spend at least 10 minutes every day cleaning, organizing or decluttering

Is to take all non-summer clothes out of my closet and put them in the suitcases under the bed for storage.

I’ve been meaning to do this since April, but just haven’t had the time to do a closet overhaul until now.

Massive organizing task #2 is far more time consuming and hideous, so I will wait on that until I get this one done.

but I hate vacuuming.

I took the garbage out and did the dishes, it’s a start. I’ll work my way up to vacuuming.

EDIT: I vacuumed, and it took a few hours because I vacuumed very thoroughly (under furniture, got all the edges next tot he wall, etc) and dusted at the same time as I vacuumed, but Oh My!

What a lovely fresh and clean apartment I have now :-)

... can’t I?

Oooh, let’s experiment.

Ready? Go!!!

_{Yay! I dusted and organized the bookshelf – and got out the Xmas decorations finally.}

Haven’t seen any hint of a cockroach/big bug for 3 weeks. (Something had flown in one evening when the door was open, but turned out to be a big moth.)

:-) What a relief!

I think we have a cockroach. Yuck yuck yuck yuck.

I hope I’m wrong. My boyfriend is going to kill me (never mind that it’s him who leaves the balcony door open all summer). Anyway, I won’t say anything until I see it for sure.

I got home from classes yesterday and my boyfriend had spent most of the day cleaning and organizing stuff. That was a nice enough surprise, but then this morning I noticed that he had very quietly taken one of those drawers I bought (mentioned in previous post) and filled it up again with all the stuff he had dumped out of it – and more!

Now the shelf is all tidy and dust-free. Yippee.

Double happiness! Clean apartment and I get to be right – again :-)

Set up new files for various things, updated, threw out old docs I won’t need any more.

My boyfriend hates the new drawers I bought last week and removed everything I had put in them. Grrr.

I bought some storage drawers to organize the messy shelves above the desk. But I haven’t put anything in them yet, and they are still sitting on the chair that I first put them on when I came in the door.

Considering that they cost a fair bit, and were bulky and inconvenient to bring home, I’m thinking it’s time I put them to use.

Today’s project is to get those drawers onto the shelves and full of “random shelf stuff”.

of winter clothes in the storage locker today. Time to bring out the summer clothes!

I think I need to focus on eliminating allergens next. I’ve been sneezing a lot lately.

to put on a storage locker in the basement. Now I need to decide which things to put in there… first thing(s) to go will be my boyfriend’s old 90s-era clothes, which he thankfully doesn’t wear anymore, but refuses to actually get rid of._{Whew! I successfully “confiscated” 13 hideous shirts and 2 awful jackets :-)}

I’ll see if he even notices they’re gone afterwards.

Edit: Unfortunately, the storage locker is much smaller than I remembered. Definitely no room for a surfboard or floor fan, not even sure if the suitcases will fit!