Pinterest, You've Changed Me

First of all, Shout out to Jewel (wow, I called you by your first name) for reading my blog.  Hers is pretty hilarious!  This is one of my favorite blog entries that she has written and it's not because I'm completely self-centered and it's about me.  Unfortunately the story is not exaggerated at all.  But you seriously need to take time to read that story if it's the last thing you do today.

My friend Kate signed me up for pinterest years ago, but I never signed back in and never used it.  I recently started using it because I was copying and pasting all the websites and ideas that I liked on a word document that I never saved anywhere else.  After going through several laptops, I lost all the stuff I wanted.  Now, I'm pretty sure pinterest is one of the greatest internet things ever.

I'm a changed person.

Here's some background about me:

1.  I'm not a hoarder, but I have hoarder tendencies.  My husband is what I call and anti-hoarder.  If he doesn't plan on using something within the week, he'll throw it away.  We actually make a great team.  If he hadn't married me, he would only own 2 shirts and a pair of shorts.  If I hadn't married him, I would still have my size tiny jeans that I will never fit into again.

2.  I had some old mission pictures that were doubles that I already had in my mission album and digitally and backed up on a bunch of electronic stuff.  Point is, I have them and won't lose them unless the internet ceases to exist and California falls into the ocean.

3.  I have 21 days to pack up the house, do the last finishing touches, and clean it.  Oh, and I have 2 children and a husband that already has a ton of homework before school even starts.

So what do I do?  I can't throw away my mission pictures because I'm a boarder-line hoarder.  Then again, I do already have several copies of each pictures.  And I look nasty in most of them.

I cut them up!  Into fourths.

Then on the back of each strip I wrote down a task that I need to do before I leave.

I've been doing the whole "to-do" list thing, but frankly, it's so long it's really overwhelming.  So here's my jar:

Would I have done this before I discovered pinterest?  No.  

Here was my first task:

Yep.  Vinegar my shower heads.  Done and the strip is now in the trash.  Boo ya!

I have to admit, I think some things on pinterest are a little over the top, but I do think it's a great way to organize all the things that I want to do.  Addicting?  Can be.  But I feel like I am so much more productive because I have all the ideas organized that I can just look up quickly for Olivia and Jocelyn to do.  We keep our schedule pretty well and they are mostly happier little girls.

And I want to follow you on pinterest if you are on there.  But I still don't know how to find people, so tell Kate (my bff: "it's a tier"-name that quote) and she'll add you for me.