What if a simple storage technique could help you be better organized in your daily life at home and lighten the famous mental charge?
Are you looking for a simple solution to free your mind from the overflow from small household chores? The Sunday basket technique, or Sunday basketball, may well become your ally. Invented by Lisa Woodruff, founder of Organize 365, this organizational method has changed its daily life and that of thousands of others.
Everything starts from an observation: accumulated, the little things in everyday life become overwhelming. Papers lying around, invoices to be paid, go to note, ideas not to be forgotten. So many details that clutter the kitchen table and saturate the mind. To get out of this chaos, Lisa Woodruff imagined a simple system: to collect everything in one place, then treat everything once a week.
Concretely, the Sunday basket presents itself as a box or a sorter equipped with pockets. During the week, as soon as a new task arises, it is slipped into the basket: a letter, an administrative paper, a scribbled note, a project idea, an invoice, or even a list of races. The idea is not to manage it at the time, but to store it. Result: the spirit is released and the pile of papers no longer grows everywhere in the house.
Sunday (or another fixed day of the week) comes for sorting. We empty the basket, we throw away what is useless, we adjust what can be immediately, we plan other tasks in the agenda or we postpone them to the following week. This weekly meeting becomes a habit: once everything is reviewed, the coming week seems much clearer and controlled. Lisa Woodruff believes that this system has made it an average of five hours a week. The benefit is double: less mental load and less time lost to run after the papers or to remember what remains to be done.
Setting up a Sunday basket is very easy. A box, a few pockets or colors of color is enough to separate the categories: invoices, school, house, projects, shopping … No need to buy specific equipment, even if an official kit exists. The main thing is to choose a container that makes you want to use it and respect the weekly meeting.
This method is not magic: it requires regularity. But by choosing to empty your basket every week, you regain control. And above all, we stop carrying alone, permanently, the invisible weight of all these small tasks.
