Here it is. My big decluttering/organizing/cleaning project of the week: I cleaned off the dining room table. Perhaps you are thinking, "Ummmm, haven't you done that before? Like . . . a hundred times? And written a hundred posts about it?" Yes. Yes, I have. Yet it continually returns to slob-blogger-post-worthy … [Read more...]
Cleaning
Tips, tricks, my own hard-learned lessons about cleaning.
Playing Catch-Up
Saturday was my youngest child's fifth birthday party. Don't worry, I'm not sobbing. I'll save that for Wednesday, her actual birthday. I've come a very long way in this deslobification process and didn't have to block out two entire weeks to clean and declutter before I could start party prep. Still though, big events mean . . . … [Read more...]
My Garage is Now . . . Organized! (With "After" Pictures!)
Here it is. My final garage post. Final . . . because it's done! Monday, I shared about my attempts to "at least do something." Tuesday, I recounted the day when I really got going on this monstrous project. Yesterday, I actually got excited as I wrote about the momentum I was gaining. The final day, Tuesday, began with me doing my … [Read more...]
Organizing My Garage/Storage Space – Day One
Did you see "Day One" in the title? Meaning . . . this was a two-full-days-plus-part-of-a-third project? I despise multi-day organizational projects. Just the thought wears me out and makes me feel that someone like me could never possibly finish. Since I began this deslobification process, I've mostly done one and two hour … [Read more...]
The Scent of Clean
My husband says I have a bionic nose. Any scent, any time, any place. I smell it at least ten minutes before it registers with his (or in his opinion, with any normal person’s) nose. Consequently, more than clutter piled on the dining room table or dishes in the sink . . . as a slob, I’m most paranoid about whether or not my house … [Read more...]
Permission Granted to Surface Clean
I have no big life-changing advice for this post, but the concept of surface cleaning has been jiggling around in my brain for several days now. Last week, at a moms group meeting (a small, five person one), I stepped out of my comfort zone and told real-life people about my blog. BIG step for me. So, naturally, the subject turned to … [Read more...]
Friday’s Dusting Is Good Enough
A big part of this deslobification process is dealing with my tendency to make things harder than they need to be. Sometimes it's imagining a project to be larger and more time-consuming than it should be. Sometimes it's putting something small off, for no real reason, only to have it turn into something large. Sometimes it's not knowing, or … [Read more...]
Defining "Not That Bad"
I shared last week that any and all attempts at keeping the house in order flew out the window when the weather brought us four Snow Days. Not like opened-up-the-window-and-a-gust-of-wind-sucked-them-out. More like opened-up-the-window-picked-them-up-and-threw-them-as-far-as-I-could-with-all-my-might. I'll say it. Last week was much more … [Read more...]
Aaaaahhhhh . . . Dust Bunnies
OK, before I get into this post, I want to let you know that the friend I'm going to talk about knows that I'm talking about her. In fact, she's excited about it. There may be bloggers out there who have to worry about friends and family being upset if they write about them, but I'm not really one of those bloggers. I do try to be careful, … [Read more...]
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