A Company Ready House

I have been thinking. I know, I know...

A friend called the other day and asked if they could come by, the were bringing me somethng. I said sure and then I went around the house cleaning a little here and a little there. The next day, I was thinking, "Why do we (and I say "we" because I know I am not the only one) do that?

I know we want the house to look good but why doesn't it alway look presentable? Shouldn't it look good for the members of the house hold. I didn't want them to see my mess but it is ok for my family to look at it day after day?

I am going to do better!! I want a company ready house at all times. Now, don't come now because I have to get started first. LOL.. Ok, up to do dishes, laundry and clean the bathroom.

Last Spring Cleaning Check in

Today is the last day for Chrissy's Spring Cleaning Challenge at Meaningful Days.

I did not get finished with my cleaning but have enjoyed this challenge. I got more done than I would have if I hadn't taken her up on the challenge. She is a great encourager!

I would like to have finished cleaning our bedroom. It wouldn't take a lot to get it finished.
There is also another room that didn't get touched. It is a storage room right now. No organization at all.
Now I am off to get some other stuff done. Got to make some bread so we will have something for breakfast tomorrow and then make some cornbread to go with our beans that I need to get cooking. opps. Almost forgot about them. hahaha. Later.

Spring Cleaning Check In

Hello everyone!!

Chrissy at Meaningful Days is hosting this Spring Cleaning until next week. She is giving away a really nice prize in a drawing for those who participate. Go check out her site and get started right away for a chance to win.

Last week I was discouraged about not having done much cleaning. Well, Thursday and Friday I did clean. I got my sons room done on Thursday. I forgot to take pictures of the before and after. It was a mess. Toys everywhere. They are still put up now and it is nice to walk into a clean room. We are planning to paint his room hopefully in the very near future. We were going to get a thing that shoots stuff on the walls for texture and then paint this week but we didn't get it done. Maybe next week.

Friday we changed our bedroom around and cleaned the floor real good. There is still lots of cleaning to do in there but it sure looks and feels a lot nicer. Also, we changed what side of the bed we sleep on and I am sleeping better. It is nice to have a change everynow and then. I did get some pictures so here they are.

The first three are before. The others are after.

I know it is still a mess but we got to clean under the bed and under some other stuff. We have decided not to sell the desk. It will go in my sons room after we paint and I am going to put school stuff on it. I don't know how this will work. He is good about leaving stuff alone but when cousins or friends come over I will have to keep an eye on it.

Then yesterday I cleaned the front porch. Here are pictures of that.

It's a little hard to see what I did because of the shadows but it does look a lot better.

So, that is what I have done. It feels sooooo good to have accomplished it.

Now, Chrissy has challenged us to clean one small area of the home daily between now and next week. Something like cleaning a drawer, organizing a cabinet etc. I will have to make a list so I can stay on track. I will post that later.

Spring Cleaning Check In

Chrissy at Meaningful Days is working so hard to encourage me to spring clean. She set a challenge to get it all done by the end of April. I haven't been doing very good.

I know, shame on me. I have been sooo busy.

We waited till the last minute to get our taxes finished. I am glad it is over.

I also helped my mom and dad get theirs done.

I have also been trying to get all my planting finished. I think I have almost finished. I have one more kind of seed to plant. It is suppose to rain here tomorrow so I'm trying to get it all done by then.

I know these are all excuses but I haven't even had much computer time so I KNOW I have been busy. LOL.

I will get back to it soon. I don't have anything scheduled for tomorrow and Friday so I hope to get Little Mans (who isn't all that little anymore) room clean.

Spring Cleaning Check in

I got my desk cleaned off last week. That was my main goal. It was a MESS!! We had taken our computer off the desk last year and then I just started piling papers and other stuff on it. Now I just need to sell the desk. After it is gone we will put a love seat in its place. It is in our bedroom.

I have been working on sorting some of my horse models getting them ready to sell on ebay. They are the small Stablemates from Breyer. I started collecting in 1995 or so and collected for a couple of years. I had taken a video of all them so I could tell which is which. I am looking thru the video and labeling them.

I also hope to get my sons room cleaned this week.

Don't forget to go see Chrissy at Meaningful Days and see what she is doing in her spring cleaning and what others are doing.

Spring Cleaning Check in

I just almost for got to check in for the Spring Cleaning Challenge at Meaningful Days.

So far I have cleaned on Monday. I posted about that Monday.
Yesterday was too busy and today was too. I feel like I messed with goats all day.
Hopefully Tomorrow and Friday will be better.

When I get a chance, I will take some pictures and post them.

Now, it is time for bed.

Monday- Spring Cleaning

I started my Spring Cleaning for the week. I made a list this morning and have marked off a few things. I sure feels good. I have enjoyed walking down my hall to the bathroom, they are clean!! It really feels good to not see dust bunnies lining the walls in the hall and it is nice to be able to see clearly in the bathroom mirrors. I thought for a second on taking a picture of my BIG dust bunnies but decided not to gross anyone out. hahaha

I also dusted the furniture in the living room again. It don't stay clean... :) It does need re dusting every now and then.

I re cleaned the school desk but we haven't done any school. I was planning on just doing memory verse, math and reading but haven't made it yet. ???

So, now all I have left on my cleaning list is to clean the front porch. It is always so cluttered.

Are you wondering about the kitchen? I was having a mental block there so I decided if I was going to get anything else done, I would have to return to the kitchen at a later day. For some reason I just couldn't make myself get it finished. I am feeling good about cleaning again. When you feel you can't go on in a paticular place, move on, it will still be there when you are ready to clean it. haha.

Wednesday Spring Cleaning Check In

Chrissy at Meaningful Day is host a spring cleaning challenge which I am slowly but surely working along with.

I am having a hard time keeping going. It is that "I really don't want to do this" attitude.
Today I have been cleaning the fridge while baking some Oatmeal Raisin cookies.

Tips for cleaning:

• Just Do it.
• Make a list of what you need to accomplish for that day. Check them off as you get it done. This way you can see your progress and it encourages you.

Now I need to go finish the fridge, and work on the Lazy Susan and I think I still have one more drawer to clean, no make that two.

Go visit at Meaningful Days and join in on the fun. haha

Spring Cleaning Kitchen

For this week, I am still working on the kitchen. I got a lot done on Saturday and yesterday.

I got most of the glass cabinet cleaned. I still need to do the bottom shelf.

I cleaned and reorganized the pantry.

I cleaned the outside of the fridge, counting the top.
Still need to clean inside it.

I cleaned the tops of all the cabinets counting inside and the doors.

I have some of the drawers cleaned. I tackled the "stash all" drawer yesterday and it looks much better, more room for more stuff. LOL.

I still need to do the rest of the bottom cabinets. I think I cleaned one of them and that's all.

I also need to do under sink. I really dread this because it is a mess. I will get it done this week though. My husband needs it cleaned out anyway so he can fix my sprayer.

I need to clean the stove/oven too. I don't like doing the oven part. It is just hard since I don't like to use chemicals. I haven't found anything that really works well and fast. Too much scrubbing. I really should get a liner for the bottom and then it would be much easier.

So left to do this week:

Clean:
bottom cabinets
under sink
fridge
stove/oven
bottom shelf of glass cabinet
rest of the drawers (9 more)

I think that's all. I will move on to another room IF I get the kitchen done this week.

Wednesday Spring Cleaning

I have not done much on my cleaning this week. It has been busy with goats being born. We are milking and then there are babies to feed. I think today may be an off day for new babies but I have to take my little dog to the vet right after lunch.
I am going to try to get something done today. I have a hard time getting started if I don't start in the morning.
I am starting to work in my kitchen. Here was/is my list for the week.
Monday:
Clean Pass thru between kitchen and living room Done
Clean glass cabinet.
Tuesday:
Clean out pantry, reorganize it
Fridge, inside and out
Wednesday:
Clean stuff on top of cabinets
Dust tops of top cabinets
Dust/wash out top cabinets
Clean out drawers
Wash outside of top cabinets and Pantry
Thrusday:
Clean bottom cabinets where the coffee pot is and by fridge
Clean Lazy Susan
Friday:
Top Cabinet over sink area inside and out
Bottom Cabinets by door inside and out
Drawers by sink inside and out
Saturday:
Clean under Kitchen sink ugggg
Sweep and mop

That should get the kitchen except for the stove. That will come later or I will work it in on a day this week.

Ok, I am off the clean. Just making this list gets me motivated.

Spring Cleaning on Saturday

It sure can be frustrating to clean and then look and it is already a mess again in just a few days. I can't stop thinking as I clean how the Jewish clean. It makes me even more frustrated because I wonder how in the world can I keep my house clean, how can they? Is it realistic? Am I making more of it than really is? UGG. There are only three of us in this house and you would think there were 50. haha.
Ok, it may not be that bad but sometimes it feels like it.

Well, I have been working on yesterdays chores. I have swept and mopped the Dining Room and am working on the Kitchen. I hope to also get the rug swept before bed time.
I am going to plan my next weeks cleaning so I will be posting that later on, maybe on Monday.

Friday-Spring Cleaning

Today I got my yesterdays cleaning done. I didn't get my stuff done I had planned to do today. Maybe tomorrow.
So:
Today I dusted the bookshelf and rearranged some stuff on it. This bookshelf hold lots of books and some homeschool stuff.
I cleaned the bill table as best I could. My husband uses this place most and I didn't want to mix anything up. I also dusted the other piece of furniture in the dining room area.
I was reading at Domestic Felicity about Spring Cleaning, Jewish style and I can't imagine having to clean my house that way. I know it would be best for health reasons etc but it would take me all year and then I would have to start over. I am too much of a "keep everything" type of person, I have too much stuff. I admire Mrs. Anna T for being able to do it along with having a new born.

The day has come to an end. I guess I best be gettin' out of here.
Talk to you later.

Thurdays Spring Cleaning

Today I didn't do what I had on my list. I guess I got busy doing other stuff and looking stuff up on the computer. Tomorrow I will have to do two days worth to catch up.

They only thing I did out of the three things on my list was clean the school desk. It was so cluttered there was bearly enough room for Little Man to do his work.

We combined some of the crayons into one box and other stuff into the new empty boxes. I put some books and loose papers away.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. I hope to get started early, before everyone else gets up.

The picture is of our entertainment center that I kind of redecorated. I was going to show a picture of a wood carving my husband did but it was blurry. I will try later. It is in the picture but of course you can't see what it is.
While I was cleaning in the cabinets of the entertainment center, I thought it would be neat to show off some of my stuff. I may do a post on "what's in there". Or I may just do a show and tell on each one over a period of time. Who knows. LOL.
Ok, I am getting a little off subject. See ya tomorrow.

I don't do windows

Hahaha!! Naw, I really do.





I got all my windows done in the front half of the house. 6 in all, inside and out. It is so nice to be able to look thru them now.





We had a windy rain storm a few weeks back and it blew dirt and dust all over the windows and they had been hard to see thru since then. Now the sun can shine in and I can see out.





Now, for some window cleaning tips. What do I use to clean my windows? Glad you ask.



Club soda and wash clothes.

I just put a sprayer into a litter bottle of club soda and whala..
My wash clothes are mostly older ones and some microfiber towels.

I use several clothes. One for cleaning around the edges of the frame and for the first cleaning of the window. Then a clean one for the second pass. There is usally a lot of lint with wash clothes but after the window is clean and the streaks are to a minimum, I will refold my cleanest cloth and wipe off the lint. I have been cleaning glass and mirrors like this for a LONG time. LOL.

Yesterday I got my spring cleaning chores all done. I think when I wrote I only needed to clean around the wood stove. I just swept that since I had deep cleaned around it not too long ago.

Now, how do you clean your windows? Do you have any tips to pass along? Please share.

Spring Cleaning

I am taking part in a challenge that Chrissy at MEANINGFUL DAYS started. Go read about it and then get to cleaning.

Ok, I am going to post my cleaning schedule for this week.

MONDAY: Sweep the ceiling and walls in the Dining room, living room and kitchen. Clean around wood stove.

TUESDAY: I have to clean a house this day so will not do a lot. I plan to clean windows in living room and dining room (4 windows).

WEDNESDAY: Sweep behind couches, chair and table in Living room. Dust furniture in L.R.

THURSDAY: Dust couches and chair in L.R. Clean school desk, dust book shelf and the bill table (where we keep our bills and stuff).

FRIDAY: Straighten bottom section of entertainment center. Sweep, mop, vacuum.

SATURDAY: What ever needs doing if we are home

SUNDAY: More than likely NOTHING.