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Seeing the clutter with new eyes | Dinner guests
Well, I have a cleared island, and a mostly decluttered kitchen and living room, but I’m not that happy about it. Can you guess why? A bunch of the clutter was just moved to a different location. What...
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Hot Spot Check Up: Kitchen Island
I do love my kitchen island. And I love to put stuff there. Lots of it. Everyone does. If you came over, I bet you would put something there. It’s a big clutter hot spot for me. It’s a nice big flat...
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Hot Spot Check Up 2: Kitchen Island, and Thanks! (I’m talking to you!)
Time to check on the island! I decided that I would give myself a deadline and take a picture at 10:00AM today. Just for fun, I took a picture last night at 10:00PM. Here it is: Let's just say we...
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Hot Spot Check Up 4: Kitchen Island – and a picture question
Here I am at the 4th week of my kitchen island hot spot check up, and as much as I didn’t want to start it, I actually don’t want to stop! If you want to catch up a bit, here are links to the first 3...
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Hot Spot Check Up 5: Kitchen Island
Here’s the picture for today: Not great, but of course it has been much worse. I generally like to keep things light around here, but I have to tell you that I’ve had a tough day today. I’ve been...
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Play Date Clean Up | Before and After!
A couple of weeks ago I invited my MOPS group over for a play date. Doing things like that is a stretch for me, mostly because my home is not usually ready to be seen by the outside world. But I love...
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Hot Spot Check Up: Desk | Week 6
Every week I post about a clutter hot spot in my home. I’m currently working on my desk, including a box of paper clutter I filled up from the desk several weeks ago. OK! I’m feeling some good...
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Cleaning the Kids’ Room | Before and After
Two signs it’s time to clean the kids’ room: 1. Everywhere you look is a jumbled mess. 2. You can’t even get to the closet. The Process: I started by simply sending the kids (ages 7 and 5) upstairs to...
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Hi There, Kitchen Counters!
Tsh from Simple Mom was doing her Project Simplify in the kitchen last week, and I decided to join in. My kitchen counters were drowning in clutter and I needed to save them. And that is just what I...
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4 Things I’ve Learned and My New Cleaning Schedule
4 things I’ve learned in the past year: 1. Maintenance is key 2. Planning is important 3. Cleaning and decluttering go hand-in-hand (I didn’t want to admit that for a long time!) 4. Accountability is...
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