Over the weekend a friend suggested a blog called 'the organised housewife' which was very inspiring. If any of you read my blog while I was in my nesting phase of pregnancy you will find that this would have been right up my alley.
Friends, past house mates, colleagues, ex boyfriends and current husbands would probably testify that I was never a clean and tidy person. When I met my husband I made a big change in myself. But I had never been the one for grot. I can't stand mould and foul smells. Admittedly, I have had a problem with clutter, and that's probably because I am a hoarder. When I left Bendigo for Melbourne I probably threw out or donated 80% of my 'stuff'. I had a 2 bedroom house in Bendigo, I was downsizing for one small room in a sharehouse of 5. From then on I quit my hoarding and even though now that we have a big home in the outer suburbs I want to keep it that way!
When everything feels cluttered so do I!
Ah, so back to the blog that I've discovered. There's this thing called The 20 Day Challenge to Organise and Clean your Home. Unfortunately I've only discovered it at day 11. But never fear, I still want to join in. I could start at Day 1 but then I wouldn't have the daily motivation of getting things done and will end up on the back burner, and, yes. Burn.
So I'm stating at Day 11. And if I miss a day, it's alright!
Here were todays tasks in a nutshell:
- Clean the washing Machine
- Declutter under the laundry sink
- Reorganise the linen cupboard
- Create a 'one in One' out system
For more details check out day 11.
Our laundry is very unorganised, and I think it comes from a lack of cupboard space. I decided to tackle the whole laundry and skip the linen cupboard, as I had tackled that when I was nesting.
Here's how it went:
As you can see below, random things were chucked on top of the washing machine. The fake flowers where from a year 2 student who would now be in year 4. There's a broken door knob, detergant, the washing machine manual, rolls of wipes...
And tadaa! I left the flowers there and a little saying thing. I added a little bin because my theory is if it's not there I'm more than likely to leave tags and tissues just lying around. I've left the detergent there as I have it in a particular spot whereby I just tip it and it goes straight into the dispenser.
Now the inside of the machine. I didn't bother doing the whole clean through cycle as it's not really that bad but I did give the dispenser part a clean out as it was getting festy. (I never use prewash, how is it that it's gone mouldy?)
And onto the cupboard. There had been build up down the bottom so I got in and scrubbed that off and got rid of the dirt that was building up in creases. (I want to get in and give it a good scrub next time).
And a general de clutter of the bathroom, here's a before and after:
But what about that box? Well inside it was full of shoes I haven't worn for 2 years. I'm going to go through them and send some to the op shop.
And as for the fate of the box? It's a temporary Luke box. I mean toy box!
No comments:
Post a Comment