How to keep your home tidy

This is probably an obvious one, but I only just realised how powerful this was they other day.

We often find ourselves in a mess and a lot of the time it comes down the fact that we don't have space to put things. So we tidy things and put them away, but we never have room to put more things. So what do you do. The most obvious answer is to get more storage or find more space.

Right?

No!

We've been doing this for sometime, we even boarded out the rest of our loft and got a bigger hatch and proper ladders. We got a shed the other year too. All of which are quite full.

The answer is to change your life style, don't hoard stuff.

Last weekend I was going through my shelves shreadding and putting paper in our recyle bin, it took me hours and I have nothing to show for it, I've got lots of piles of scrap paper though.

However, it was a start and I now feel a bit better that I did it. I feel now that I need to think carefully about anything I keep.

How useful will that be to me in the future, probably not at all!

What to work on when your baby sitting

I use the terms bab sitting and work loosly. Obviously you can't do much work as baby sitting requires most of your attention. Except when hes playing with his toys, then I can do a little work.

Thing is these days I'm  mostly on my laptop and not at my desk.

I'm not able to do anything too complicated as I get distracted getting drinks and playing with thomas the tank engine.

So I don't feel as if I can concentrate on programming or read books. Also, I find it difficult to create graphic on my desktop, I struggle on my laptop.

I can do blog posting.

I've been looking at my ToDo list this afternoon and followed all my loose ends, where I'm waiting for replies or need to discuss things.

This just about covers everything on my ToDo list :(

I'm tempted to say, that I should become a professional blogger, but thats yet another project.

Thoughts?

Home study for skills, limited time and remembering

I'm been trying for over 6 months to learn a new programming language ( C# ). I've got a basic 24 hour book. I've had to restart the book a couple of times now.

My problem is that I find it so boring and difficult to find the time to learn.

Consequently when I have been good and read for an hour a week, I tend to forget. I end up re-reading.

I was thinking if I had a project where I used the language this might keep my interest, but as I say the book is quite basic and i'll probably need to finish the book and maybe learn more from another source afterwards to give me the knowledge I need.

I just wondered what you guys thought?