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The Friday 5ives: 5 two-minute tasks

20 04 07 - 15:03 - Bookmark this post

Every friday I present to you The Friday 5ives. Around one central theme I give five tips. tweaks, moments, pointers, anything. Really short but I hope really helpfull. The past Friday 5ives can be found on this tag-page. I am experiencing some difficulties with the tags so they give some errors. It's on my Action-list to resolve!

This friday, I present to you five tasks you really can do in two minutes. So why not do them right away?

1. Clean up the coffeetable. In our house, the coffeetable is the centre of our domestic universe. After a long day, it's full with mail, leaflets, toys, coins, loose papers, anything. But just a quick sweep in two minutes and it's clean again. Just pick up every item and put it back where it belongs. Things that should go upstairs, I just put them on our stairway and next time someone goes up, it goes with it.
2. Make an appointment. You have been waiting and waiting for making that one appointment with the hairdresser, the vet, or a company you have an annual servicecontract with. Just call them, make the appointment and be done with it
3. Quickclean your Inbox. Especially in Gmail this works so fast. In your Inbox, just select the messages you really don't care about and throw them out. Don't bother reading them, delete! Or take one of your archive folders and clean it.
4. Plastic bags. My kitchencabinet gets filled with plastic bags from shoppingtrips (yes, errands...) so just in two minutes, I select the ones that I can throw away (old, broken, not firm enough) and keep the ones that come in handy for a next shoppingtrip. So I can tone down on getting more plastic in my house.
5. Sort your magazines. Take a big pile of your magazines and go through them. Throw out the ones you don't want to read, have already read or are just too old. Keep the ones you intend to read. But make sure you don't start reading. Because you will end up taking more than two minutes!

Do you have some ideas for a theme on The Friday 5ives? Let me know in the comments!

This Friday 5ives is inspired by a Dutch article on two-minutes-tasks. The picture is courtesy of laffy4k

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Ian McKenzie - 20 04 07 - 17:00

you can make yout bed too, or put your on your laundry machine :)
Pedro Villalobos - 21 04 07 - 01:24

ops… yout clothes
Pedro Villalobos - 21 04 07 - 01:25