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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 5: Dishwasher/kitchen table/floor

July 27, 2018 No Comments
The Great Summer Purge & Clean, the kitchen

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 4: Microwave & cupboards

July 26, 2018 No Comments
The Great Summer Purge & Clean, the kitchen

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 3: Stove area

July 25, 2018 No Comments
The Great Summer Purge and Clean, day 3

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2018 GSPAC – Zone 1: Kitchen, Day 2: Fridge

July 24, 2018 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

The 2018 Great Summer Purge & Clean is UNDERWAY!

July 23, 2018 No Comments
Great Summer Purge and Clean

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 […]

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Find your “Shiny Sink”

July 21, 2018 No Comments
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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean is FINALLY coming!!

July 20, 2018 No Comments
Great Summer Purge and Clean

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Rebooting for a new year

July 29, 2015 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Kitchen

June 20, 2015 1 Comment

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: Yard Work

June 20, 2015 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

2015 Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Big Room

June 6, 2015 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean 2015 has started!!

May 26, 2015 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Getting back on the Purge and Clean horse

June 20, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Too hot for yard work

June 12, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Zone 1, Day 7: Table and floor, Great Summer Purge and Clean

June 7, 2014 No Comments

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, […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Zone 1, Day 5 & 6: Sink counters and cupboards, Great Summer Purge and Clean

June 5, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Zone 1, Day 4: Microwave area, Great Summer Purge and Clean

June 3, 2014 1 Comment

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 […]

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Zone 1, Day 3, Stove area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, DONE!

June 3, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Zone 1, Day 2, Fridge area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, DONE!

June 2, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Do the easy or small stuff first!!

June 1, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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The Great Summer Purge and Clean

Zone 1, Day 2, Fridge area, Great Summer Purge and Clean, Let’s GO!

June 1, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

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