Comments on: Spring Cleaning: Day Two

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:49:26 +0000

I have a saying that I take very seriously. It applies to when I have company coming over. I do a major tidy/clean up, and I say to myself: “as long as it’s clean when they come in, I don’t care how messy it gets afterward”. I have 2 boys (4 and 16 months), so I have a very limited time in which my spaces stay clean. But when my friends are over, and they’ve seen that my house CAN be clean, I can just sit back and relax, and enjoy their reaction when my living room goes from tidy to tornado-disaster-area in 3.5 seconds. Especially the friends that don’t have kids, and complain about having to do the dishes once a day.

Also, I wanted to share a little tip: I found this website that you can make lists on (as many as you need, for whatever you need, including chores, appointments, birthdays, shopping, calls that need to be made, etc. etc. etc.). I love making lists, and I found this website (it’s free, and you can have lists sent to your cell when you need it). Here it is, I highly recommend you check it out: http://www.rememberthemilk.com
Leah´s last blog ..Oh, to be organized…

By: 20 Indoor Activities for Kids – besides TV

20 Indoor Activities for Kids – besides TV — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:19:11 +0000

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By: Adriana

Adriana — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:09:16 +0000

Well again I know I am late to do this, but the comments are making me be accountable so here it goes… I started yesterday by reevaluating my living room. We were in the process of adding and taking away furniture and it was never completed. I thought about the space since we moved all the toys to the bedroom or basement. My kids still need toys so I am using my bench with cubbies to house a few toys in two baskets and then I still have a cubbie left for my CSA basket. I put away some jackets that had lingered and rearranged some of the furniture. I now know what furniture to relocate. I dusted, cleaned my windows, and removed some nasty cobwebs. It is all done but I would like to vacuum the inside of my couch and chair and clean the windows from the outside. This process made me realize that my house has no pictures of our family or even decor. I don’t like clutter, but my walls look bare when there isn’t visual clutter blocking everything. And I knew I didn’t have curtains or throw pillows, but when everything you don’t love is gone or stuff is put away, you start to notice the things that are missing. I am trying to focus on the serene feeling I have with no clutter and not on what is missing.

By: Organizing Your Way | Spring Cleaning Party: Final Wrap-Up

Organizing Your Way | Spring Cleaning Party: Final Wrap-Up — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:49:22 +0000

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By: Spring Cleaning: Day Seven

Spring Cleaning: Day Seven — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:00:57 +0000

[...] I already showed you our book collection, housed in the living room. Children’s books used to be in our playroom, but we recently moved everything into one larger reading nook for the whole family. We did this for several reasons: [...]

By: Abbie

Abbie — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:33:07 +0000

I have a toddler-run relocation program going full swing in my home. They grab something and bring it somewhere else and drop it. I put two baskets in my central kitchen area for upstairs items and downstairs items. I collect the items my toddlers relocate in these bins and bring them all up-stairs or down-stairs and everything away at one time. This way the clutter isn’t lurking around my living areas, and if I do need something before it is “put back” I know it is in the bin.
I like your lid solution so you can’t see the clutter. My baskets are colored fabric so I can’t see the clutter, but they don’t have lids.

By: Abbie

Abbie — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:30:27 +0000

I definitely agree irregular working schedules are tough. I really like my daily planner and I write in what I am doing and which day I plan to do it. What I like most about a paper planner is that the space is limited. I say, if you can’t write it all, you can’t do it all. So I’d pick a few blocks of time I my schedule is free, (and I have the most energy) and then delegate a small number of cleaning tasks to those blocks of time. Be mentally flexible – since you can be called away at a moments notice sometimes, and don’t beat yourself up when you can’t “check-off” that to-do item.
I plan weekly since I know what my schedule will be like a week in advance. Good luck to you! I hope you find a cleaning system that works for you!
Abbie

By: Abbie

Abbie — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:37:00 +0000

So, true. Thanks for the gentle reminder about real life.
Abbie

By: christy

christy — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:13:07 +0000

My clean surfaces from day 1 didn't exist today. I feel really good about the cleaning I got done.http://pensivechristy.blogspot.com/2009/05/spring-cleaning-party-day-2.html christy´s last blog post...Spring Cleaning Party!

By: More Than A Mom

More Than A Mom — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:33:29 +0000

I am thrilled with the amount of work I am getting done (so far). It may not look like much but I work with the "messier before organized" method. More Than A Mom´s last blog post...Spring Cleaning Party ~ Day Two