Specifically, I have too many financial accounts. Keeping track of everything is stressful. For example, I almost paid another annual fee on a credit card I intended to cancel. Just by chance I remembered to look up the anniversary date, and it happened to be the very next day. That would have been a $95 mistake. Account canceled!
I also need to get rid of some material things. Since we moved two years ago, the laundry room has been so full of stuff that, in order to access the back of the room I would have to spend several minutes moving things around just to get to it. We aren't finished, but I did make more room by eliminating a set of shelves on one wall and taking my former roommate's bicycle to her new place.
What's Next?
I have big plans for March. Earlier in February we worked on a vacant property in Birmingham. I spent so much time looking for tools and supplies that I realized I needed to be better organized. I bought several storage containers that were on clearance at Staples. I was using deep file boxes for everything, and I will replace them with several smaller containers that will be labeled with the contents in each container. I also want to get rid of some of the gas cans in the laundry room. Since I no longer do the massive amount of mystery shopping I used to do, I don't need the equivalent of 80 gallons of storage for the free gas I was getting.
I also want to crank up the remodeling of our house. We finally removed the old steel bathtub in the guest bathroom. Demolition is 95% done in that room. It's time to make this house our home, even if it means bringing in contractors instead of doing everything myself.
