Wednesday saw me do absolutely nothing, which is okay because I did a bunch of things with some friends that I don't often get to see outside of the weekend.
20 (!) Points...
Thursday, however... oh boy. From 1600 to 2000 (that's 4-8pm for you non-24-hour-time folks) I was in my kitchen. OI's friend came over and we cleared off all the counters, then started taking things out of the cupboards above the counter. At least half of the coffee mugs were put into storage; three ended up in the trash owing to an accident breaking a few. I liked that big clay one, too. Many of the old drinking glasses were tossed because of cracks in the bottom. I remember we stopped using them because they would leak.
Half of the spices in the house are gone. Some of the jars will be recycled, some are being kept, but once a spice/herb smells like dust, it's time for it to go. I can always buy more, and they'll taste better.
We have two completely different tableware settings in the house. I moved the one we haven't used in years to the 'active' spot and put the others on the top shelf.
Anything that's worth keeping but we don't have room for has been put into storage. In my first post I linked the Ask.MetaFilter question I asked a couple months ago. I've adapted one of the suggestions to this: mugs and cups and silverware are put into boxes that are easily accessible int he storage area in the house. If we have need for more than eight place settings, we can pull them out. If a mug is broken, we can pull a new one out to replace it. If OI would rather have Mug X instead of Mug Y, he's welcome to swap them out. Every few months, we can change things up and use the other place settings. What's the use in having these pretty things if they can't be seen?!
The spices that are being kept still look a bit haphazard, but they're a lot more visible than before. Some of the ones I had I realized I have never used at all, which is sort of sad when I think about it. Hopefully this will give me the impetus to actually use more of them now!
OI got home late tonight. He was very surprised, and very tired from his trip -- I'll post his reactions tomorrow when I have the time. He agrees that there is a lot of work left to do but we have plenty of space to use to finish the job and I'm kind of looking forward to it in a sick, masochistic way.
Showing posts with label kitchenproject. Show all posts
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
SOGOtP, Day Zero
Here goes nothing.
I had a wild idea some time ago (right around the time I made this Ask.Me post) about setting up a points system to help me actually get things done around the house. This met with procrastinative success -- I conceived the idea in April, and I just today got it started. I'm using a few semi-modified ideas from that post's comments to get this done.
The OI is gone for about a week, and has zero knowledge of this project. I should have time to accomplish a great deal if I nut up and actually get things done instead of sitting on my ass. By the time OI returns, the house should look much cleaner and be a very nice surprise/welcome home present.
The Rules (such as they are):
I'm tracking the points progress through the calendar in the kitchen; every time I do something worthy of earning points, a hashmark goes on the calendar for the day. Certain things are worth more points, depending on how difficult or time-consuming they are and how much I loathe doing them. Some are worth more because they don't need to be done frequently, but when they are it's worth recognizing. Some are worth less because they should be done every day.
Day Zero:
1 Point: I put all the clean dishes in the kitchen away. In the future this will be rolled into doing the dishes themselves, because putting them away is sort of necessary. (I also did a tiny bit of tidying up that's not nearly worth a point.)
2 Points: Two loads of laundry. This includes folding and putting them away. It doesn't count if I sort of scrunch them up and stuff them into a drawer/closet/convenient corner -- they have to be put away. Gentle-cycle loads are smaller than normal loads, but end up being line-dried so count as a point even though there are fewer clothes.
I have a few large-scale projects that can be broken down into different parts. Cleaning up the kitchen is a good example; the first order of business will be taking the way-too-many coffee mugs, utensils, and drinking glasses, and putting a majority of them into storage, thus freeing up room to put other things away that right now have to sit on the counter or seriously clutter up the drawers/shelves. Each of these (mugs, glasses, utensils) count as their own point once they're put away, and contribute in the end to the completion of the Kitchen Project (which overall will be worth a ton of points).
Another future post will describe the projects including breakdowns of larger ones, and my reasons for their point values. I have no idea what these points will eventually be used for, except possibly a reward system of buying something I want but really do not need.
Shit or get off the pot.
I had a wild idea some time ago (right around the time I made this Ask.Me post) about setting up a points system to help me actually get things done around the house. This met with procrastinative success -- I conceived the idea in April, and I just today got it started. I'm using a few semi-modified ideas from that post's comments to get this done.
The OI is gone for about a week, and has zero knowledge of this project. I should have time to accomplish a great deal if I nut up and actually get things done instead of sitting on my ass. By the time OI returns, the house should look much cleaner and be a very nice surprise/welcome home present.
The Rules (such as they are):
I'm tracking the points progress through the calendar in the kitchen; every time I do something worthy of earning points, a hashmark goes on the calendar for the day. Certain things are worth more points, depending on how difficult or time-consuming they are and how much I loathe doing them. Some are worth more because they don't need to be done frequently, but when they are it's worth recognizing. Some are worth less because they should be done every day.
Day Zero:
1 Point: I put all the clean dishes in the kitchen away. In the future this will be rolled into doing the dishes themselves, because putting them away is sort of necessary. (I also did a tiny bit of tidying up that's not nearly worth a point.)
2 Points: Two loads of laundry. This includes folding and putting them away. It doesn't count if I sort of scrunch them up and stuff them into a drawer/closet/convenient corner -- they have to be put away. Gentle-cycle loads are smaller than normal loads, but end up being line-dried so count as a point even though there are fewer clothes.
I have a few large-scale projects that can be broken down into different parts. Cleaning up the kitchen is a good example; the first order of business will be taking the way-too-many coffee mugs, utensils, and drinking glasses, and putting a majority of them into storage, thus freeing up room to put other things away that right now have to sit on the counter or seriously clutter up the drawers/shelves. Each of these (mugs, glasses, utensils) count as their own point once they're put away, and contribute in the end to the completion of the Kitchen Project (which overall will be worth a ton of points).
Another future post will describe the projects including breakdowns of larger ones, and my reasons for their point values. I have no idea what these points will eventually be used for, except possibly a reward system of buying something I want but really do not need.
Shit or get off the pot.
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