Good evening (or morning!) all!
Some basic introductions to start things off: I'm Lizzie, live in Australia with DH and three kids (11 - autistic, 9½ and 8). I'm a long time enthusiastic creator and user (sometimes) of the Household Notebook/Home Management Binder/Control Journal. Lately however I've been slacking off in that as well and I'm feeling a bit - what's the word? - restricted by a large binder. Something like that. At any rate, being a past Flybaby I'd heard about the SHE system so decided to order the book online. Long story short, my order got cancelled (wasn't through Amazon) due to not enough stock. Darn. Have decided to jump in anyway. This will either work or it won't - I'm sure the kids will find something creative to do with the coloured cards, LOL.
I'm a very hands-on person. I need the tactile experience of flipping a page/card. Something about it concreting it as 'done' in my brain perhaps? I got an iPod Touch for Xmas and have been going crazy downloading apps for it - anything remotely related to to-do lists, productivity, timetabling, you name it - but it's not the same.
Also a huge fan of morning, afternoon and evening routines. I don't homeschool (not all that popular down here in Oz - nothing like the States anyway) and I'm a SAHM, so I have these hours of 'free time' (ha!) during the day and I don't feel as if I'm achieving anything at all at the end of it. And yes, I have a lazy - gasp! - tendency or three to contend with as well. Husband works shiftwork in the community services field, in a high stress job. Don't always feel as though I create enough of a haven for him here when he gets home. Our main bedroom is absolutely atrocious - easily the worst clutter magnet in the entire house. Not good.
I'm constantly without clean clothes or socks (times all 5 of us), love the idea of menu planning but hardly ever follow through on a plan even if I write one up, can go months without mopping the floor, rarely eat at the self-appointed dinner hour because I don't plan ahead enough, don't exercise because I can't see how I can fit it in, don't read as much (spiritually or otherwise) as I'd like, don't sew even though I have an expensive, newish machine because I never seem to have time and so on. You see the problem here! I can write all these things down on pages in my HMB but I think I need to get 'bare bones' on the issue and go the 'one task per card' route for a while. So here i am!
HUGE fan of OrganizedHome.com and the Cut The Clutter book (here it's printed as Houseworks). Best organizing book I have.
I'll spend the next few days delving deeper into the board archives and I'm looking forward to cleaning info from you seasoned cardfilers (card fillies? LOL)
Cheers,
Lizzie