spring cleaning

Organizing the Kitchen: Part 1 (Spring Cleaning)

04.27.2011

There are three Spring Cleaning areas that I’d like to tackle before the season passes us by – the kitchen, master closet, and office. I have the knowledge of how to get it done. But, I don’t feel right passing it along until I’ve actually tackled the areas myself. Progress has been slow, though. Actually, [...]

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Spring Cleaning: How to Organize Baby Clothes

04.14.2011

Since moving from our small space into a larger home, I’ve finally been able to some attention to the ever growing pile of baby items we’ve accumulated. Instead of randomly packing things up as they’re no longer useful, I pulled everything out and diligently sorted in a useful way. I’m certainly no expert in this [...]

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Spring Cleaning: 4 Steps to a More Organized Bathroom

04.04.2011

Have you already completed your first Spring Cleaning task for the season? If so, your well on your way to a more organized home and life! Today we’re going to focus on organizing the bathroom. We may not spend the majority of our time in that area of the home, but the time we do [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Reduce Clutter in 30 Minutes or Less

03.21.2011

Clutter. It happens to the best of us. We buy things we don’t need (hey, maybe it was a great deal). People leave things at our house. They give us gifts we don’t need. Random items sometimes just…appear. When it comes to Spring Cleaning it doesn’t matter why we have clutter; we just need to [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Do You Need a Little Motivation?

03.16.2011

For some reason warm weather seems to put a pep in our step. It gets us motivated to clean, organize, and get the chaos under control. We get excited about how our home could function and look. We actually want to work around our home! Unfortunately wanting to and actually doing are two completely different [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Summary & Document

04.20.2010

Photo Credit: abbylanes Our Spring Cleaning series is finally complete! My house is pretty clean right now (although I’m not sure how long it will actually stay that way!). I hope your house is too! If you’ll be deep cleaning a little later, here is a Spring Cleaning Document that you can use as a [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Perimeter of the House (Part 8)

04.18.2010

Congratulations! Today is the last day of Spring Cleaning! I’ve so enjoyed hearing from those of you that are following along! For the rest of you, feel free to use this Spring Cleaning series as a guide but, please, adjust where necessary and make it your own. Tomorrow I’ll be posting a Google doc that [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Bedrooms (Part 7)

04.15.2010

This is the second to last day of our Spring Cleaning challenge!! My house is starting to sparkle. How about yours? Photo Credit: nolaclutterbusters We’re finally moving on to the bedrooms! Today is an extremely important day to use your trash, donate, and sell boxes. As you move through each bedroom, make quick decisions regarding [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Kitchen (Part 6)

04.12.2010

There’s something about having a clean kitchen. When the dishes are put away and the counters are cleaned off, the rest of the house just feels better and more organized. Even though the kitchen is probably the one room that gets cleaned most often, today we’re going to really clean….deep clean….the kitchen! We don’t want [...]

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Spring Cleaning: Bathrooms (Part 5)

04.11.2010

Have you been Spring Cleaning with us? If so, I hope you can tell the difference in your home! We’re over half way finished so persevere, friend, persevere! Today we are concentrating on the Bathroom. Hopefully, you’ve already cleaned the floors and put a few bathroom items in the dishwasher for easy cleaning. If not, [...]