Sorry for the silence, but last week ended up getting BUSY. I had a very long Tuesday with a meeting I forgot about after work until 8:30 and missed my free Thursday morning when my colleague was sick and I was asked to come in early to see some of his patients. This week has continued to be busy as the baby bear didn't start daycare because her pediatrician rescheduled her appointment I wanted to give her time to build immunity after her shots.
Even with all that I've made it up to Day 12 and have only missed one day and rescheduled one day! I planned my kitchen pantry for last Thursday morning (no husband, no bug, perfect time to get some real cleaning done), but went to work instead. My pantry is a HUGE project (see below) so I doubled up on Sunday and cleaned the kitchen storage shelves to free up this Thursday.
Here's my progress...
Day 3 - Entry/Coats
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| BEFORE: Too many coats, a guitar, too many shoes, and general clutter! |
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| AFTER: Coats not in use moved to basement, shoes moved to bedroom, craft supplies moved to where they belong, peds textbooks brought to my office, and I finally parted with my emergency code cards and ID holder from residency:-( |
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| Before: Too many books and general disarray |
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| AFTER: I cleaned up by separating books into catergories: 1. Books we read all the time, 2. Books we never read, 3. Books we read sometimes, and 4. Books we have doubles of. Catergory 1 stayed on the shelf and got organized. Caterory 2 got donated to my office waiting room. Catergory 3 got moved to the small toy organizer in the playroom. Catergory 4 got moved to a storage bookshelf downstairs in the basement |
Day 5 - Pantry
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| Do you SEE this monstrosity?!...POSTPONED until 1/17 |
Day 6 - Toy Box
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| BEFORE: You can't even tell how much junk is in this toy box because it is just full to the top! |
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| AFTER: Oh so organized! Junk paper discarded, playdoh returned to the playroom, markers/crayons/stickers all organized into plastic bags/bins to make for easy crafting, and books organized so we can see all the titles easily |
I have a lot of cabinets, so I tried to just snap photos of the biggest changes...
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| BEFORE: Literally eight dozen cookie cutters, hundreds of cupcake liners, over a dozen bottles of sprinkles, entertaining dishes, and other assorted baking and candy making supplies |
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| AFTER: Cookie cutters moved to a bin in the basement. Cupcake liners and candy bags on the left, sprinkles (yes, those are ALL sprinkles) on the right |
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| AFTER: Sprinkles moved and everything else straightened up |
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| BEFORE: Too many dishes and gadgets we don't use. |
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| AFTER: Items not in use put in storage, everything else re-organized |
No photos of the dressers, but I went through the girls' drawers to weed out too small clothes. Here's the kitchen organizer...
BEFORE: TONS of craft supplies and papers littered all over the top of the shelves and in some of the lower cubbies
AFTER: Craft supplies condensed with ultimate goal to move them into the craft bins in the basement on "craft supply" organization day. Other shelves cleaned up with organized
Day 9 & 10 - Make-up Bag and Jewelry Box
Small, quick clean-up projects not worth photographing:-)
Day 11 - Bedroom Closets
This is the day I missed and will add it to my Sunday organization as my fridge and freezer are pretty easy as I obsessively organize them once a week already.
Day 12 - Kitchen Pantry
This is one area that I tend to "let go" on a week to week basis and end up needing to really clean up every few months. In addition to all the cluttered shelves you can see, on both sides of the closet are deep narrow wooden shelves that accumulate SO MUCH junk!
BEFORE: Too many boxes with just a little bit of food left in them, bags and a spilled bag of stellatine pasta all over the floor, and a disgusting amount of candy given to the bug hidden in one of the deep shelves on the upper right
AFTER: I went through all the boxes of crackers/cookies/etc and anything with less than 5 portions got divded into snack size ziploc baggies and the boxes recycled. I threw away an insane amount of candy we have built up since October (the last time I purged the sugar supply) - if we let bug eat all the candy she was given she would be a poster child for childhood obesity. I moved everything out and reorganized a bunch of the baking/candy supplies that were scattered about and swept up the spilled pasta and M&Ms.
And that's it! Tonight will be the linen closet which is teeny and not very exciting, so don't expect photos. I'll check back in with more photos, tips, and progress in a few days.
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