The best thing about a to-do-list is that writing a job down is productive in itself. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment when a chore is out of my head and in black and white, so much so that I can then forget about it for a few days… weeks…..months.

The problem with such lists however, is that most household jobs dont stand alone do they? Everything is connected. For example, I need to hang the washing out, this cannot be done until the baby is either A. asleep (pfft) or B safely occupied: In order for said baby to be safely occupied I need to sort out the wires from the Television. We recently had it put on the wall and there is now a copious amount of leads within the reach of small arms. In order to sort these leads, a shelf needs to be put on the wall for the digital box and the DVD player. Do you see where Im going?? The list is pretty darn long having said that, its very satisfying when you can scrub off 6 items on the to-do-list in one go.

In our previous house I had a pretty awesome board in our kitchen for all those little things that I needed to remember. We (meaning my husband) painted the larder door with blackboard paint. 

This was also a fantastic way of reducing (outward) family conflict, not only do you ensure you never run out of loo paper (shopping list section). You can leave passive aggressive notes for your loved ones ‘Tidy your bedroom’, ‘put up shelves’ etc

Unfortunately no such board exists in our new house and we dont have a larder. We have taken to writing sticky notes and leaving them around the kitchen.

These notes waft around every time someone enters the room, Im pretty sure the shopping list is down the side of the dishwasher at the moment. I have however, purchased some funky pink chalk paint for my office wall.

 

Just need to write a post it

and while I have the pad

(I got hungry at 10pm last night and ate six petit filous)

Not on the high street is my favourite on-line shop at the mo. not least because they have a solution to the odd sock problem……

………but they also have some great notice boards for those all-important lists……. (Just don’t forget to write a passive aggressive post it for the other half, telling them to ‘put notice board on wall’ – of course, if you’re sensible, you’ll just add it to your own to-do-list….. I however, cant put up the notice board until I have hung out the washing………… humph…..