Cleaning & Organizing

We do a lot of important stuff in the bathroom! That’s why it needs to be cleaned every day.

Guest Writer We have laundry to do every day in our house. Our “laundry room” is in the unfinished part of our cellar. It’s not a place I like to hang out. It’s been a while I’ve always washed the exterior of my appliances and have done some wiping of the inside of the washing…

Check out the organizing / cleaning / decluttering challenges. Take a week, take a month, but get started! Some challenges will be simple while other challenges will be more difficult.

If you’re lucky enough to have a laundry room on the main floor of your home, I envy you! In my ranch-style home, the washer and dryer are in the basement on the opposite end of the house from the stairs. Why do I mention that? Our old washing machine used to go “off kilter”…

Guest Writer If you don’t have a steam cleaner yet, you need to get one! I recommend this one, which was recommended to me by my sister. It’s the Shark Professional Steam Pocket Mop Model S3601. I did some research in addition to my sister’s recommendation. Look at these two floor tiles: one was cleaned…

Tile floors: Try a steam cleaner. I saw one used on a 1970s kitchen floor and it was amazing to see the dirt that came out of that floor. And the steam was gentle enough for that old floor! I researched the best floor steamers and spent quite a while on various product review sites….

Grouping Appliances We grouped all appliances together on an unused shelf unit so we could see how many appliances we own. We gathered them from the counter, closet and various cabinets. Then we rated them by how often they were used.

We cleaned out and organized the everyday drinking glasses and travel mugs/water bottles one day, and the stemware and fancy glasses in the glass-front cabinets another day. Just getting around to posting photos of the cleaned up fancy glasses cabinet.

Challenge Week 9: Appliances, big and small An organized kitchen enables easier meal preparation and clean up. We all need that!

This was a good challenge. I got it done in one afternoon. While all the glasses were in the dishwasher (the ones on the top shelf hadn’t been used in a long time and were dusty!), I cleaned the birdhouses and brass pitcher and platter above the cupboards.