You would not believe how happy I am with myself right now. It's not even 9:30 in the morning and my kids are dressed, I got Colin to work on time, we've all had breakfast, I've got the dishwasher unloaded, loaded, and started, I've switched out and folded a batch of laundry (which brings me to [...]
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I just planted 52 red pansies in my front yard planter. I also sprayed down the front of the house with the hose, as Mark suggested. It looks very nice, if I do say so myself. Colin started taking down the christmas lights, but it's raining outside so he didn't finish and there are strands [...]
We're moving to Arkansas, so we're selling our wonderful house here. It goes on the market today for $315,000. I'm overwhelmed with the idea of getting and keeping the house clean and packed, but it's got to be done (no, it's not done yet). And it'll be nice to live in a pristine place. This [...]
Today I spent a couple of good hours cleaning the house. Pretty much every room is close to presentable, including the basement! For me, this is an accomplishment. I feel so peaceful when things are orderly that I'm sure if I could just remember the feelings I have when things are clean I wouldn't mind [...]
I'm feeling a little boring today, so I'm going to tell you about my accomplishment from yesterday. Yesterday I cleaned the laundry room. I wiped down the washer and dryer, emptied the garbage (it really needed to be emptied, too), swept and mopped the floor. Then I threw out all the old empty bottles of [...]
Cleaning Grand Plan
Posted in Cleaning, Home, Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 24th, 2007
Another site I discovered in my quest to learn to wash my dishes is www.holidaygrandplan.com. It’s a plan written by Katie Leckey for cleaning and decluttering your house from top to bottom, one section at a time over 18 weeks. I think it was orignally meant to just clean your house (spring and fall cleaning, [...]
Flylady.net
Posted in Cleaning, People I Like, Things I Like on Feb 24th, 2007
I am not good at washing dishes, vacuuming, or doing laundry. I’m one of those people whose natural reflex is to ignore my housework until I can’t stand it anymore, then wait some more because I’m ovewhelmed, then wait till I have a whole day to work on it, then spend a whole day making [...]