This & That...My Silly Life

So every weekend I have a cleaning routine.  Sometimes I don't have to do as much because I will start on Friday night...it just depends.  I am funny about the cleanliness of my house.  My husband is also funny about it.  Sometimes during the week there will be a few crumbs on the kitchen floor and he will say "I need to sweep this floor".  That actually translates into me needed to sweep the floor (LOL).

My usual cleaning involves the following...

• cleaning the sinks, toilets, mirrors, light fixtures and towel racks ect... in the bathrooms
• dusting everything in the house and I mean EVERYTHING!!!
• Vacuuming the couches, and all the rooms with carpet
• cleaning the kitchen (wiping everything down including the outlets, counter tops, stove, dishwasher, small appliances)
• cleaning out bedroom furniture with a wet cloth (furniture polish builds up, in case you don't know)
• then I sweep and mop every room with tile floors (besides the laundry room which I do every other week)
• then there is laundry which I hate with a passion!!!

Some people reading this are probably think that this sounds pretty easy.  Well I wouldn't say it's hard, but it is time consuming, aggravating and who wants to spend their weekend cleaning?  On the flip side, 85% of the time my house is clean and in order.  Over the years I have been in several peoples homes and I can say that I feel like my house is super clean :)  To each his own...some people don't like to spend their time cleaning.  I don't like it, but having a clean home is important to me!

Now back to the reason for this post...  Saturday I came home and was fixing to start my weekly cleaning, but instead I decided to go work on my stock room.  I had cleaned my stock room not too long ago read here this will show you what it looked like before I started working on it.  However, like every time you start one thing it turns into several other things.  Since I had decided to take back my spare bedroom (for the most part) it meant I had to do a lot of moving.  The closest was slam packed full of stuff so that was not an option.  I decided to go clean out each cabinet under the sinks in our bathroom, in the kitchen and in the laundry room.  This would allow me to move stuff out of the closet and then I could put the stuff sitting around the room in the closest.  After all this I would have my room BACK :)  It was a lot of work!  All kinds of junk had accumulated in all of these cabinets.  Now everything is just peachy :)  It did take all day, I walked back and forth lugging washing powder, cleaning supplies and other stuff until I broke a sweat!!!  It was all worth it.  My friend Katie was over last night so I showed her my new and improved stock room.  The first question she asked me was "where did you put all the stuff?"  After that I knew I had done a great job!

This is what my room looks like now!
The laundry room cabinet
another cabinet
under the kitchen sink
full of shampoo and condition in a bathroom cabinet
under Mark's sink
under our guest bathroom sink

So a big project. I don't know why I decide to start these things...they always seem so simple until you start them and you have a mess all over the whole house. Not to worry, my house is in order :) With all this organizing and moving I have been doing over the last few months the house is really in tip top shape! Out with the junk and there is room and space everywhere!