Clean & Organized House Archive

Week 4 Review: Maintenance Mode

My sister and her family have arrived. The house is a complete mess but we’re having a great time. And really, it’s completely expected. We have twice as many people living here at the moment. I’m also really happy with the projects I accomplished this month. I can see how easily it will be to
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Week 3 Review: Crystal Paine’s 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home Challenge

This week my plan was to follow Crystal Paine’s 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home Challenge more closely. I wasn’t able to complete everything but I’m really happy with what I did accomplish given the craziness of this past week. It’s been incredibly busy at work because of a couple of projects that are
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Week 2 Review: A Clean & Organized Desk

This past week I was planning to follow Crystal Paine’s 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home Challenge. Since this was the second week of her challenge I decided to pick and choose tasks from the first two weeks to tackle. These are the tasks I completed this week: Cleaned out the refrigerator Cleaned out the
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Creating a Memory Box

My son has been taking a Korean class since last fall and unfortunately there isn’t a lot of build-in review of the vocabulary. In addition, since the beginning of the year my son has been memorizing one Bible verse every week as part of Picture Book Preschool. We needed a system for regularly reviewing everything
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Week 1 Review: Organizing My Child’s Artwork

For the first week of my 28 days to a clean and organized house experiment I’ve focused on getting a system in place to organize and archive all of the artwork and other papers that my 4-year old creates. I’m really pleased with the process so far. Taking the time to develop a system or
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28 Days to a Clean & Organized House

In January I worked to remove the clutter from our home. In February I worked on setting goals every day. At this point I think I’m ready to tackle cleaning and organizing the house. It’s not that our house is extremely dirty or messy but it is to the point where the small messes and
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