to ask how you become organised and together? Seriously how??

[inatrance]

This is a question for any of you who used to be disorganised/flaky and are now organised and sorted. I have been like this for so long and I drive myself and everyone around me crackers. I'm unbelievably forgetful, I am late a lot and I'm rubbish with finances. I'm so fed up of cringing because I'm so bloody rubbish and make stupid mistakes all the time!

I've got an 8mth DS and a 10yo DD and while I've always had disorganised tendencies, since I had DS, it's gone from bad to ridiculous and I feel like I am constantly trying to catch up with myself.

I'm self employed (which is for the best as even I'd have sacked me by now) and have somehow managed to run my businesses haphazardly over the last ten years without fucking up too massively. Well, not often anyway...

Well, no more, I've had enough. I am using the New Year to kick me up the arse and I need your help.

If you used to be crap and are now brilliant and incredibly organised, please, please tell me how you did it. What changed in your mind and where the hell did you start?

[Mellifera]

Wow, took me days to read it all, and I've even taken some tips and put them into practice.
Organised my Tupperware/plastic crap cupboard yesterday. Kept only the containers that had lids, stacked them with their lids on and binned the rest.
It was strangely liberating.
For three years the door didn't shut properly most of the time, because it was just too full. Crazy.
Thank you to the poster who linked this thread from another thread.

Will tackle one cupboard/drawer per day now. And own a pocket calendar to arrange stuff whilst on the phone.

Good luck to all the declutterers, it is a good start into a new year.

[Candlefairy101]

I love reading old threads so much fab advice, I really do t understand why some people get their back up when we start talking on an old thread!

There's never too much advice for organisation

[BalloonSlayer]

Interesting advice from some people.

Personally I use a whistle to summon my DCs. They all have a different whistle call-sign so if one of them has failed to hang up their colour coded towel I can call them for punishment without disturbing the others from picking up their toys.