Clean House Calendar Opens Etsy Store!

I'm so excited!  I opened the Clean House Calendar Etsy Store yesterday!

Currently, I only have one product.  But it is something you will love...

If you would like the full 2013 version of  the Clean House Calendar, it's only $10 and you can get it HERE.  Want to try before you buy?  Check out this post.

Have a great day, B.

Laundry Room Organization

Clean and organize the laundry room was one of the tasks listed on the Daily Task List for today in the Clean House Calendar.  So I wanted to share how I have organized the cabinets above my washer & dryer.

I am blessed to have 2 cabinets hanging above my washer & dryer where I store my laundry and cleaning supplies. 

I keep these supplies on the lower shelves and easy to reach.  On the upper shelves I have baskets (from Wal-Mart) that I use to store clothes pins, batteries, miscellaneous house hold items, sewing supplies, chargers, change rollers and at the present time some office supplies.

Here is a shot inside my sew supply basket.  I'm not a seamstress or a quilter so I only have the need for a few supplies to make easy repairs.  I have divided small like items into baggies to make them easier to find and then I just throw it all into the basket and place it on the shelf all nice and neat.

My labels aren't fancy.  I just printed them on card stock, cut them out, hole punched them and tied them on with ribbon.

If you would like to make some for your home and would like a copy of mine here is a PDF.

If you don't have a copy of the Clean House Calendar for 2013 you can check it out HERE.

Have a great day, B.

New Year, Renewed Goals

Happy New Year!  Can you believe it's 2013? 

The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my journey to getting my life clean, lean and serene.  It's simply what I'm doing.  The good, the bad and the oh so messy.  You're weclome follow along.  I hope you find inspiration here. 

I love New Year's Day because it give me the chance to start over.  A clean slate.  So with that in mind here are my renewed goals for the year:

• Deepen my faith and strengthen my relationship with God.  
• Strengthen my relationships with my family.
• Develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Get and keep my home clean and organized.
• Stretch my weekly budget using coupons.
• Develop a plan and prepare for emergencies.
• Complete at least 2 scrapbook layouts per week.

What are your goals?  B.

The Media Closet

Clean & organize the media closet is one of today’s tasks listed on the Get it Together, Already Cleaning Schedule.

You may be wondering what a media closet is.  Well, when we built our house we wanted our television on the wall above the fireplace but we didn’t want to see any cables or cable boxes or DVD players or any of that kind of stuff.  So along with an outlet we installed a cable outlet (well it was actually more that just a cable outlet but I don’t know all the technicalities of it) behind where the TV would hang and ran all the cables through the wall and ceiling to a small linen closet in the hall nearby. Then, we got a DVR and a DVD player with remotes that work through walls & doors & such that live in the media closet.  So that’s what a media closet is.  You may have an extra linen closet or a game closet or whatever.  If it’s an extra closet that hasn’t been cleaned yet and it’s not in a bedroom, it should get cleaned this week according to the schedule.

We use this closet to store the above-mentioned equipment as well as DVDs, board games, puzzles and a couple of blow-up mattresses.  For me, this is an easy clean so I didn’t take before pictures.  They would look very much like the after pictures below.  But here is a photo of all the stuff I ended up taking out.  

Yard sale goodies!

Here are the “after” photos.

I wanted to point out how we store our DVDs . . . in an old CD case.

I took them all out of their original cases, which I store in the basement storage closet, and then organized them by genres.  Or at least what I define as a genre.  Then I got some Post-it tabs similar to these at Staples and I labeled them with my handy dandy label-er, (one of the best gifts ever!)  And I stuck them on the edge of CD sleeve page when needed.

My genre labels are:

     Action

     Children & Family - which I sub-divided into:

            Cartoons

            Comedy

            Disney Classics

            Disney Fairies

            Disney Princesses

            Education

            Faith

            Family Animation

            Kids Music

            Musicals

            Sci-fi / Fantasy

     Classics

     Comedy

     Exercise

     Foreign

     Horror

     Music

     Romance

     Sci-fi /Fantasy

     Thriller

I hope you found this helpful.

Have a great day!  B.

Fall Cleaning Schedule Has Started!

The Fall Cleaning Schedule stared this week with today being the day to clean and organize the laundry room.

 Although my laundry room is in dire need of cleaning I didn't have enough time available today to tackle that task so I chose to jump a couple of weeks ahead and clean my coat/broom closet.  It was in pretty good shape to start with.  I quickly took everything out and swept, wiped down the shelf and baseboards, mopped and then I sorted through everthing  and replaced what I needed to keep.  Here is the finished closet:

First, let me apologize for the poor photos.  It's a tight space and I'm a poor photographer especially with my phone. 

I use the right side of the shelf to store out of season or rarely used items in clear storage boxes.

The left side is for cleaning supplies that I don't need on a daily/weekly basis and my hand held vacuum.  He's easier to find up there.

Under the shelf on the right side I keep our coats.  Tuck under them is my steam mop and carpet shampooer.  Ha, is that a word?  I guess it is.  Spell check didn't pick it up anyway.  Looks funny though.

Finally, on the left side I keep my vacuum, dusters, brooms and a few other household tools I need on occasion.  I also hang beach bags and infrequently used backpacks on this side.  Most of those haven't made it back in the closet yet.  My daughter and I need to go through those together when she gets home from camp today.

So there you have it my clean and organized coat/broom closet. 

Have a great day, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 31

Today is the last day of the 31 Day Organizational Challenge.  Today's challenge is to catch up on any challenges that aren't yet finished and then to walk through the house looking at what has been accomplished the month.

Have a great day, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Finish organizing paperwork.
23. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.
24. Clean & organize the coat closet. 
25. Clean & organize cookbooks in the kitchen. 
26. Clean & organize the kids’ craft/school supplies.
27. Clean & organize the cupboard under the sink in the kiddos' bath.
28. Clean & organize the cupboard under one master bathroom sink.
29. Clean & organize the cupboard under the other master bathroom sink.
30. Clean & organize the cupboard under the laundry room sink. 
31. Catch up on any challenges that aren't yet finished and then to walk through the house looking at what has been accomplished the month.
     

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 28-30

My weekend got kinda busy so here are the late challenges.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 28 -
     Clean and organize the cupboard under one master bath sink.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 29 -
     Clean and organize the cupboard under the other master bath sink.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 30 -
     Clean and organize the cupboard under the laundry room sink.

Have a great day,  B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 27

Today's challenge is to clean and organize the cupboard under the sink in the kiddos' bath.  About 6 months ago I reorganized this area but as you can see from the picture below something isn't working.

The most likely culprit being the kiddo herself.  However, she did get several items for Christmas that belong under here but I hadn't yet designated a home for them.  So maybe I should take a bit of blame myself.








Here is the after photo:

I elimated a few items.  Most of it went in the trash.  Consolidated a few items and grouped like items together. 

The biggest problems under here were my daughter's make-up which I consolidated into the black bag tucked in the back.  It's for play so it isn't out every day and as long as it all gets back in the bag I'll be happy.  The other issue was her nail supplies.  I managed to get all of those into one of the little blue baskets.  So now she can just take the basket out, do her thing, put it all back into the basket and put the basket back.  She should be able to handle that.

So that's it.  Today's challenge - done.

Have a great day, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Finish organizing paperwork.
23. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.
24. Clean & organize the coat closet. 
25. Clean & organize cookbooks in the kitchen. 
26. Clean & organize the kids’ craft/school supplies.
27. Clean & organize the cupboard under the sink in the kiddos' bath.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 26

The Daily Task List for today in the Get It Together, Already Planner/Organizer says to clean and organize the kitchen for one hour.  So I choose a challenge in my kitchen.  Today’s challenge is to clean and organize the kids’ craft/school supplies.  I have 2 drawers in my kitchen for this purpose.  The kitchen is where my daughter does her homework and in many cases her crafting.  Thus, making it a good location for her supplies.

I did a big reorganization in this area about a year and a half ago so mine was “organized” but it needed some sprucing up.  We have recently just kind of thrown stuff in there rather than put it in its place. 

Here are the after photos:

 Top Drawer

 Bottom Drawer

I got the idea of how to organize this area during the Back to School sales a couple of years ago.  Pencil boxes are cheap at that time of year and they were the perfect size for most of our needs.  So I went through all of our collected supplies and decided how many boxes we needed, purchased the number needed and started organizing.  After I got them arranged in the drawer I realized I needed a few more boxes to fill out the last column.  So I purchased those and stuck empty boxes in the drawer knowing we would eventually use them.  Today I finished filling them.  In the picture the last column is missing a box.  That box is for pencils, which I currently have in my Girl Scout stuff.  An added benefit of having our supplies organized this way is being able to at a moments notice grab supplies and go.  To Girl Scout meetings, Sunday school, class parties, wherever, I’m ready to go.

If you wanted to do this as well, I think medium rectangle Ziplock containers might also work well.   Of course your supplies are different than mine but I thought you might find my list of boxes helpful.  They are kind of arranged in alphabetical order.

Bells

Craft Sticks

Crayons

Erasers

Feather

Fiber (yarn, ribbon & such)

Foam letters

Fun Foam – Miscellaneous (not stickers)

Glitter

Glitter Glue

Glue

Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

Googlie Eyes

Highlighters

Key Rings

Fat Markers

Multicultural Markers

Thin Markers

Paint

Paint Brushes

Paint Pens

Paper Doilies

Plastic Letters

Pens

Pencils

Colored Pencils (2 boxes)

M-S-XS Pom-Poms

XL-L Pom-Poms

Scissors

Shells

Next to the pencil boxes is construction paper and paper plates in baggies and “Sharpie” type markers.  The container up front has “Math Tools” – flash cards, wrap-ups, rulers, protractor, beans, plastic coins, etc.

In the bottom drawer I keep unopened school supplies in the light blue-lidded box and fabric, felt and pipe cleaners in the dark.  The Ziplock containers have various kinds of Fun Foam stickers.  Finally there is a pile of old catalogs & magazines to cut out of and some plastic cups for whatever we might need them for.

So that’s it ...our craft/school supply area.

Have a great day,

Britia

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Finish organizing paperwork.
23. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.
24. Clean & organize the coat closet. 
25. Clean & organize cookbooks in the kitchen. 
26. Clean & organize the kids’ craft/school supplies.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 25

Today's challenge is to clean and organize the cookbooks in the kitchen.

I started to go do this really fast and then post before and after pics but one thing led to another and now this project is going to take awhile.  So I will post photos later.

Now I've got to go get to work, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Finish organizing paperwork.
23. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.
24. Clean & organize the coat closet. 
25. Clean & organize cookbooks in the kitchen.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 24

Today's challenge is to clean and organize the coat closet.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Finish organizing paperwork.
23. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.
24. Clean & organize the coat closet.

Now I've got to go get to it.

Have a great day, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 23 & Planner Typo

Wow, what a weekend.  On Saturday I attended Scrap-A-Palooza.  A 13-hour crop held here in Springfield.  Then yesterday I rested.  I'm not sure what I did the day before that was so tiring but I was exhausted yesterday. 

I will post my creations later this week.once I've got my craft room (which is currently a disaster area from planning for the crop) cleaned up enough to get to my new layouts.  That is my main focus for the day.  I'm going to put off my usual weekly cleaning until tomorrow in order to get things back to normal.

The Daily Task List for tomorrow in the Get It Together, Already Planner/Organizer (get yours here) is to clean & organize the media closet.  Which is a mistake.  It should say coat closet.  You'll notice it also says media closet on the 31st. 

Today's challenge relates to tomorrow's task.  Today's challenge is to review your coat closet and purchase any organizational products you might need to complete this task tomorrow.  From the looks of mine I need to pick-up some hangers and a small plastic container to hold travel pillows. 

Have a great day, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork. 
20. Continue organizing paperwork.
21. Continue organizing paperwork.
22. Continue organizing paperwork.
23. Finish organizing paperwork.
24. Determine any organization supplies needed for the coat closet and get them.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 20 - 22

Wow I can't believe how much paper I need to deal with. So the challenge for today and the rest of the weekend is to finish organizing the paperwork I started yesterday.

Have a great weekend, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 19

Today's challenge is to organize all paperwork.  Here is my main focus:

Check back later to see how it's improved.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.
19. Organize all paperwork.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 18

I still have a few items from Christmas that I need to exchange.  So that's today's challenge.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.  Then have a great day with your hobby.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet. 
18.  Take care of  any items from Christmas that need to be returned or exchanged.

Enjoy, B.

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 17

Good Morning!

Today's challenge can be found on the Get It Together, Already Planner/Cleaning Schedule  If you haven't got yours yet you can download it here.  Today's challenge is to clean and organize the linen closet.

I will update this post later with pics of my progress.  Check back.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.
17. Clean & organize the linen closet.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Day 16

Today's challenge is to clean and organize one of those kitchen drawers you purchased organizational supplies for over the weekend.

Check back later to see pics of mine.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.
16. Clean and organize one of the kitchen drawers you purchased supplies for yesterday.

Britia

Update:

Ok it’s confession time.  Today for the 31 Day Organizational Challenge I cleaned and organized our candy drawer she says in a whispered voice.  I have purchased candy for various events over the last few months and we haven’t eaten it all.  And so since most candy doesn’t go bad very quickly I have just stuck what we had left in baggies and shoved it in a drawer.  Thus, was born, the candy drawer.

I forgot to take a before picture so imagine this and more all packed in baggies and thrown in a drawer.

At this point I have sorted the candy and thrown out anything old or that we won’t eat.  I also had a lot of candy that wasn’t wrapped so I divided it into serving sizes in snack baggies.  Easy to grab and put in a lunch box for dessert.

Then I went shopping for my organizers.  I went specifically for drawer organizers but found they were way expensive.  It was going to cost me about $50 for one drawer!  Yikes!!!  So I decided to go with Ziplock storage containers.  I chose medium size rectangles and divided rectangles.  I ended up paying about $12.  Still pricey, but doable.  Here is what I ended up with.

Hopefully, now, when we want something sweet we will be able to find it.  Who knows maybe it will even turn into a healthy snack drawer like I see on other blogs.  Yeah, you’re right … get real, already!

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Days 14 - 15

Wow,  yesterday was so busy that I completely forgot about the challenge until after dinner and by then it was just too late.  I'm going to call that and oops day.

I'm going to spend the next few days preparing for an upcoming crop.  So I wanted my challenges to be fast and easy for the weekend.  Here's what I've come up with...next Tuesday is the day to clean and organize the linen closet and I keep a lot more than linens in mine, so I need some organizational supplies for the other stuff, so that is the challenge for today to determine what I need and get it. 

Along those same lines I have a drawer or two or three in my kitchen which is also in need of organizational supplies so that is my challenge for tomorrow is to decide what is needed and purchase it.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer. 
13. Oops day.
14. Determine any organizational supplies needed for the linen closet and get them.
15. Determine any organizational supplied needed for the kitchen drawers and purchase them.

.Have a great weekend,
Britia

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Day 12

Today's challenge is to clean out the junk drawer.  Mine wasn't in too bad of shape.  Here is the before photo:

I took everything out, wiped out the drawer, cleaned out and organized the drawer organizer & the take out menu organizer, and put almost everything back in it's original spot.  I was able to find a location for the push pins in the drawer organizer so I was able to get rid of the box for that and I relocated the mouse.  We don't need him in the kitchen any longer.

Here is the after photo:

I realize there isn't much difference but I needed an easy day.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1. Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.
2. Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.
3. Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  
4. Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.
5. Make a menu plan for the month of January.
6. Start cleaning out the email account(s).
7. Finish cleaning out the email account(s).
8. Clip and organize coupons.
9. Clean & organize the computer desktop.
10. Catch- up day.
11. Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.
12. Clean & organize the junk drawer.

I hope you have an easy day as well,
Britia

31 Day Organizational Challenge - Day 11

My challenge today is to clean & organize my scrapbook supplies that live in my crop totes.  If you are participating in the 31 Day Organization Challenge pick a portion of your craft supplies to clean up and organize today.

31 Day Organizational Challenge – Challenge List

1.     Take down, organize and put away all of the holiday decorations.

2.   Make your 2012 financial file folders and store your 2011 financial files.

3.   Clean/Organize the surface of your crafting area.  

4.   Gather, download, print & organize your photos from last month.

5.   Make a menu plan for the month of January.

6.   Start cleaning out the email account(s).

7.      Finish cleaning out the email account(s).

8.      Clip and organize coupons.

9.      Clean & organize the computer desktop.

10.  Catch- up day.

11.  Clean & organize a portion of your craft supplies.

 

Have a great day,
Britia