Wipe down your return air vent and change the filter if needed.

Go through your medicine cabinet and throw anything old out.

Wash the pollen off patio table.

Take down anything outdated on the family bulletin board.

Sweep off the front porch or the deck.

Wash a window or two each day until they are all done.

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Open your mail close to where it can be dealt with the first time: for example – unwanted brochures and junk mail, straight into recycling, bills into your accordian file/handbag/diary, postcards straight up on the ‘fridge, documents straight into the filing cabinet. Try to handle only once.

Keep you shopping list up-to-date, either on your ‘fridge, via a magnetic list, or in your diary. I usually pick Thursdays for writing up my shopping list, and pile in the information all through the week onto that one page.

Detail what you are going to do tomorrow. Use your diary. Don’t overwhelm yourself. Just pick a very loose ten things, giving yourself plenty of time in which to do them. Make three of them major, but set a half hour time limit, three medium, with a fifteen minute time limit, and three minor with a five minute time limit. The last one is a bonus one that you use for you as a reward. Don’t make it chocolate! A few minutes break doing something you’ve been putting off rewarding yourself with. For some people, it may be a spot of gardening. For others, catching up with a crossword puzzle or a magazine article. Or you may wish to go mad and beat up a punching bag!

Go get the cobwebs in your house. Nothing says “unkempt” quite as much as these otherwise graceful grey ghosts draping under your ceiling. Make sure that you do your bathroom last, in case the ceiling is damp. You don’t want to put damp and dirty marks all over your other ceilings!

Tidy a shelf. Videos, DVDs, books, cassette tapes.