On the bus, on the way home last night, I was reading a book called "The 8-Minute Organizer" by Regina Leeds.   It seems to be a useful and practical book, just as I'd hoped - though I didn't get far, since I learned (again) that reading on my phone on the bus makes me carsick.

Before I bailed, though, I came to mistrust Regina Leeds' sense of time.  She says in her introductory section that it takes about four minutes to empty the trash and the recycling bin. I don't know what her system is - I can, yes, probably empty my trash, put it down the trash shute (which is right by my apartment door) and get a new bag into the bin in four minutes, if I rush it a little.  But the recycling?  Even keeping it more or less together by the door - and I have to find a better system than that, it doesn't look pretty - even keeping it together and in a container already, I have to carry it out to the elevator or the stairs.  Either way, I don't think I can get to the basement in less than four minutes, and then there's sorting the stuff into the containers - a no-brainer, but it takes at least a minute to get a bad of recyclables in the appropriate receptacles.  Then another four minutes to get back to my apartment.

I'd say, ten minutes for the whole job, at least, if I don't linger.

Maybe I should do it with a stopwatch, to find out.

Still worth doing every day.  Or every second day. Maybe if I did the trash one day, recycling the next, on a rotating basis?  Would that work?

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