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 kitchen table (which wasn’t actually too bad, for a change), and thoroughly steam cleaning the kitchen floor…which was pretty bad, […]
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 my dish cupboards and my pots/pans and kitchen appliance cupboards. Plus my utensils drawers and my lid drawer… and a […]
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 my stove and cleaned all the grime that gathers under the burners from spillage. GROSS! Also replaced all the aluminum […]
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 my before and after pics, side by side: You can’t really tell from the before pic, […]
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 year’s GSPAC really COUNT! And I really want to blog the experience fully, for those that want to follow along… […]
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 philosophy… But I didn’t find anything that really resonated with me. So, of course, I had to write my own… […]
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 ditching it! I’ve been thinking of switching tracks with my son’s homeschool charter so we can start school in […]
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 I KICKED some serious BUTT on my house! I am VERY PLEASED with the outcome!! If you’d like to see my […]
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 the kitchen, so it was gross, y’all. But I knew it would get cleaned, so I didn’t stress….I knew all […]
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 yard work, but I can talk myself into just doing 15min.) Yes, I really am being THAT industrious. We are […]
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 big post that I wanted to put up about last week…. The room we call our “Big Room” is […]
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 pics as they are happening. Then maybe I’ll tie it all up in an end of the week post with […]
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 (Jun 6-13) I made a change in my plan because I found out that our street was having it’s “Big […]
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 I’ve not begun editing, so I may end up just using the rest of this week for catchup. I did […]
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, which I had cleared off earlier in the week but hadn’t actually scrubbed. Hard to tell with the floor, because […]
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 open up those cupboards. But the outside messes definitely needed to be attended to. If worse comes to worse and […]
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 bad right now, so I’m not going to stress. What I DID accomplish in this area: The obvious messy counter. […]
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 and wading through the mess. But now I’m starting to feel like I should have followed my “start with something […]
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 update. Better late than never, right? My fridge was a gunky MESS, lemme tell ya! The biggest job was cleaning […]
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 I was a kid, I wanted to do the hard stuff first so that I could get it over with […]
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 within and I aim to tackle this monster today! Gearing up for quite a battle! Wish me luck! If you […]
Today’s Zone: Kitchen Today’s Mini-Zone: Sink and dishwasher What a day! It’s not over yet, but my mini-zones for the day are DONE! How’d you do? Here’s my before and after pics of today’s work areas: All scrubbed and wiped and cleared out/off! And now I have a clean area to look to when I start feeling discouraged about the […]
I’m jazzed to get started! Are you joining me? If so, if you join my mailing list, I’ll send you updates and encouraging emails to help keep you going! Today my spreadsheet says I’m starting with my sink and my dishwasher. I took some before pictures so you can see what I’m dealing with: My sink always seems to be […]
Living Room Day 1: Entertainment Center and Picture Books bookshelf OK, entertainment center…I didn’t remember to take a “before” pic until after I had started working on it…so here’s what I have in the midst of the reorganizing: We had TOO MANY videos and dvds! I purged a bunch of them and donated to our homeschool charter all the […]
So this week I’m tackling my living room. Oh what a MESS! But by looking only at one small section at a time, I have learned that I can really get down to business and not feel overwhelmed! So here’s my schedule for this week: Day 1: Entertainment Center and picture bookshelf Day 2: Desk/Desk area Day 3: Hutch […]
Week 1: Kitchen Day 5: Counters/W. Cupboards Day 6: Walls/Ceiling/Window/Sill Day 7: Floor/Table/Chairs I’m compiling the last 3 days into one post because I didn’t take very many pics. 🙁 So in Day 4‘s post, you can see the “Before” pics of what the counters looked like prior to Day 5. Well, some of the counters. I didn’t take […]
Today I worked on my icky microwave and the cupboards around it. Here’s the ick I started off with: And here’s how it looks now! I was also able to get rid of several appliances I never use anymore because of various things wrong with them. Made enough room in that bottom cupboard that I was able to […]
Today was another successful day! I was able to completely reorganize the cupboards above my stove! This area was really a mess before, but you’ll have to take my word for it because once again I forgot to take a “before” pic. Here’s my “after” shot, though! All neat and tidy and organized in those cupboards now! Not a lot […]
This week’s zone: The Kitchen Today I worked on the refrigerator. Oh. My. God. That was a LOT of work! It was so disgusting!! Took me HOURS!! In these before and after pics of the outside, it doesn’t look as dramatic as it could have been because most of the work was on the inside. But notice all the garbage […]
This week’s zone: The Dreaded Kitchen (The worst room in our house, as well as the most important room, and hence, must be tackled first!) When I planned out this room, I started from one area and worked my way around, for the most part. I did start with a simple area, though, because the first day coincided with […]
