I just posted about this week's hangout where I'll discuss Habit Two in 28 Days to Hope for Your Home. You know. The e-book I wrote about getting your house under control. And now I have to write this post. Yesterday, I was feeling pretty good about my house. With the motivation of an impending doorbell on Sunday night, I got "the house" … [Read more...]

We have a new music minister at our church. He made nice, new music folders for each and every choir member. I assume he recycled all the old ones but mine. Mine had been lost for who-knows-how-long before he came. When I saw my pretty new folder (with my NAME on it and everything), I determined to change my music-losing ways. I'm known … [Read more...]

Three weeks ago, we decided to start our summer break for our weekly church home group meetings. It was a logical decision. People get busy as the school year winds down. I said something about baseball season and Mother's Day and such, but inside I was thinking about one wonderful thing. I wouldn't have to clean!!! I can now say, three … [Read more...]

Blech. This was my kitchen floor last week. Unfortunately, it looked like this the week before, too.  (With a slightly different arrangement . . . ) It's possible (as I do believe I admitted) that I didn't actually declutter our paper graveyard for my daughter's birthday party . . . but stuffed it instead. Into the cabinet below.  As … [Read more...]

I KNEW there were lunch bags left. The empty plastic bag they came in was right in front of me.  And I had a vague memory of removing enough for at least that day. A vague memory from less than five minutes before. Side note: Please don't hate me for being un-green, but we use paper lunch sacks.  It's a survival technique for this Slob … [Read more...]

Dear Husband, I'm sorry about the wet shirt. I really was kind of proud of myself when I put it in the washing machine this morning.  It was early, and I was glad that the load with your coach's shirt was totally going to be finished before you needed to wear it tonight. Yes.  I do feel a little bit guilty that my cheer coach's shirt was … [Read more...]

Twelve Days of Christmas Decluttering didn’t happen. I have several excuses, and one of them is even valid. Mostly, though, “filling a box” or “filling a bag” or just randomly going through the house looking for things to declutter doesn’t ever seem to work for me. I’ve tried it ever-so-many times, and though I generally find a few things … [Read more...]

I love cleaning routine loopholes. Love them, as in I use them at every possible opportunity. Don't love them for what they do to my house in the long run. Like this: Fine.  These loopholes are pretty much excuses. But most are so legit as REASONS that it's easy to justify them.  So I'm calling them loopholes.  Confusing … [Read more...]