Category: Cleaning & Organizing

Organize! Declutter! Clean! Follow my 52-week challenge at your own pace and you could be living the sweet life as you should be. Mix up the challenges so that you are always crossing one thing off your list each week or two. 1. Start off today by creating a cleaning schedule. Re-read my post about…

People who declutter, organize and clean their homes say not only do they end up with a cleaner home, but it is less stressful to live in a decluttered, organized, and clean environment which is beneficial both mentally and emotionally.

Organizing Challenge: Washer, Dryer, Laundry Room and make it pretty, too! Having a laundry room located near the bedrooms seems like an ideal location. The fact is, most homes have the laundry room in the basement near plumbing, in a mud room off the kitchen where the appliances are located near the kitchen’s plumbing, or…

Organizing your sunglasses is a small, but important part of the overall organize, declutter, and clean challenge. Every part of your living space should be looked at to see if it needs to be organized, decluttered, and cleaned. Sunglasses can be a big investment. I buy some pretty expensive name brand sunglasses as well as…

My kitchen has a big breakfast bar in it with five stools on one side and four drawers and cabinets on the other side. Two of the four drawers are “junk drawers.” If you don’t know what a junk drawer is, it is a drawer used as a catchall, a space designated to hold all…

After I published the jewelry organizing challenge earlier this week, my mother said she needed help organizing her jewelry. I was glad to help, LOL! She uses multiple jewelry organizing tips already, but it had been awhile since she had gone through her jewelry for: discards/donations; repair; and clean/store correctly.

Organize! Declutter! Clean! Follow this 52-week challenge at your own pace and you could be living the sweet life as you should be. Mix up the challenges so that you are always crossing one thing off your list each week or two.

Is your jewelry all over the place? Gather it all to one spot where you can work to inspect your jewelry for pieces that need repair or that you no longer wear. Don’t pile your jewelry in a heap; that’s a habit you will want to stop. Make separate piles: good to use, discard, repair,…

These are my favorite home organizing hacks and why they matter to me. I use a lot of organizing products and hacks to keep my home decluttered and clean.

My cat comes racing down the hall at full speed and when he reaches this carpet he digs his nails in and the carpet crumples up as he slides with the carpet.