Today wrapped up the first week of my 5th Annual Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Kitchen Zone. Today I focused on cleaning/organizing the top of my dishwasher (it’s a portable, and a magnet for piles of crap), cleaning the […]
2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 4: Microwave & cupboards
Moving on to the microwave and cupboards around… I forgot to take a before pic of the microwave, so I didn’t bother with an after pic. It’s just a microwave. But I did take pics of the cupboards. These are […]
2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 3: Stove area
Ok, we are in the stove area today…this means the stove and the cupboards above and next to, including my junk drawer…Plus I tacked on the cupboards below the kitchen sink into this area as well. I even opened up […]
2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 2: Fridge
Today I tackled my fridge and freezer and some cupboards in the nearby area. I KICKED BUTT!! Luckily we are quite short on food right now, so this job was a lot easier than it could have been. Here’s […]
The 2018 Great Summer Purge & Clean is UNDERWAY!
FIRST ZONE: THE KITCHEN I feel like I’ve not done this in awhile…I waited quite awhile this summer before getting going on this (life happened)…and the past 2 years have not really happened gung ho. I’m DETERMINED to make this […]
Find your “Shiny Sink”
As I prepare to start yet another Great Summer Purge and Clean, I am reminded of the Flylady and her “shiny sink” philosophy… …and I went in search of a good article to refer people to about this […]
The Great Summer Purge and Clean is FINALLY coming!!
Today’s the day I finally sort out this year’s “Great Summer Purge and Clean”. I have had so much I have been working on already this summer, I haven’t had time to think much of this yet!! But I’m NOT […]
Rebooting for a new year
So my Purge and Clean is done for the summer….yes, I sucked at blogging about it…maybe I’ll drag out some more pics and blog some more about it soon, if I can find the time…but suffice it to say that […]
2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Kitchen
Weeks 2 and 3 were The Kitchen…dun dun DUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!! My kitchen was seriously TUH. RASHED! (trashed) It was. For real. I didn’t take any before pics. Intentionally. It was embarassing. Our family is horrible about cleaning up after ourselves in […]
2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: Yard Work
At the same time that I am working on a new zone each week….I am working on a section of my yard every week…in 15min a day because it’s too flippin HOT to do any more (plus I seriously hate […]
2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Big Room
For anyone not familiar with my annual Purge and Clean, please visit this page for all the info. And read the start of this year here. So….to continue…..apparently I suck at throwing up pics as I go too….but I’ll keep trying….here’s […]
The Great Summer Purge and Clean 2015 has started!!
Because it takes so long for me to write stuff up sometimes and to edit pics with “before” and “after” captions…so much that I don’t post as often as I could…I’m going to try something new…I’m going to throw up […]
Getting back on the Purge and Clean horse
I haven’t written in awhile because life got away from me for awhile there. But I’m getting back on track again, so I thought I’d update what I’ve been up to with my Great Summer Purge and Clean. Week 2 […]
Too hot for yard work
So this week has been a bit of a wash in terms of my Purge and Clean. I may get out there today to accomplish something, but I have a podcast to produce that’s supposed to be out Saturday and […]
Zone 1, Day 7: Table and floor, Great Summer Purge and Clean
Well the last day of the kitchen zone was highly successful! I didn’t think I had it in me, but I made it through transforming my grungy kitchen floor into a clean floor! Also cleared and scrubbed our kitchen table, […]
Zone 1, Day 5 & 6: Sink counters and cupboards, Great Summer Purge and Clean
Day 5 & 6 of my purge and I still am mainly doing cleaning…not so much purging. Mostly because I have so very much that is competing in my life right now, that I just haven’t had the time to […]
Zone 1, Day 4: Microwave area, Great Summer Purge and Clean
Well things are still coming along, but I’m getting a little knocked off track by life. But I still kicked butt on this area! Didn’t get to the inside of the cupboards yet, but they are not actually all that […]
Zone 1, Day 3, Stove area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, DONE!
Well I’m exhausted. Seriously! The kitchen is darn near killing me! But I knew it would. It’s always the messiest part of my house and I wanted to do it first because I was just sick of looking at it […]
Zone 1, Day 2, Fridge area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, DONE!
Phew! What a day! I was so pooped out from all the work I did yesterday that I didn’t have it in me to post this update! So here I am, the morning of day 3, posting my day 2 […]
Do the easy or small stuff first!!
While getting started on my fridge, I’m thinking thinking thinking (despite the podcast playing in my ears…seriously, my brain never shuts off!), and I wanted to share for those that haven’t thought of this. DO THE EASY STUFF FIRST!! When […]
Zone 1, Day 2, Fridge area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, Let’s GO!
Zone: Kitchen Mini-Zone: Refrigerator and cupboard above. I’m really revealing my dirty laundry to y’all here. Well dirty fridge. This is me baring it all. This is the state of my fridge currently: There is a smell eminating from somewhere […]