our room

I think my timer method of working on this every night for a certain period of time is working pretty well. I still have lots of work ahead of me, but it’s starting to look better already. I’d love to have this complete before Christmas break. Of course, there is ALWAYS room for improvement, but I just want it to be a certain level of clean and organized and then I’ll consider it done.

I made a decision to work at this 17 minutes (a number I often use for things), per day until it’s complete!

Today I sorted clothes out of laundry baskets into: needs to be hung up, ‘play clothes’ comfy stuff I wear only at home, jammies, and socks. Now tomorrow, it’ll be pretty quick to make major progress- I’ll start by hanging all the stuff in the needs to be hung up pile.

I cleaned the curtain, removing all visible cat hair, and I got rid of some paper clutter from my dresser, and found 3 gift cards I had forgotten about! I can’t wait to go to Sears and get some much needed wardrobe staples!! (Shoes and a jacket, in particular).

I really need to focus on this one because our room should be our relaxing haven, not a messy place full of laundry baskets, and clutter.

My husband and I worked at this last night. Not as much as I’d hoped, but got a fair amount done. He did some much-needed organizing, and found some things we totally forgot about. One was a Sears card of mine for $50!!! I really need it right now, but I’m contemplating using it toward Christmas knowing that I have $50 (actually more, because I’ve used well over $100 in Sears cards on my son/husband instead of myself!) once things calm down.

Will keep plugging away at this. I would’ve gotten much more done, but by the time my husband picked me up, and then we picked up our son, and got home—it was about 5:45. I get out a 4:30 and I was very motivated, but time and energy start dwindling when I get picked up almost 1/2 hour late. Oh well. I’ll be happy with what we DID accomplish.

I did lots of folding and hanging laundry last night, so that does help, but there’s plenty of work still to be done.

Toying with the idea of rearranging the room, too…

This is probably the next goal to complete, so here’s the deal-

I washed a comforter and flannel sheets and hubby changed the sheets and flipped the mattress (not in that order :) last night.

I need to hang up a lot of clothes, sweep the floor (and get rid of the dust buffalos!)and then get rid of some clutter, etc.

Will work on this tonight.

I worked in there for at least another 15 minutes yesterday.

Put some jewelry in my armoire. Hung up some stuff.

Will work more today.

I worked in there for 20 minutes last night. Progress was made, but still much to do.

I’ll keep at it, though.

Not remotely done with this goal, but I DID remake the bed, and after I stripped the bed, I opened the bedroom window for some fresh air, and sprayed Febreze on the mattress, turned on the ceiling fan, and put on clean sheets and pillow cases, and fresh blankets. Ah… I love a freshly made bed, and it’ll make me want to keep working toward a tidy room.

I did a bit of work unexpectedly last night on this goal, and finally removed a big box from my dresser, taking out several items that are mine and moving it to hubby’s side of the room because the rest of it is his stuff.

I hope to work on this goal more this weekend. It’d be nice to have a clean and organized room to retreat to.