ICJump, thanks for the heads up on that. I saw that thread in week one but had too much going on to join in. I am usually an all or nothing person which means I usually fall at the first hurdle. I have realised I need to change things slow and steady, which should have a higher chance of changes sticking! Therefore you would imagine that thread is perfect for me. The risk is that I am already addicted to mn and putting myself on another thread like that is another excuse to "just have a quick look". I really need to have a ban on picking my phone up between the hours of x&x.
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No I haven't been carrying mine around with me. I don't feel there is enough in it yet. On a work day, I won't get anything else done outside the house apart from the taxi-ing to clubs for the children. They are so routine now, I dont need to write them down. I realised during the week that I already kinda do a bullet journal at work by writing to do's on my diary page for that day/week or even months ahead if it is relevant. I still had precious scraps of paper floating about, so this week i have been more mindful of making those notes in my diary look like the bullet journal method.
At home, it really is still a baby bullet journal. I have so much floating in my head, I first got an old notebook and wrote everything that was in my head. What I need to do, what I would like to do, important dates, things I need to buy, a list I feel would be useful in the journal etc. It was all such a scramble in my head I just had to scribble it on paper first before I could put it in order. I haven't got it all on paper just yet, but its a work in progress. I then transferred it into the bullet journal in an orderly fashion.
As time goes on, I imagine if I am going out and about, I will bring it with me. For eg yesterday I saw some lovely curtains that would suit once I have painted a room in my house. I left them even though they were a bargain as I have no idea what the dimensions of the window are. Long term I would like to have that kind of detail in my journal so I could whip it out of my bag and just "ta da" I need this size for my window. Equally, if I was out shopping, I could look and see whose birthday is coming up and buy something appropriate rather than scrabbling around going shopping specifically at the last minute.
Buying lightbulbs is also another cause of unnecessary stress in this house. I remember the days when you only had to know how bright you wanted the bulb eg a 40w bulb. Simple as. Nowadays there are so many different types of bulb I stand in the aisle with the old bulb in my hand with a rabbit in headlights expression on my face. But of course you need to remember to take the bulb with you in the first place. I want a list of the right bulb for every fitting in the house. I then intend to buy one spare for each of the essential lights. As a bulb blows I know I just need to add "bulb" to my shopping list, and whip my book out when in the shop, rather than trying to remember to put the bulb in my bag etc. We recently spent a week without any light in the bathroom as I couldn't get to a shop sooner than that. Every time I went to the bathroom I would have that "argh-lightbulb!" thought. That negativity really adds up when you are juggling lots of things and just adds to my sense of failure.
This may all sound really rambly but that is how my head is. There are way more important things going on in my life than curtains and lightbulbs. I think by sorting these easy, relatively minor things, I will be better able to cope with the bigger things and not always be frazzled with really important scraps of paper all over the place.
Time will tell. 