etsy

shiny sink announcement

I want to make a quick announcement about this blog I am going to have to put it on hold.  There is a lot going on right now here and I just need a break but I am going to still be having videos posted on my YouTube channel and I will make a post here to go along with them.  I am going to take a break but I will still be around.   Thank you for your support.

Shining Sink 365 Day 56

So for today I am going to talk about the rooms that some of us have in our homes and some of us may not.  These are the office, craft  room, toy room spare room, and other rooms like this.  For me the office is the hardest one to keep clean.  We have one room that is my husbands office and then my office is a desk in the dining room.  I find that if the kids put one paper on the desk it seems to grow and then I have a hot spot that is burning out of control.  A hot spot is a place where you drop things and that needs to be go through and things put away.  I do not have drawer in desk so I think that makes it harder so I have had to come up with neat ways to organize my desk I have a video on this and I will link it here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCu1oCHfKE  What we need to do to start in this space is get out your give away put away and toss bags and quickly go threw the things on the desk and then move to the cabinets and the drawers then look at the floor empty the trash and then things should be looking better.

A craft room is just the same as the office move quickly and things will be looking up in no time.  The spare room may be a room that you keep extra clothes in so you may have to do it just like you do the bed room but make this room warm and inviting for guest that may come to visit.

Now the toy room that is a different ball game all together.  I just did a over haul of this and there will be a video of the after to come and some pictures that will be linked to that but lets just say get lots of trash bags and give away bags ready and do not keep more than you have space for.  I have three shelves and the things that my kids have must fit on the shelf and things have a place they are not just thrown on the shelf.  You will have to find what works for you and your kids and this will have to do with their age to.  Good luck I know that this is a hard area to organize and it took me almost 7 years to get the right system down and lots of help from my husband.  Take it slow and easy and these rooms will be clean in no time

For more information check out the flylady at www.flylady.net

Shining Sink 365 Day 55

We are still decluttering for a few more days.  We have more main areas in our house to look at.  Well really there is only one more main room and then some optional rooms.  Okay so the last main room is the bed room or bed rooms this will depend on your home and your needs.  In the bed room there are several places to declutter the closet the dressers the under the bed and if you have a vanity in this room this area to.  So get out your bags and start where you feel is the easiest for you for me this is dresser.  Do this just as we have done in the other rooms.  Keep Toss and Give away fill the bags and take the give away to the car and trash out then put the things in the keep bag away if there is not room to put it away rethink what you have in this space.  You can not keep anything that will not fit in the area.  Now the under the bed is a little different lets keep little to nothing under here.  I need this space to keep the out of season things but I keep them in two under the bed totes.  These are the only things that I have under my bed.  That is it.  It will be easy once you dive in.  You can do this and it will not be as bad as you think.  And look at it this way there will be less laundry to do when you purge the clothing.  :-)  Happy Decluttering.

For more information check out flylady at www.flylady.net

Shining Sink 365 Day 52

I want to start by saying I am going to move my post to morning post and they will be on a one day delay.  It is getting to be to much on me to write a blog and post the picture at night while I am trying to get the kids in bed and my BBR done.  Thank you for following me and if you like these blogs please click follow and you will be updated when a new post is published.

Now for the blog.   We are going to continue to declutter and today we are going to look at our hall closets.  I have two one as soon as you come in my front door and one in the hall outside the bathroom.  I am going to look at both of these today.  Lets look in these closets and get rid of the stuff that we no longer love or need lets toss the trash and put everything back in orderly.  I like to use organizing tools in these area.  I have over the door organizer hung on the closet rods.  I also like to use the small clear shoe size totes.  Play with this and have fun.

For more information check out flylady at www.flylady.net

Shining sink 365 Day 50

I want to start by saying I am sorry about the lack of a blog yesterday I was very distracted and forgot all about posting yesterday.  I want to go ahead and get right into the area of decluttering today  We are going to work on the Living Room.  There is not a lot of decluttering to do in this room there are only two main areas to look at and they are both small and easy so I want to address both of them in this blog.  The first area is the tables lets look and see what is on them is there trash that needs to be thrown away and is there mags that need to be purged.  Do this quick.  Next lets move on to the nick nacks are there to many.  Lets go through them and see if we need to get rid of a few.  Go through these quick and see if we can purge any.  This is a small task so let get going.

For more information check out Flylady at www.flylady.net

Shining sink 365 Day 48

I am sorry for the long break that I took I have been gone on vacation.  We went away for the weekend to a farm show and time away for Valentines Day.  I am home now and it is time to get back to decluttering for the month of February.  I think that this is going to be our last day in the dining room.  I only see one more place that need attention and that is your pie safe/china cabinet.  I have a pie safe that has a glass cabinet on top and two shelves behind doors on the bottom your maybe different but you can do the same thing.  I like to start at the top and work my way down.  I grab my three bags, give away put away and trash.  Take everything out and sort it into these categories once you have them sorted wipe down the shelf if you have anything glass go ahead and wash it before putting it back in then move on to the next section till it is done.  Put the give away bag in the car and then take the trash out.   This is when I like to dust this cabinet so that it looks shining.  Good luck and happy shining.

For more information check out flylady at www.flylady.net