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Home organization

Keeping my home tidy and organised I found it is super important for allowing me keep focus on the things I really want to do, specially working from home. It helped me to stop and organize what will make my life easier.

House cleaning

Me and my wife sit down and discussed for each division of the house what type of cleaning tasks we want and how frequently. Then we split between us the tasks and which tasks we want to hire outside help.

Bedrooms

Mop floor 1x/month

Vacuum 1x/week

Clean dust 1x/week

Change bed linen 1x/week

Clean bike 1x/week

Clean glasses 1x/week

Kitchen

Clean surfaces - 1x/week

Clean fridge 1x/month

Clean oven 1x/month

Bathroom (all tasks 1x/week)

Clean glasses

Clean mirror

Sanitize toilet

Sanitize floor

Change towels

Living Room

Clean glasses 1x/week

Vacuum 1x/day

Clean sofa 1x/week

Clean the dust 1x/ week

Restocking house goods

The other important part is make sure we have stock of all house essentials. Every 15th of the month I go over the list and check if any items are below the minimum amount of stock to retrigger.

Minimum stock to trigger restock: should last for at least two months

Value to restock/buy: 3 months of the item

Shopping list (filtered for home organization)

Shopping list (filtered for home organization)

Name

Which one to buy

Where to buy

Minimum stock

Organization of things

Where to put things and make it very acessible is important, specially for things that you use everyday (like plates in kitchen). You can make your life easier by stopping and thinking what is the right cabinet for each item.

Kitchen setup

We invested quite time in defining where to put our kitchen. We moved from a place where we felt “there was not enough space in kitchen” to have more than enough and feel much more efficient when cooking. Some tips:

Principles

Prioritize easy to reach drawers for the most used items (cutlery)

Allocate things that go hand in hand together (eg. water cups with water recipient)

Declutter - items that you are not sure if you need, put them in a box and put it a closed drawer, if after 3 months you didn’t use them you can give them away. It becomes much more simpler to find that utensil that you need when you have 50% less stuff.

Draw your cabinet, and put in paper first where you want

Experiment and validate your results, move things to a new place and test for a week and see how you feel

Keep things as close as possible as you use them (eg. glasses next to the water fountain)

Process

Map the kitchen

Label each drawer and each table

Define what each table area should be for

Organize the drawers - Go one by one in terms of drawers:

start by thinking what is the best use of that space

organize that drawer with the important things. Put other things in a basket if no specific place yet

Add to the glossary what is in there

When to revisit this?

Everytime something seems to be upgrade, go and upate the list

Keep iterating

Office setup

Questions to think about home office setup

Standing desk (alternate between standing and sitting)

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Do i need two screens?

Ergonomic desk setup:

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Elbows are 90 degrees; have foot bench if you don’t reach your

Monitor at arms length, high level at top of your monitor

Monitor tips

Adjust the monitor height so that the top of the screen is at—or slightly below—eye level.

Your eyes should look slightly downward when viewing the middle of the screen.

Position the monitor at least 20 inches (51 cm) from your eyes—about an arm’s length distance. If your screen is larger, add more viewing distance.

Keep glare down by adjusting the screen position.

Maintain the distance between your screen-scanning eyes and your screen by tilting the monitor back 10° to 20°.

If you wear bifocals (we’ll never tell!), lower the monitor below eye level and turn your screen upward, tilting it back 30° to 45°.

Lightning/webcam

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Positioning

size of desk, size of standing desk

distance to monitor

monitor should be placed a bit above my height

one connector to rule them all ( put laptop and connect in one go)

Chargers needed

fitbit

laptop

screen

mobile phone

led light -check