I’ve got 31 days to get a grip, sort everything out get
organised once and for all, because if, after these 31 days are up, I am not
organised I might as well just give up and admit it: I will NEVER be organised.
Why only 31 days? Well we’ve all got to have deadlines and
because October is my birth month it seemed like a good idea at the time. This
October I will be 46.
There I have said it.
FORTY SIX.
No longer in the first bloom of youth.
I can’t deny it I am a grown up and probably closer to death
than I will ever be again to my birth. It is time to get things organised and if
I can get my 46 year old life sorted at the same time then that will be no bad
thing.
I need to get my head round a few problems
So I will sort out the easiest one first - all that
paperwork.
Oh God there is SO much of it.
Bills and invoices, advice notices and iddy biddy bits of
paper all over the place. Stuffed in draws hastily packed in boxes, ‘filed’ or
not as the case maybe and the majority I bet not even important but I won’t
know that until I have sorted it all out.
I have a fear of losing important things and so rarely throw
anything out and because I put things back in random places I lose bits of
things then panic when I find the other bit that I must keep it because I don’t
know if I chucked the other bit out.
I suspect there are bits of things awaiting their other bits
in disparate places all over my home and as you know it is rather large.
How did I get into this mess? Well I first joined it with someone
else’s mess and they left it to me to sort out, only thing is I don’t know,
without their help, what I should or should not keep. We are talking about bits
of paper that go back 25 years! The countless bits of paper guarantees for all
those electrical items which you may or may not still own that’s if they are
not broke beyond all repair,
Do we really need to keep them all ?
I know there are the bits and pieces one keeps for
sentimental reasons like the dossier you have on the buying of your first flat,
car, garden shed but for some people sentiment is a load of tosh for others it
is social history in the making.
Somehow I need to strike a balance between interesting and important.
There’s no point diving through another's paperwork without at least finding
some secrets or insights…
Do you think I’ll make it or am I doomed to a disorganised
life?
