welcome to my weekly wrap-up of small projects i accomplished this week – each in 15 minutes or less!
you may notice this is a slightly new feature. when i started the blog last year, my hope was to share one project each day that took me less than 15 minutes to accomplish. it was called “one-a-day”. remember seeing those? well, after a while, i found that i wasn’t able to get in here daily to share them. i had really hoped to have more time and we all know how it is – best laid plans – it just wasn’t working for me. and that’s fine – we all need to fine-tune our goals, right?
so from here on, i’m going to work on several small organization and cleaning tasks each week and then share a weekly wrap up with you on friday.
what kind of projects? they are going to be very small. these are typically org projects or cleaning tasks that i see around the house each and every day – but don’t always have the time to get them done. after a while, those little things add up and really bug me (and my husband). maybe you have the same issue?
in addition to knocking these tasks off my never-ending to-do list, my goal is to hopefully inspire you to do the same!
here’s what happened around our home this week!
1. sorted through our collection of master bed sheeting. since we have a great sized master closet, but don’t have a linen closet, all of our bedding lives in this dresser…
we have collected quite a few sheet sets over the last few years. it was time to sort and purge…
i pulled out 2 sets that we never use (which went into the ebay pile – they are in excellent condition) and the rest were folded and placed back inside the dresser…
i used a method of folding where you put the sheets inside the matching pillow cases. a friend taught me that trick a few years ago. in addition to the purge, folding our bedding this way actually free’d up 1/2 of a drawer!…
2. i sorted through the boys artwork in each of their bedrooms…
it was time to remove Christmas and even some Thanksgiving!…
here was the pile of keeps that remain…
3. i cleaned our daughter’s bedroom chandelier. i really wish i had snapped a few before shots. it was so dusty it looked gray!…
but now – sparkling clean!…
4. i sorted, cleaned and purged our spice and tea cabinets. in our kitchen we have hidden away built-in spice racks…
shamefully, i can’t remember that last time i went through our spices and teas. it was looking pretty bad…
but here is the awesome after…
there were many, many expired spices in our collection. i think we forget that spices have an expiration date too!
and there is 4 small items checked off my to-do list! do you have any small cleaning or organizing tasks to cross of your list? let’s do them together each week and share our results!
hi heidi! thank you for the sweet comments! and thank you SOOO much for linking my selling tips on your FB page. after i post this reply, i am going to check out your FB page. i just started a page over there too! anyway, we have found great success with selling items in order to make a bit more income. it's been totally worth it for us and know it would be helpful to others – esp those who may be hurting during this economy and those with job losses.
i checked out your site today – very cool! thanks so much for stopping by!
Using a dresser in absence of a linen closest is a GREAT solution. 🙂
I also enjoyed your post on tips to sell items and will link it on my organizing FB wall next week.
Cheers & Happy Organizing!
~H
oh, and I'm so completely jealous of that pull-out cabinet for your spices!!
hi heidi! thank you for the sweet comments! and thank you SOOO much for linking my selling tips on your FB page. after i post this reply, i am going to check out your FB page. i just started a page over there too! anyway, we have found great success with selling items in order to make a bit more income. it's been totally worth it for us and know it would be helpful to others – esp those who may be hurting during this economy and those with job losses.
i checked out your site today – very cool! thanks so much for stopping by!
wow – you are SO organized!
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Hi Thu,
Thank you for stopping by!! I hope you'll stick around!
Sam