Archive for the ‘Ten Minute Toss Challenge’ Category:
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing old linens, towels, pillow cases, etc. from your linen closet! Spring is just a few weeks away, it’s time to get a ten minute jump on that cleaning and organizing! Do you have old linens with holes, bedding that fits a bed you no longer own and are all your linens and towels jumbled together? Ten minutes is enough time to remove your stale linens and toss them in the wash, re-purpose them or donate to a local organization. This is also a good time to check out our resources page for help determining where to take your like-new items after all your spring cleaning is over and done with. Embrace today’s challenge and start your spring cleaning with your linen closet!
Ready, set, TOSS!
How to you keep your linen closet in order? We want to know!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing junk out of your car’s trunk! Do you have old mail, grocery bags you’ve been meaning to recycle, or who knows what else lurking in your trunk? Maybe you have blankets or sports gear back there that needs to come inside? Ten minutes is enough time to remove garbage, mail, bags or items you’ve been meaning to move into your home. This is also a good time to make sure you trunk has what it needs, like a car emergency kit. You can check out tips in our previous blog post Making an Emergency Kit. Embrace today’s challenge and clean out your car’s trunk!
Ready, set, TOSS!
How to you keep your car’s trunk in order? We want to know!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing your virtual subscriptions and make some room in that inbox! Are you receiving eMagazines or eCatalogues that you no longer value? Emails from an organization that you are no longer interested in? Virtual periodicals that are no longer relevant to you? Weekly virtual advertisements from all the stores in town? Ten minutes is enough time to unsubscribe from an email list (or two, or several!) you don’t read material from. Embrace today’s challenge and reduce the volume of virtual clutter coming into your home or office inbox!
Ready, set, TOSS!
What steps have you taken unsubscribe from email lists? We want to know!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing unrelated items out of your pencil drawer. Ten minutes is enough time to rid your pencil drawer of dried up bottles of adhesive, pens without ink, misshapen beyond repair paperclips and old smashed snacks hiding in the back. Leave only what you need and use often, embrace today’s challenge and reduce the amount of junk in your pencil drawer!
Ready, set, TOSS!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing or shredding old papers with your personal or otherwise sensitive information. Do you have overflowing boxes of paperwork to be shredded? Ten minutes is enough time to shred through your piles or sort your old mail that may have information like bank accounts or your social security number. Embrace our challenge this week and reduce the amount of sensitive data that needs to be destroyed!
Ready, set, TOSS!
How do you dispose of your sensitive information? We want to know!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing items from your kitchen utensil drawer. Do you have an overflowing kitchen utensil drawer in your home or office communal kitchen? Ten minutes is enough time to toss broken or badly damaged/stained items and to collect ones you either don’t use or have multiples of to donate. Embrace our challenge this week and reduce the amount of useless utensils in your kitchen!
Ready, set, TOSS!
How do you organize your kitchen utensils? We want to know!
Thanks to Simply Placed community member, Jackie Dales, for the great idea for today’s challenge. If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing your useless subscriptions and go paperless! Are you recieving magazines or catalogues that you no longer value? Mailings from an organization that you are no longer interested in? Periodicals that are no longer relevant to you? Paper copies of bills, statements and advertisements? Ten minutes is enough time to unsubscribe from a physical mailing list you don’t read material from and/or change your bill or statement status from ‘paper’ to ‘paperless’ . Check our previsou blog post about ways to eliminate junk mail for more ideas. Embrace today’s challenge and reduce the volume of paper coming into your home or office!
Ready, set, TOSS!
What steps have you taken to go paperless? We want to know!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing items off your computer desktop. Ten minutes is plenty of time to remove old shortcut icons you no longer use, organize documents into easy-to-locate folders and sort or arrange your icons into a system that makes sense. Take back the desktop and make it functional once again by taking this opportunity to embrace our challenge! Tell us how it went!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
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Many of us are lovers, keepers and collectors of books. Have you run out of room and are ready to let go of some? We have three ideas that can help and you’ll finally clear out that bookshelf with our Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge!
1. Sell your books online. All of us have experienced disappointment at a second-hand book store. After you drive there and wait for your book to be inspected for value you find that you are offered absolutely nothing for your treasured novel. We’ve found a website that will save you the hassle and allow you to sell your old novels from home! Cash4Books lets you see what your books are worth and what I like about this is you can check the ISBN numbers from home without having to lug your books somewhere.
They pay the shipping (you print the label they provide). They also have an iPhone and android app where you can use a scanner and scan your bar codes for the ISBN number. There is a good page with examples of types of books they look for and accept. Here is a “how to” video page, and an excellent FAQ page for beginners.
2. Sell your valuable collectible books. A great starting point is the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA). Do you have antique or collectible books you would rather sell than have sitting around your home collecting dust? Maybe you know someone looking for a great resource for collectible books? To get the association’s free directory of 466 booksellers, call (212) 944-8291 or visit them at www.abaa.org.
3. Donate your old books to the local library. If you’re feeling charitable or maybe your favorite titles are not in demand with local second-hand book buyers, try donating to your local public library. First, call the library to ensure they are accepting donations – sometimes their shelves are “full” and they turn them away for a period of time.
Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend ten minutes clearing out a book-stuffed book shelf. Ten minutes is enough time to sort and organize your books into sell, donate, keep and collectible piles. Heavy books can weigh down a shelf, keep your bookcase looking good and remove your unwanted books!
If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
Take our challenge now and then tell us how you did!
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This is the third post in our series about goal setting success for your New Year’s resolutions. Its also tied in to our Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge. Double dip!
Our second tip was about visualizing success. The road to achieving your goals can be a long journey, especially if you have big goals. In Goal Setting Success for the New Year: Visualize we suggested visualizing your success. Today, we’re sharing tips on how to narrow down your list of goals and focus on specific ones that will make the biggest difference to your work or life right now.
Tip #3 Focus – Its great to keep a Master Goal List so that you don’t forget all of your ideas and things you’d like to accomplish someday, but pick one or two to work on at a time. Think about shorter-term goals. For many people, making a resolution for the whole year is too difficult. Focus on re-wording your goal so that you can accomplish (and celebrate) it in parts, if needed.
Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend ten minutes tossing lofty, or outdated goals off your resolution list. Also take this opportunity to cull your list of “other people’s goals” or “shoulds”. Bring that list down to goals that are important to you right now, that you really WANT to accomplish (for you, not for anyone else), and that you look forward to spending your energy on this year. Ten minutes is enough time to remove goals from last year that you already accomplished, or that you’ve decided not to pursue, or take off any goals you don’t think about often or that aren’t relevant. Focus on just a few goals or make short term goals to be more successful this year.
Take our challenge now and tell us how it went! If you have ideas for a Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge, please let us know! In the meantime, check back weekly for a new challenge and make sure to join in the fun. We look forward to hearing about how you do with the challenges.
