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Post by Rosebud on Jun 30, 2008 4:13:42 GMT -5
This is the Working in Threes Thread (W.I.T.)
EVERYONE IS WELCOME, especially if you've never posted before!
The guidelines are simple:
- Do some little thing to make your house less squalorous.
- Do one more little thing.
- Do another little thing. Once you have 3 things done, post them here.- Post the next 3 things you plan on doing. - Go forth and conquer, return and post again. [/color] Remember - if you are tired or sick or injured or
depressed or overwhelmed, you are in the right place!
If the next 15 minutes consists of:
- Looked at hopeless living room and felt like crying
- Decided you could take empty pop can to kitchen
- Put away phone book
- Picked up fast food wrappers on coffee table and put them in trash
. . . YOU HAVE ACHIEVED THREE - DOM !!!
You could post:
Ta - Da's
- Took pop can to kitchen
- Put away phone book
- Threw away McDonald's wrappers
Then your To - Do's:
- Bring plates and glasses to kitchen
- Put dirty socks in hamper
- Bring folded towels to linen closet and put away.
Whether you do those three to-do's, or something completely different, once you've gotten 3, come back and post.
Remember to take breaks and drink water. Drinking water counts as a Ta-da!
If you can notice what the person before you did, it might cheer them up to hear from you. Go forth, have fun, and be generous to yourself with the Ta-das.
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Post by merrymaid on Jun 30, 2008 7:04:01 GMT -5
Good Morning Rosebud  Hope you are having a wonderful morning. Thank you for starting the tread. I woke up in a good mood. The sun is shining, but it's cool for a change! Tadas:  Recycled laundry Made coffee / tea Swished and swiped toilet and emptied trash Made bed  Call my Mom Get dressed, and dd dressed Vacuum floors |
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Post by merrymaid on Jun 30, 2008 7:56:21 GMT -5
Tadas: Call my Mom Loaded dishwasher and wiped down counters Vacuum floors Todos: Get dressed Recycle laundry Do one thing in the mudroom |
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Post by hatdiva on Jun 30, 2008 8:10:11 GMT -5
Good morning! Here I go in another attempt to reclaim territory after 3 days of running out the door or focusing on other priorities. Someday I'll learn how to prevent this kind of disaster but for today I am headed back into the belly of the beast. I'm mostly a morning person but I don't have the stamina to keep up all morning so I'm going to try to get in the habit of doing more small things throughout the day. I'm going to try again to remember to pick up and put away throughout the day with every trip to another room. Tri-levels are a trial for anyone with bad knees and Fibro, so I'm going to work on being more efficient with every trip. Trying to figure out how to make progress here and still get to the gym 3 times a week. Energy has to be managed. Here we go... TO DA'S Garbage and recycle to curb Put away shop and drop Got laundry from basement dishes picked up in fam rm dw unloaded, loaded and running collection of 'stuff' taken to basement folded laundry and sorted ironing washed 3 lg pots counters cleared and cleaned too many phone calls  |
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Post by Carrie on Jun 30, 2008 8:18:58 GMT -5
Hey, those check-off boxes are too cool!! How do you do them?? Anyway here are my first 3 to-do's for the morning:
1) Scoop Cat Boxes
2) Fresh food & water to cats
3) Finish dishes
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Post by merrymaid on Jun 30, 2008 8:40:22 GMT -5
Good Morning Hatdiva- Good job at getting started today. Your plan of working a bit through out the day, sounds like a good one. Carrie7on- Welcome to WI3's. I hope you enjoy it here. The boxes are cool, aren't they?! They're super easy to. On the left side of your screen, you'll see a box that says Select Smiley. Pull that list down and click on checkbox done. You'll see the check. Click on the image and it will put the code in your post. Do the same for To do. All the bottom of the box, you will see View all smilies. If you click that, you can see all the ones that are available, the boxes included. You can click on the image there and it will put it in your message, also. Hope this helps Tadas: Get dressed Recycle laundry Do one thing in the mudroom. Moved bike rack to the spare room. Poor room of doom, is going to be completely full before I finish the rest of the house!!Todos: Do one thing in the mudroom. Read to DD. Eat lunch and tidy kitchen. |
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Post by Carrie on Jun 30, 2008 8:55:49 GMT -5
Wow, merrymaid & hatdiva - you've gotten a lot done already!! Thanks for the tips merrymaid, I will try it on my next post. I'm going to try to stay on this working in 3's routine for most of the day. I would like to see a visible improvement by the end of the day! Thanks for being here!
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Post by Carrie on Jun 30, 2008 9:10:15 GMT -5
First accomplishments of the day:
TaDa!!!!!
1) Scooped cat boxes
2) Fresh food & water to cats
*also wiped down feeding mat and washed out water dishes
3) Finished dishes
To Do:
1) Eat banana, drink tea
2) Do 20 mins on treadmill
3) Shower & dress
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Post by syzygy on Jun 30, 2008 10:07:47 GMT -5
You guys are already making a lot of progress!
Ok, I'm up and moving.
Ta dah
* Breakfast and wash dishes
* Cats fed
* Scooooop!
Today
* Call again to deal with important problem
* Laundry
* Project work
* Shower
* More work on computer stuff
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Post by merrymaid on Jun 30, 2008 10:16:25 GMT -5
Well done, Carrie7on, getting the cats boxes sorted and fed! My tadas: Do one thing in the mudroom. Took out the two bags of trash, I put there this morning and moved the coffee pot to the laundry room. While in the laundry room, I moved two blankets to my bedroom linen closet. Read to DD. We just started, The Happy Prince and other Stories by Oscar Wilde. I hadn't realized he wrote children's stories. The Happy Prince was really good. Eat lunch and tidy kitchen. Todos: Do one more thing in the mudroom. Recycle laundry. Check mail and sort junk. |
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Post by Carrie on Jun 30, 2008 11:02:19 GMT -5
Excellent syzygy and merrymaid!! I didn't realize Oscar Wilde wrote children's stories either! Cool! Ta Da!! Ate banana, drank tea Slogged through 20 mins on treadmill Showered and dressed To Do: Put away laundry that's sitting in living room Take snow shovels (  ) and other stuff to shed Sort out books on and next to hope chest |
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Post by hypatia on Jun 30, 2008 11:11:00 GMT -5
Good morning all!
Ta das:
- up
- drank some caffeine to convince my brain that my body is awake
- breakfast for me and the kids
To do:
- switch over laundry
- unload dishwasher
- reload dishwasher
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Post by WestsideStory on Jun 30, 2008 11:19:16 GMT -5
Good morning, all. Good work, all!
Hypatia, got any left-over coffee to send down here?
TADAs:
1. Up/meds
2. Lots of time checking out other boards here. Putting my 2 cents in on the Finances etc., thread.
3. Trying to plan my day -- not enthusiastic about any of the clutter challenges still left. Sigh.
TODOs:
round one
1. Breakfast/make bed/dress
2. Put thrift store donations in central place so I will remember to take them out today
3. Put three more things in thrift store box
'Later!
WestsideStory
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Post by syzygy on Jun 30, 2008 11:26:15 GMT -5
Some days it's tough to do "to do"s- so far, I've been moving from one new problem to the next. Ta dah * Cleaned up from last night * Gathered laundry so I can do it tonight * The backup drive started whirring- not a good sign. * Found warranty- it's for 3 years! * Found receipt eventually- the drive is 4 years old  * Scanned prices and reviews of new external drives * Prepped for new month stuff tomorrow To do... let's see how it goes |
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Post by bluefrog on Jun 30, 2008 11:35:49 GMT -5
Congrats, everybody, on getting so much done this morning! Me, not so much:
DONE:
-made the bed
-took dog to vet (scratched cornea--painful, but easy to fix. The pup's on pain meds, and feeling MUCH better. She won't be happy when I have to give her antibiotics later, though)
-ate breakfast
-took morning meds myself
TO DO:
-fold and put away sheets (from yesterday)
-empty the dishwasher
-do something about lunch
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