The boys have their February break coming up (Feb 20-26). Why go somewhere during then when you can stay home & SPRING CLEAN?? Yep, that`s right! We are staying put, & cleaning out this ENTIRE house. All 1600 sq ft. I plan on getting rid of a LOT. We will even be going through the storage room (yikes).
In doing this, I am hoping that my house will stay cleaner, longer. I plan to put my Pinterest shenanigans to good use, finally, to create in & out boxes for the boys, to create storage systems for school papers, & to organize my jewellry, just to name a couple ideas!
I also plan on reinstating my cleaning schedules, but involving the boys. They need to learn that laundry doesn`t magically go from their bedroom floor to their dresser, all clean again. That dishes don`t clean themselves overnight. And I don`t mean just the kids ;)
Here is my room by room plan. Hopefully, if I write it all out, it will motivate me to get it all done during the boys` week off!!
Kitchen
- clean out fridge & freezers (wipe down with bleach), wipe down the outside surfaces
- clean stove & oven, wipe down outside surfaces
- bleach out microwave & dishwasher, wipe down outside surfaces
- clean out pantry, dust shelves
- clean under sink
- wipe down walls & cupboards
- OrangeGlo woodwork
- clean windows
- dust everything
Living/Dining Room
- clean out furniture
- dust/clean all surfaces
- wash windows
- deep clean carpets
- go through magazines/catalogs
Office/Entrance
- clean out coat closet
- go through desk surfaces
- sort through craft supplies
- dust all surfaces
- wash windows
Toy Room
- sort through all toys (donate donate donate!)
- scrub down shelves
- bleach toys as needed
- disinfect floors
- dust all surfaces
- wash windows
Bathrooms
- DEEP CLEAN ALL SURFACES
- sort through vanities
TV Room
- dust all surfaces
- clean out couches
- sort through movies
- deep clean floors
Bedrooms
- go through closets & dressers
- dust all surfaces
- wash windows
- deep clean floors
- reorganize my jewellery
Wow. That is a HUGE list! And I don`t even the storage room on there! So, if you don`t from me that week, please look in the toyroom, it will most likely have swallowed me whole!! Should I survive, I will be sure to share the Pinned Projects I have used! And maybe even (finally) post after photos of the house!
Showing posts with label Home Organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home Organization. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Clean House, Clean Mind?
Do you find that when your house is messy, your mind feels messy? I seem to feel disorganzied & just plain "off" when the boys have destroyed the house. The gritty snacks I step on, the lack of clean spoons, etc etc. The only remedy I have found is to deep clean!
With spring approaching, my mind has turned to spring cleaning, & with that comes home organization! I love to organize things. Like, to an obsessive, crazy extent. One project I crazily took on? Organizing the boys` Legos by size & color. I gave up after a week, LOL. They are, however, still organizd by "category", bricks, flat pieces, people, windows/doors, car pieces. Haha. Makes a person wonder about my state of mind somedays!
Anyway. The warm-ish weather yesterday & today has had me thinking of spring, & with that cleaning lists. I had found a great website to help me create a Household Binder (www.organizedhome.com). The site has a lot of amazing printables, & many, many articles with hints & i deas.
The nice thing about a Home Binder is that you can completely customize it to suit your family`s needs. You can use the pages they have, or use it as a guide to create pages that you need. My binder is fairly thick.
- I have a calendar in the front, with everyone`s activities on it (practice, birthdays, appointments, etc). I have color coded the calendar as well, making it easy to see who needs to be where & when with 1 quick glance.
- Then the 4 of us each have a section. Because of allergies & asthma, each person has a list of their allergies & medicines listed, as well as their doctor`s number/info. Then I include a class list, school calendar, & sports calendar. I also have a list of important phone numbers (coaches, teachers, friends).
- My recipe section helps with my meal planning. I have meals listed that the family loves, & what we need when we have that. When I plan my menu, I go through the lists & pick out what we will eat & make the grocery list. I also have a page protector to put new recipe ideas in (printed, or torn from magazines). I use this section along with my recipe binder (more on that to come later!).
- Another section is house ideas, since our home is a work in progress. This I have divided by room. At the top, I have listed the paint color(s) used, and then listed are all the projects that need to be done (changing out light fixtures, flooring ideas, etc).
The last subject I have is my Cleaning Schedule! Yes, I have a schedule, & I really, REALLY need to get back on it! I have a list of daily chores (vaccuming, laundry, beds, wiping down the bathrooms before bed, etc). Then I have set a room to each day to focus on.
Monday - Toy room & entrance/office
Tuesday - Kitchen
Wednesday - Living Room
Thursday - Upstairs
Friday - Bathrooms
Weekend - Catch up
When I do keep up with my schedule, it makes Spring Cleaning SO much easier! I don`t have to deep clean as deep, & then it`s just a matter of switching out linens, putting away winter gear, & taking inventory of what the boys need for summer.
I am hoping to get my Home Binder up to date, & to implement my cleaning schedule again. It will be nice to have a clean, tidy house again! And, to have a coherent head, LOL. Well, one can hope anyway ;)
Once I get my binder together, I will share photos. Are you going to create a home binder for your household? What will put in it?
With spring approaching, my mind has turned to spring cleaning, & with that comes home organization! I love to organize things. Like, to an obsessive, crazy extent. One project I crazily took on? Organizing the boys` Legos by size & color. I gave up after a week, LOL. They are, however, still organizd by "category", bricks, flat pieces, people, windows/doors, car pieces. Haha. Makes a person wonder about my state of mind somedays!
Anyway. The warm-ish weather yesterday & today has had me thinking of spring, & with that cleaning lists. I had found a great website to help me create a Household Binder (www.organizedhome.com). The site has a lot of amazing printables, & many, many articles with hints & i deas.
The nice thing about a Home Binder is that you can completely customize it to suit your family`s needs. You can use the pages they have, or use it as a guide to create pages that you need. My binder is fairly thick.
- I have a calendar in the front, with everyone`s activities on it (practice, birthdays, appointments, etc). I have color coded the calendar as well, making it easy to see who needs to be where & when with 1 quick glance.
- Then the 4 of us each have a section. Because of allergies & asthma, each person has a list of their allergies & medicines listed, as well as their doctor`s number/info. Then I include a class list, school calendar, & sports calendar. I also have a list of important phone numbers (coaches, teachers, friends).
- My recipe section helps with my meal planning. I have meals listed that the family loves, & what we need when we have that. When I plan my menu, I go through the lists & pick out what we will eat & make the grocery list. I also have a page protector to put new recipe ideas in (printed, or torn from magazines). I use this section along with my recipe binder (more on that to come later!).
- Another section is house ideas, since our home is a work in progress. This I have divided by room. At the top, I have listed the paint color(s) used, and then listed are all the projects that need to be done (changing out light fixtures, flooring ideas, etc).
The last subject I have is my Cleaning Schedule! Yes, I have a schedule, & I really, REALLY need to get back on it! I have a list of daily chores (vaccuming, laundry, beds, wiping down the bathrooms before bed, etc). Then I have set a room to each day to focus on.
Monday - Toy room & entrance/office
Tuesday - Kitchen
Wednesday - Living Room
Thursday - Upstairs
Friday - Bathrooms
Weekend - Catch up
When I do keep up with my schedule, it makes Spring Cleaning SO much easier! I don`t have to deep clean as deep, & then it`s just a matter of switching out linens, putting away winter gear, & taking inventory of what the boys need for summer.
I am hoping to get my Home Binder up to date, & to implement my cleaning schedule again. It will be nice to have a clean, tidy house again! And, to have a coherent head, LOL. Well, one can hope anyway ;)
Once I get my binder together, I will share photos. Are you going to create a home binder for your household? What will put in it?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
2012 is OUR Year!!
Well. I have no excuses. It has been a long, LONG time since I have visited, errr, posted! I have been incredibly busy with the boys, their social lives (hockey, other sports, school & everything else!), and my home business taking off! Part of taking back time for me in 2012 includes blogging, so fingers crossed I can keep it up!
Speaking of that, the taking back time for me thing? That is my non-resolution, resolution for this year. I hate making resolutions, since when I feel compelled to do something? It makes me not want to do it. LOL. So here are some little things in my life I`d like to change, just to that I am LIVING life, & not just existing.
- Make more time for ME. This includes saying no to volunteer duties, or making hats on short notice, or otherwise feeling pressured to do something, when I know that I do not have the time or energy to commit to something. I will normally do it anyway, forfeiting sleep, eating, etc. Ànd that`s just not fair to ME!
- Make more time for my husband. I`d love to commit to 1 date night a month, but seriously? With the boys` being so busy with their activities, it just won`t happen (see first point!). But if we have the chance to go for supper, or even lunch, I`d like to take advantage of it! We will be celebrating our 10th anniversary at the end of March, so I`d love to take a trip, just us. That has yet to happen since we`ve had kids, BTW. While a beach would be ideal, I`d be okay with a weekend jaunt to the city sans kids too.
- Make more time for my family. We eat supper together at the table most nights (in between hockey practices & games, like tonight!), which makes me happy. But it would be nice to more FUN things. Sledding at the hill, going skating, just hanging out! And not when we HAVE to be somewhere. Just because we can. Even a game night. Over Christmas break, we spent an evening just watching movies together & it was nice. The boys stopped fighting for longer than 10 minutes, & it was a nice, relaxing night at home.
- Get ORGANIZED. Those who know me, know I am OCD. Lately? Not so much! My house has gone to pot, I keep losing things I really need, & yeah. I have turned into a disaster. I would love to get that back, so I plan on creating a family command station, & revamping my Household Organization binder. I also plan to use my latest addiction (and possible explanation of why my organization has gone down the tubes, LOL), Pinterest, to my full advantage. I`d love to spend $20 to make 9 months worth of laundry detergent, & other crafty type ideas!
- Menu Planning. Part of my Home Binder is menu planning. We do eat fairly healthy as it is, but I do need to break out of my shell & start vamping up our menu selection. I tend to stick to about 10 dishes I know the boys love, but would love to start making a wider variety of meals. Part of this means kicking my recipe blog back into high gear (you can find that at www.therecipesofasahm.blogspot.com). So far, I have tried 3 new recipes to the delight of the boys!
- Organize my store! Two years ago, I started crocheting hats for my nieces & nephews. Well. It has EXPLODED. I now create adorable little animal hats & team mohawk hats, make tutus & hair clippies, & am starting to explore slippers, mittens & other accessories. In November & December, I made 200 hats. INSANE. I`d love create a mini store in my office for when friends stop over to look at stuff, & then just organize my order forms & whatnot.
So there you have it! Six steps to make 2012 OUR year! Wish me luck :D
Oh & readers. This blog isn`t for just me. YOU tell me, what are your steps to make 2012 your year?
Speaking of that, the taking back time for me thing? That is my non-resolution, resolution for this year. I hate making resolutions, since when I feel compelled to do something? It makes me not want to do it. LOL. So here are some little things in my life I`d like to change, just to that I am LIVING life, & not just existing.
- Make more time for ME. This includes saying no to volunteer duties, or making hats on short notice, or otherwise feeling pressured to do something, when I know that I do not have the time or energy to commit to something. I will normally do it anyway, forfeiting sleep, eating, etc. Ànd that`s just not fair to ME!
- Make more time for my husband. I`d love to commit to 1 date night a month, but seriously? With the boys` being so busy with their activities, it just won`t happen (see first point!). But if we have the chance to go for supper, or even lunch, I`d like to take advantage of it! We will be celebrating our 10th anniversary at the end of March, so I`d love to take a trip, just us. That has yet to happen since we`ve had kids, BTW. While a beach would be ideal, I`d be okay with a weekend jaunt to the city sans kids too.
- Make more time for my family. We eat supper together at the table most nights (in between hockey practices & games, like tonight!), which makes me happy. But it would be nice to more FUN things. Sledding at the hill, going skating, just hanging out! And not when we HAVE to be somewhere. Just because we can. Even a game night. Over Christmas break, we spent an evening just watching movies together & it was nice. The boys stopped fighting for longer than 10 minutes, & it was a nice, relaxing night at home.
- Get ORGANIZED. Those who know me, know I am OCD. Lately? Not so much! My house has gone to pot, I keep losing things I really need, & yeah. I have turned into a disaster. I would love to get that back, so I plan on creating a family command station, & revamping my Household Organization binder. I also plan to use my latest addiction (and possible explanation of why my organization has gone down the tubes, LOL), Pinterest, to my full advantage. I`d love to spend $20 to make 9 months worth of laundry detergent, & other crafty type ideas!
- Menu Planning. Part of my Home Binder is menu planning. We do eat fairly healthy as it is, but I do need to break out of my shell & start vamping up our menu selection. I tend to stick to about 10 dishes I know the boys love, but would love to start making a wider variety of meals. Part of this means kicking my recipe blog back into high gear (you can find that at www.therecipesofasahm.blogspot.com). So far, I have tried 3 new recipes to the delight of the boys!
- Organize my store! Two years ago, I started crocheting hats for my nieces & nephews. Well. It has EXPLODED. I now create adorable little animal hats & team mohawk hats, make tutus & hair clippies, & am starting to explore slippers, mittens & other accessories. In November & December, I made 200 hats. INSANE. I`d love create a mini store in my office for when friends stop over to look at stuff, & then just organize my order forms & whatnot.
So there you have it! Six steps to make 2012 OUR year! Wish me luck :D
Oh & readers. This blog isn`t for just me. YOU tell me, what are your steps to make 2012 your year?
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Summer Time & The Living Is...Messy??
Oh people. I need to clean something fierce!! My house looks like a tsunami hit. It's THAT bad. The toy room threw up, the living room has gone 5 rounds with Sir Spills-A-Lot & She-Who-Sheds-Too-Much, & the entrance looks like a shoe factory exploded in it. I am going to Saskatoon on Friday for back to school shopping, then we are off to Biggar Saturday for my aunt's 25th anniversary. I can't leave my house like this, so that means today & tomorrow? There will be some CRAZY cleaning going on 'round here!
When I deep clean my house, I always think & wish & hope to have new organization for this house. I think constantly to myself, I could use one of these, or wouldn't it be great to have that? Then my shopping wish list grows & grows. Yet nothing ever gets boughten from it. Tragic, isn't it? I have so many cute ideas for the toyroom, but it's hard to find stuff I want in our small town. So I "make do", which means the house gets messy fast & nothing is as organized as I like.
I decided to try to make some of my grand organization plans come to fruitition this fall. I will be a daytime empty nester (hard to believe my babies are in grades 1 & 3!!), I'm going to use those first couple weeks back at school to try to completely clean and organization my disaster, er, house. I'd love to create a homework area for the boys, & a message center for G, & really? The list is endless!! I also need to sort through the toy room. I KNOW there are toys in there that I can get rid of!! So, I will keep track of my progress on here. Aren't you readers oh so lucky?? Maybe some of my ideas will help you! Or, if you have any ideas, you could shoot them my way & help me :)
And now, to at least clear a path to the door & start laundry!!
When I deep clean my house, I always think & wish & hope to have new organization for this house. I think constantly to myself, I could use one of these, or wouldn't it be great to have that? Then my shopping wish list grows & grows. Yet nothing ever gets boughten from it. Tragic, isn't it? I have so many cute ideas for the toyroom, but it's hard to find stuff I want in our small town. So I "make do", which means the house gets messy fast & nothing is as organized as I like.
I decided to try to make some of my grand organization plans come to fruitition this fall. I will be a daytime empty nester (hard to believe my babies are in grades 1 & 3!!), I'm going to use those first couple weeks back at school to try to completely clean and organization my disaster, er, house. I'd love to create a homework area for the boys, & a message center for G, & really? The list is endless!! I also need to sort through the toy room. I KNOW there are toys in there that I can get rid of!! So, I will keep track of my progress on here. Aren't you readers oh so lucky?? Maybe some of my ideas will help you! Or, if you have any ideas, you could shoot them my way & help me :)
And now, to at least clear a path to the door & start laundry!!
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