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4 Weeks to a More Organized Home {Simplified}: Day Three Update

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Time for my day three update! Again…I’m a day late, but I’m trying to catch up. πŸ™‚

Here is how I did with theΒ Day 3 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great. — Done, and I didn’t get a picture snapped for day three, but I did for day four, which is coming.

:: Sit down with a cup of coffee or tea, refer to your list of weekly goals, and make a list of no more than 5-7 specific things you want to accomplish today. — Done, and I got all of my goals accomplished!

For the screencasts, I made one last night and discovered that I’d have to create more than one, so I created two more screencasts today. The screencasts are for a client project. I make them for clients to help them learn to navigate their new websites and also to help them understand how to use WordPress.

:: Set the timer for 10 minutes and do a quick-clean of your bedroom. — Done.

:: Set your timer for 10 minutes and do a quick clean-out of your freezer. — Done, and my freezer looks pretty bare before we stocked it again with food from our deep freezer, which we keep in the garage.

Here is the before picture:

Here is the after picture:

Clean freezer, and my husband brought in more food from our deep freezer to stock the kitchen freezer. I think I only threw away one thing – an opened bag of freezer burned pineapple.

That’s it!

I’m going to work on Day 4 today and get my progress posted asap.

Have you cleaned out your freezer lately?


4 Weeks to a More Organized Home {Simplified}: Day One Update

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For the next month I’m joining in Money Saving Mom’s 4 Weeks to More Organized Home {Simplified} series.

It’s all about completing small daily tasks to get organized, and I need a little more organization in my life right now.

Here’s how it works:

Crystal posts the assignments for us in the morning and we work on getting those tasks done during the day and blog about our progress in the evening. If you don’t blog about your progress, you can still join in and leave a comment letting us know how you did. πŸ™‚

Here is how I did with the Day 1 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great – Done. I wore jean capris and a nice fitting t-shirt.

:: Sit down with a cup of coffee or tea and make a list of 5-10 goals for this week. – I adjusted this to write some of the things that I needed to get done on my whiteboard calendar. If it’s there, there’s a high probability it will get done.

:: Set the timer for 15 minutes and quickly pick up the main living areas of your home. – I only got as far as the schoolroom with this goal, but I’m glad I got it done and thankful for the motivation. I had just cleaned the schoolroom before my sister-in-law’s visit recently, but the kids spend a lot of time in that room so it never stays clean for long.

Here’s my before picture:

Here it is after I spent time cleaning it:

:: Clean out your purse and/or diaper bag. – I chose to go through my purse, and I purged a bunch of expired coupons and other papers that needed to be thrown out.

That’s it. πŸ™‚

My Day 1 progress was technically supposed to be posted on Monday, but I didn’t have a chance to write the post before bed last night. So I’m posting it now, and I’ll get my Day 2 progress posted as soon as I can.

Are you joining in this series? How do you stay organized during this time of year?