One More Day.....One More Baby Step

Well I took a little detour from our master bathroom, to the refrigerator/freezer. I opened it this morning & noticed there was food in there from New Years....YIKES!!! The pictures don't show it very well but I literally threw away 2 garbage bags of old junky food. It feels great to have a SHINY sink & a CLEAN refrigerator.

BEFORE

BEFORE: REFRIGERATOR

AFTER: REFRIGERATOR

BEFORE: FREEZER

AFTER: FREEZER

You can't exactly tell the difference but I definitely can! It's just one more baby step to having a clutter & clean home!!

Thanks FLYlady!

FlyBaby Maggie

Baby Steps.....The Hall Closet

Well here are my before & after pictures of my hall closet which consisted of towels, wash cloths, hand towels, sheets, blankets, perfumes, lotions, & tons of OTHER JUNK!

The whole cupboard!

Before:

After:The Top Half Of The Cupboard

Before:

After:

The Bottom Half Of The Cupboard
Before: After:

I'm sure it doesn't look like I did much but I literally threw away TONS of OLD lotions & perfumes I honestly think I've had since high school or some that had barely a drop left in them. I also threw away tons of old sheets that don't even fit the bed I have now & I have no idea why I still had them. With the towels, wash cloths, and hand towels I only got rid of 2 hand towels. I just re-folded them to be even and lay right on top of the next towel, that made a huge difference in my closet. It took me roughly an hour.

My next project is going to be my bedroom bathroom. It's just a half bath but it's terrible inside, because I am the only one to get ready in there and you girls definitely know how messy we can be. Makeup, hairspray, hair products, etc., I probably won't be able to do it for a few days since tomorrow is Monday and I will be back at the grind but hey doing 2 big things over the weekend definitely made me feel great!

AND, I have had my tennis shoes on all day & my sink is still shiny & clean!!

Have a great week!

2010: A New Year A New Brewer Way

So for 2010 my goal is to be settled & clutter free by Christmas 2010.

The settled part is on the D.L. (Down Low) until it is offical but I will keep everybody updated.

The clutter part started with my asking my facebook friends for advice. One gal told me to look up flylady.com. I do have to admit the website is kind of a TON to absorb in 2 hours (literally that's how long I've been reading the website), but I have a few pages that have become my favorites. I only have a few because I haven't gotten that far yet. (the space in between FLYingLessons & Routines etc., is an underscore so it should look like this FLYingLessons_Routines, FLYingLessons_Declutter, FLYingLessons_ControlJournal10, I'm not quite sure why it did that)

My Routine!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_Routines.asp

How to Declutter!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp

Master Grocery List!

http://flylady.com/pages/FLYingLessons_ControlJournal10.asp

So basically I started my day with putting my tennis shoes on and deep cleaning my sink. Like the FlyLady says, if you put your tennis shoes on everyday you have no excuse to not take out garbage or anything else outdoors, and if you keep up with your deep cleaned sink you just have to keep it cleaned up.

The process for deep cleaning my sink went as followed:

-Fill ONE side of the sink with hot water, to the top of the sink & add ONE cup of bleach.

-Let sit for ONE hour

-Rinse WELL

-Poor Bar Keepers Friendly (for stainless steel, or any other scrubbing such as comet) on the sink & down in the drain

-Scrub with SOS pad or scrubber

-Rinse WELL

-Spray Windex all over sink & wipe with rag/paper towel

-For a much more shine, poor a tiny amount of Olive Oil or Lemon Oil on a rag & wipe all over the sink. I used Olive Oil.

Here are some photos of my deep cleaned sink. I didn't take any pictures before (which I regret now) but I also am putting pictures of the rags. They were disgustingly black and I thought my sink was pretty clean, although being stainless steel it hides a lot of flaws.

My 3 rags after it was all said & done

The Windex Rag - normally a white rag w/ red linesThe Drying Rag
The Olive Oil Rag

From now on I will do a before & after picture. My next project is my hall closet with all of my stupid toiletries & towels & sheets etc., This one is going to be a tough project, but baby steps will get me through it!

Happy New Year Everybody!!

Maggie