This is a good thing for me ! .I am throwing away little things.....junk.Stuff that has been piling up .
Our bedroom is the worst and I love that to be a my safe haven .I like to go in and relax so that is my focus right now .Clearing out drawers and donating books and clothes .

Oh ladies.

Let's get back to this. Hey, I even have a smartphone now! ... not that I should probably post pics of my hovel on the Internet. Day 1 (again.) So far today, I've tossed over 30 magazines and a lot more trash. And when I say "tossed," I mean "recycled." I also threw away my old camera with the broken lens and mashed egg yolk crammed inside (long, icky story.) Who is with me?

Work in Progress...

Ok, so for my first official post, I thought I'd tackle my closet. Aye, what a mess. My husband and I share a small walkin, and it needs help. First things first, getting out what I don't/can't wear. Hubby was a little tired of walking in there with piles everywhere and hearing me whine (I'll admit it, I whined) "I have nothing to wear!" So I started trying things on and if it didn't fit, it went in the donate pile. If I hadn't worn it in over a year, it got added to the pile. And so the pile grew and grew--way more than 10 things. What's left inside is more manageable now for sure, but I still need help. I need a few matching bins/baskets to line the top shelf on one side. I think I'd like to use those for little clutches and bags, scarves, etc. We also need a better way to secure our stacked clothing on the shelf. It's too easy for the stacks to topple over leaving us with the messy piles we currently have. I did separate my shoes some, and now I have my little sandals and flip flops in one of those under the bed shoes thing-a-ma-jigs. (On another note, how does my closet get so dang dusty? Hopefully my shoes will stay a little cleaner this way, at least those 10 pair!)

Anyway, the photos above are the befores (maybe not the worst of the before). Hopefully I can finish this project up soon--it all hinges on those upper shelves!

pictureless desk

I didn't take any pictures but I took twenty minutes just and cleared a STACK of crap off my desk. I have organized things that need to be filed (I'll do that tonight) and have a decent size trash pile. I feel really good about this monday morning so far!


Where is everyone??? Come back! Post to us! Let's motivate each other. Remember it doesn't have to be huge massive projects. Just ten things. Walk around with a laundry basket and pick up ten things that need to GO or just sit in a "trouble spot" with a trash can at your feet!

Cheers!

The Island... aka "the catch all"

We bought this island so that we'd have more counter room in our kitchen... HA. It's NEVER used for extra counter space in the way I see an island being used... for cooking, food handling, grocery setting down.. nope. It's used for mail dumping, paper dumping, coloring dumping, random things we don't know where to put them... NO MORE!



I took everything off the top and put it on the table to sort it out. I did the same with the cabinet. I am keeping the art supplies in the cabinet for now mostly be/c there isn't another place for them currently. But I'm considering getting some kind of shelving for art/puzzles/games since we seem to be breeding those things.

Here are two things that really don't belong in here but haven't had another "home" until TODAY. One is a BAG full of different icings and sprinkles and birthday candles. The second is a safety kit.

Here is a stack of just papers needing to find the trash can.

Here is a stack of junk needing to find the trash can...
play-do scissors (we don't even have any play-do!)

And TA DA! The after:

Little By Little

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford

This may be a small and pretty insignificant project today. But, hey, at least I committed!

I had a crazy day involving a big interview that was 2.5 hours away (5 hours round trip). In between I had to take care of two little boys---in particular, a newly 3 year old who wants to prove to mommy he doesn't have to do anything she says. Being the sole parent is particularly stressful when interviewing because when the interviewer says jump, I have to jump. I get crazy trying to make back up plans in a pinch (the boys are in daycare on a military base and you have to have a military id to get on to base---so I have to jump through rings of fire to get anyone else to be able to pick them up as backup). So, when the interviewer asked me today what my greatest accomplishment was, I was wishing that I could have been really honest and told him it was getting out of the house today instead of the corporate mumbo jumbo I spoon fed.

ANYWAY, my whining aside, I cleaned out under the half bath sink this morning while I was drying my hair. The clutter was mostly just packaging from toilet paper, etc.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Now, I know it is not much, but it does help to restore order in my otherwise chaotic life. Every little bit counts.

Bathrooms

I'm not all together sure how this happened, but I ended up in both bathrooms tonight giving them a big purge! I forgot the before pictures be/c I wasn't really planning on doing so much. I had toothpaste to put under the sink and it was TRASHED so I sat down and got busy. Here's the after, left side and right side.

nAnd here's the crap that leaves my house... the box has nothing but trash in it. wrappers and empty boxes of old junk. Expired meds, SUPER OLD (like from high school) perfume that smells gross now, cough drops from who knows when be/c I don't remember ever buying that kind...

the funniest thing to me though was the lipsticks.
WHY do I still have them, when they look like this?

OLD MEDS

I don't remember ever seeing this basket under the sink either. I wish I would have had it OUT and used cutely over the holidays. I'll be relocating it now. Thank you so much.

And then something weird happened. I moved from the master bath to the hall bath... and started over. Again no before pic be/c I wasn't planning on pulling it all out, but here's the after.

Here's the crap that is expired and hitting the trash can.
(NO Clue how old that bleach is,.... ew)

And then somehow, I scooted over and opened the linen closet and went "ACK!" so here's the before pic since I was with camera in hand:

And the after!

So there you have it... my bathrooms. Whew!