declutter 15 minutes a day

Washed dishes
put away clothes
set apart some clothes for Goodwill
tackle messy corner!!

I think I’ll do another 15 min now. :)

well… my last quarter of the first year of grad school is almost over and the last thing I have time for is decluttering.
YET…it’s only for 15 min so I have set up alarms one in the morning and one in the evening to remind me to declutter ONCE every day.
It’s not happening every day…but it’s happening more often now. Today, I cleaned up the kitchen, washed dishes and set up lunch for tomorrow. Pretty basic, but with finals coming up even the basic stuff was not getting done.

We kept up pretty well with what we’d done last weekend. Dishes are not piling up so much anymore and I love that!!
After trying out the new way we arranged our furniture we are not sure we’ll keep it…it looks a bit weird. Anyway, we’ll see.
Today I cleaned the bathroom, washed all the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen (still have the stove to do). Our kitchen is so unbelievable tiny that I had to devise ways of making use of other spaces to hold our dishes and appliances. So far I just had the appliances still in the boxes they were given to us for our wedding over a year ago! But today we got a metal baker’s rack in the hallway (which is unbelievable wide!!??). The door of the kitchen opens to the hallway so it’s very accessible for the cook (me) I started to organize the appliances there and switch a few things from the pantry shelves (it was too full) to the rack. I’m so glad about that! Now I have my beloved food processor very close at hand…I’d like to have it on the counter next to the sink but there wouldn’t be any room for much else. I’m happy! DH helped me with that project. We’ll keep working on the apartment tomorrow. I’m off to bed now.

So I already have my Flylady goal in place but I’ve let her fly away for awhile. I am starting again…this last weekend we moved some furniture around to keep our bookcase more accessible. That was the original plan, yet once we got started…WELL, a lot of cleaning and organizing ensued. I’m not nearly done with the living room but I like what I’m seeing.
Last year for a little while we used to do the 15 min decluttering everyday when we got home. Gotta start that again THIS WEEK.
We want our hard work from the weekend to stick.
Having said that, I’m off this chair to declutter for 15 NOW!