Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A house of order

I am not a good house keeper. It's a fact. I'm just not good at keeping up on housework. I am however, a really really good procrastinator. I love to read...and crochet...and knit...and facebook...get my point? I also live with 3 very, um untidy, boys.

Well, now I have this new house. A new house that Shane and I built. Actually built, with our hands and sweat and blood. This house took (and is still taking) a lot of work to build. And I would love for it to stay as nice as it was the day we moved in.

Since we moved in, I have been a lot better at keeping up with all the everyday stuff. That's not to say things don't get messy around here. But it usually gets cleaned up in a reasonable amount of time. What is bugging me right now are the storage spaces. All the drawers, cupboards and cabinets that get filled up with random stuff. I feel cluttered and disorganized and I am no where near using my space to the best of it's ability.

So this is the beginning of the end of clutter in my home. (stop laughing, I know I'll have to do this again in the future) My goal is to clean out all our nooks and crannies before 2011 starts.

I started with the Media Room. We don't spend much time in there, so it was pretty easy to tidy up and vacuum all the dust that, for some reason, clings to electronics. My brother once told me, the most important rooms to keep clean are your bedroom and bathroom, because you relax in those rooms. I think he's right so I moved on to my bathroom next.

I NOW HAVE TWO COMPLETELY CLEAN AND CLUTTER FREE ROOMS! YAH ME!

I got my bedroom all clean, but the master closet is scaring me so I decided to skip that and move on to the kitchen. Before I deep clean the kitchen I had to make apple juice.



Now I can put all the canning supplies away for the season and get to work!

Wish me luck!
I'm gonna need it!