Last week, I made a vow to our house. I promised everyday to do a cleaning task for 15 minutes so I won’t be spending so much time in the house on weekends cleaning. I really didn’t care that much before, but now that we will be hosting Thanksgiving in the house, my husband and I have made a goal to have our home spic and span for the holiday season! Hopefully, we can make this happen and hopefully, we can keep up with it afterwards.
Next weekend, we are holding a 3 family garage sale with his family. I was SO excited to bring over 4 boxes of clutter and be able to clean even more! I feel like Danny Tanner right now. Haha!
So, here was my Monday. Our kitchen island has been a mess of mail and other stuff. I decided to take some time to clean this up! I’m being bold and posting befores. Don’t judge me. :
About 10-15 short minutes later, using a mail organizer for our mail, I cleared up the clutter! Excuse my husband’s tools…we are still doing fix-up things around the house! So, they have to stay for now.
Tuesday, it was pretty boring. I ended up changing the sheets in our bedroom. No need for before/afters, since it’s just pale green vs. pale yellow sheets! Nothing exciting.
Wednesday, I decided to tackle the guest/craft room. This room was housing garage sale stuff, and my sister was going to sleep over this weekend, so I had to clean it. (She ended up changing her mind, but oh well, we have a clean room now!) This was more of a 30 minute task, but it’s done! Again, don’t judge my mess. 🙂
Here’s the after. There are still some garage sale items in the front of the room, but it’s MUCH better.
My poor sewing machine. I haven’t used it yet, because I need to learn to sew! Maybe I should make that a little goal of mine too!
Just to note, the bedsheets were in the washer at the time of the picture. 🙂
Oh gosh, this is the worst. I do my make-up and hair in the guest bedroom so my husband and I have separate bathrooms in the morning since we go to work at the same time. Our sink is full of make-up that dropped or powder remnants…I’m messy in the morning! Blech, I’ll say it again, don’t judge me! I ended up spending 15 minutes last night tackling the counter and sink!
Thanks to the magic of Comet, the sink is squeaky clean. That make-up was a pain to remove! I placed everything else in the cabinets below the counter.
I’m making my list for next week on what to tackle. I will be doing a little bit of cleaning this weekend, but not as much as I would have had to since I did these tasks during the week! Did anyone else tackle some small areas of the house this week?
I don’t have any before or after photos but I did clean! Currently while the hubby and I remodel we have 1 whole room to live in, for everything. So that is our living room/dining room/craft room/bedroom/game room/laundry room etc… Needless to say it feels like it’s never ending trying to keep it tidied up! I talked mail and filing this week! The amount of mail that piles up in a matter of a few days is overwhelming to say the least so I have set up a new system with the filing cabinet, mail organizer, shredder and paper recycling bag all together in the same location! We’ll see if it sticks!
I need to do a better mail system too. I find myself doing a huge pile of shredding every other week! Ugh…
I hope it works out for you!