of containers vs. lids do not match. I had more lids than containers. Aik?? And even worse, some of the lids do not fit their supposedly correct containers. Cemana tuh?? And to think that I’ve been keeping and storing them in my cupboard all these times. Konon-kononnya, senang nanti bila nak pack food, kalau simpan bebanyak camtu. *slaps forehead*
Then I removed the non-perishables and checked the expiry dates on each of the items. Soooo much stuff!! Some items I don’t even remember buying. Suffice to say, after all the identifying and sorting and throwing out, I managed to fill up an entire beg sampah hitam. Sungguh puas rasa hatiku.
Anyways…
I forgot (and didn’t bother to remember) to take the 'Before' declutter, sort & arrange pictures. But I'm glad I didn't, coz it would’ve been an embarrassment to all at-home mommies and (self-proclaimed) goddesses everywhere! *blush*
But looky, looky!! Look at the final outcome. Not too bad, eh? Everything has been arranged neatly, grouped by usage and type. I even went a step further to label the jars and containers with their expiry dates accordingly. Ms. M@rtha would’ve been proud of me. Hee hee hee.
The real reason for taking pictures of the now tidy gerobok was to make sure I remember how it looked like (when it was spanking neat) in case I happened to mess it up again in future. At least I’d have a baseline to refer to. But so far, things are looking pretty good. Almost a month now, and my gerobok is as tidy and organized as it was 3+ weeks ago. *pats self on back*
Upcoming goddessy projects:
0. Kemas store bawah tangga; deadline: TBD
1. Sort kids' old clothes & books; deadline: TBD
2. Go through old photo albums, sort and file all unfiled photographs; deadline: TBD
Gosh! Still a long way to go and so much to do. I think I'll start by thinking of reasonable (and achievable) deadlines first. *grins*
Oh, by the way, I am down to <50 blog alerts to read (from 600+ alerts before!). A big accomplishment for someone who is rarely online. :)
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