As I keep going in my deslobification process, I'm more and more determined to organize our home for the way we actually live. Not for how people in magazines live, but how we live. Not even for the way I wish we lived . . . but for how we actually do live. Today, I worked on the cabinets in my master bathroom. Hubby and I have separate … [Read more...]
When I Said I Cleaned My Bathrooms . . . What I Really Meant Was . . .
I promise complete honesty here. Sometimes that complete honesty means telling you that I purposely didn't show the still-cluttered area just outside the photo of the newly-decluttered one. Sometimes it means posts like this one. I've made it clear that I didn't do very well over the summer at consistently doing my weekly cleaning … [Read more...]
Trying Not to Over-Complicate Things – A Printable Daily Bathroom Checklist
Summer vacation begins tomorrow, and I've finally finished the printable daily bathroom checklist that I was determined to have ready before the boys got out of school. It shouldn't have been this difficult. I tend to over-complicate things. For all of my loosi-goosiness, I do love making a plan. Often a long, detailed . . . complicated … [Read more...]
Working in My Weekly Tasks
I've been considering experimenting with my weekly task schedule. Even though it works well do one major task a day, I'm a little overwhelmed with other commitments right now and had wondered if I could double up some days to give myself a day off here and there. Not a day off for couch-sitting, but a day off for … [Read more...]
I’ll Take Any Motivation I Can Get
Aaaaahhhhh, our bathrooms are clean(er than they were yesterday)!!! It's Tuesday, which is bathroom-cleaning day, but we missed the last three Tuesdays due to vacation and VBS, both valid excuses. But I didn't want to clean bathrooms today. I mean, if they've gone that long without being cleaned, what's one more week? My sole motivation … [Read more...]
A Gadget That I Actually Use . . . No Really
I’m going to give full credit to my 8yo here. He’s the one who pulled the cord on this lightbulb moment. My shower has been pretty clean since I started doing my weekly tasks. Before that . . . not so much. One night, pre-regular-shower-cleaning, I noticed that he was taking extra long in the shower. I didn’t think much of it until I took … [Read more...]
Teaching My Children to Clean Bathrooms
Today is the first Tuesday of the summer. Tuesday is the day I clean bathrooms. So . . . today was the day I taught my kids to clean the bathrooms. Overall, it went quite well. I was prepared. I had their supply baskets ready to go, complete with home-made kid-friendly cleaning products. I had the bathroom cleaning checklists printed … [Read more...]
Bathroom Cleaning Supply Baskets for the Kids
How incredibly cute are these baskets? Too bad they didn't have any pink ones left, but at least my daughter got a pink sponge and a pink topped spray bottle. Today has been crazy with end-of-school-goings-on, but I was determined to get something done, since every day this week will be equally crazy. I took a trip to the Dollar Tree, and … [Read more...]