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Decluttering the Boys’ Bookshelf

January 20, 2013 By Nony 31 Comments

We take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this Decluttering Webisode with two special guest stars.

(Please be warned that if you only have girls, this may be disconcerting to watch. Video contains excessive loudness, goofiness, mild cartoonish violence and fake bodily function noises.)

(If you’re reading via email, click the title of the post to get to the blog so you can view the video.)

The kids were out of school on Friday. Fun Mom took them to the park to enjoy a warm and sunny January day. (Seriously. We’re in Texas.) But before she took over, Good Mom made them declutter their bookshelf.

Their insanely messy bookshelf.

And Slob Blogger Mom made a webisode of it.

We asked three questions:

#1: Did you love this book?

The Ones We Kept

#2: Did you love it enough to read it again?

The books (and other random stuff) we donated.

#3: Would you recommend it to your brother or sister?

The ones we saved for our sister.

It was a wild and wacky morning.

We decided to pitch things they didn’t even know they had (one of my decluttering questions!), they took random non-book things to their homes immediately (another one of my strategies), and in the end we got rid of a wholelotta books.

Now that the books we kept are visible and accessible, the faves are already being read again.

In case you’re a mom who is always looking for books for your boys, here are some of their favorites:

They both love the books in this series by Dan Gutman. A boy goes back in history and meets baseball players. They devoured every one they could find last summer.

They also love the Hardy Boys books, this one especially.

And . . . this is the one mentioned frequently in the webisode. They love it.

And my 11yo LOVES this one:

Oh. And this one.

Which . . . I just now realized is written by the same author as the baseball card series . . .

I could keep going. I’m thankful they both love to read.

Do you find it difficult to declutter books?

Oh, and all the books on Amazon? They’re my affiliate links.

Filed Under: decluttering, kids rooms, vlogs | 31 Comments

The Master Bedroom Saga: Part 10

January 7, 2013 By Nony 2 Comments

Oh my word. It’s JANUARY of 2013, and I still haven’t finished posting the Master Bedroom Saga????

Well, this is the next-to-the-last post in this series. It’s the end of the video footage I shot while actually doing the project, and I put it into two different videos. (If you’re reading by email, click on the title of the post to get to the blog where you can see the videos.) At this point, I’d stopped bothering to write in the daily journal, so I’m just going on memory and what I said/did in the videos.

Basically, it went like this:

(All characters played by me. All characters are me. I have lots of these internal dialogues . . . )

“Oh no! I’m never, ever going to finish this stupid project! What was I thinking!!??!!??!!”

“Chill. Do the easy stuff.”

“OK, that helped. I got some easy things done, but WHY oh WHY do I always find stuff like books of Broadway songs at the bottom of piles of shoes?? WHY??”

“Get over it. Ask your first decluttering question (that YOU invented) and then go put it wherever you would look for it first. It’s not that big of a deal.”

“So the room is looking significantly better as I’ve worked through it little by little, but what about this? Huh? I mean, this almost-15-year-old Rolling Stone magazine with the Seinfeld characters dressed as Wizard of Oz characters . . . . THAT could be valuable! So what do I do with that???”

“Ummmm, check how much it’s selling for on eBay. That ‘could be valuable’ excuse doesn’t fly anymore. You can know whether or not it’s valuable. In, like, 28 seconds.”

“Fine. You were right. Ten dollars isn’t worth my time to put this on eBay right now. Maybe a few years ago when I was selling on there all the time, but now that I’m busy with . . . ”

“Stop talking. Get back to work. You have to finish this project.”

“Oh. Right. Sorry.”

And . . . that’s about it. I did this huge project in August of 2012. I wrote my new e-book, Drowning in Clutter?, in December. Looking back at the videos confirmed that all the strategies in the e-book are the actual strategies I use as I work my way through decluttering projects.

All of them. Little ones or seriously-is-this-ever-going-to-end ones.

My goal for next week? Post the FINALE of this series. The still-to-be-shot finale. The oh-my-word-am-I-really-going-to-show-what-my-master-bedroom-looks-like-now video?

Yes. I will.

Oh. And the two videos in this post are titled parts 9 and 10. I didn’t include a video in blog post 9. It’s confusing, I know.

See links to the strategies mentioned above on my decluttering page. And/or get the e-book while it’s on sale this month. It’s getting great reviews.

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A Belated Birthday Giveaway! – And My First VLOG!!!

January 26, 2011 By Nony 136 Comments

There you go.

My very first vlog.

(That’s a “video log,” in case anyone thinks I’ve acquired a potty-mouth.)

It’s belated, because I’m a belated-kind-of-gal. My great ideas tend to come to me right when it’s almost too late to implement them. But since this is my very own blog, I get to do what I want and host a birthday giveaway 5 days after my birthday.

I have loved all of the cleaning tools that Libman sent me as their brand ambassador. And I really love that when I asked them if I could do a giveaway of some of the tools, they said, “Sure!”

They didn’t even bat an eye when I said, “Ummm, how about tomorrow?”

Anyway, as I’ve said many times in this deslobification process I’m going through, I’ve had to accept that no cleaning gadget or tool is going to keep my house clean. I have to keep my house clean.

But it does help to at least own some good tools.

So one lucky commenter is going to be sent a set of five cleaning tools from Libman. They aren’t exactly the same as the ones I used in the vlog.

Those were my Libman tools, used as props.

In my ever-so-professional video.

Here are the actual tools in the giveaway:

The Whisk and Dust Pan (Perfect for having little ones help clean up!)

Power Scrub Brush (I keep this one in my shower for impromptu scrubbing sessions. Scrubbing the shower, not me.)

Curved Kitchen Brush (I’m actually jealous because I don’t have this one.)

Plus one that I can’t post pictures of because I tried to resize it and messed it up somehow.

It’s the Designer Bowl Brush . . . or as I generally refer to mine . . . a toilet brush.

Also included is my absolute favorite:

The Dish Scrub and Soap Dispenser

They were going to send the winner their five top-selling of these types of products, but I requested that this one replace the grout-scrubber. Mostly because I LOVE this dish scrubber so much. I’ve had things before where you put the soap in the scrubber itself, but this one is far superior to any I’ve used before. It’s perfect for dishes, and I love to use it to give my sink a quick scrub-down.

Besides, do people actually clean their grout? I suppose they must, since it’s a top-seller, but I always just pretend that mine is supposed to be that color.

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave a comment on this post. Nothing special is required in your comment, but make sure that you include a way to contact you. You may want to avoid the spam-robots by spelling it out like this: aslobcomesclean at gmail dot com. Some of you with google accounts have it set up where I can email you through your profile when you comment, but if you’re not sure, leave your email.

If you’re at work and can’t watch the vlog, don’t worry, there’s nothing in it that’s needed to enter the giveaway. Actually, there’s nothing in it that’s needed for anything. It’s just me having fun with hubby’s new iphone!

If you would like some extra entries, you can:

Like Libman on Facebook.

Subscribe to A Slob Comes Clean

Subscribe to A Slob Comes Clean by Email

Become a follower over on my sidebar.

Like Me on facebook,

and/or follow me on twitter.

For each of those things that you do, leave a separate comment, so that it can be counted as another entry.

Example:

Comment #1 – Oh my word, you’re so hilarious, and don’t look like a total dork at all in that vlog!!! aslobcomesclean at gmail dot com

Comment # 2 – I followed you on twitter! aslobcomesclean at gmail dot com

Comment # 3 – I already subscribe to your blog! aslobcomesclean at gmail dot com

Please be aware that if you already subscribe, you need to click through to the actual post to comment, as responding to the email can’t count as an entry. And your comment has to be on this post. Commenting on youtube or facebook will make me happy, but it won’t count as an entry to the giveaway. This giveaway will end at midnight Pacific time on February 1, and then I’ll use random.org to select a winner.

Sorry, but this giveaway is only open to U.S. residents.

I received no monetary compensation for this post, but was provided with fabulous cleaning tools by Libman. The opinions are all mine!
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