WILLN: Bedroom

I'm totally embarassed about this picture. The worst part is I took this a few days ago and it looks worse! We'll see what I can do today with this mess.

What it looks like now- Charlotte

I was a little reluctant to show you the pictures of my craft room. I didn't want to overwhelm you with my organizational and cleaning skills. It was in such perfect order, after all. But then I thought there might be some part of the room I could organize a teensy bit more, so I might as well try. It took me a while, but I finally found a place in my craft room to clean. Here is the before:
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Are you prepared to be jealous?
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I can't help that it is so spotless.
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It was hard to find anything to do in there.
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I know, I'm just a clean freak, right? Actually this was my weekly challenge. Mostly because I had to beg my friends to not go upstairs when they were over the other day and I knew something had to change. After a couple hours my room looked more like this:



I really do have a system that works to keep things organized and I was surprised how quickly I was able to clean things up. The playroom, on the other hand, I've already spent 2 hours on and still has about that much before it is done. Luckily (for my pride) I forgot to take before pictures.

What's It Look Like Now? Craft Area

This week I chose the craft area. For me it is a table in our guest room. I know it is going to be a different space for everyone. I actually took my before picture, then immediately cleaned it. So, I have a before and an after already. Maybe it can motivate everyone else :-)
BEFORE: You can tell I was really getting a lot of craftin done in my craft area.
AFTER: Yeah! I can actually use my craft table! Yeah.
No one will really appreciate this, since I didn't take a before picture, but I also cleaned out our toy/cereal closet. This is our cereal food storage stash, organized by expiration date. All of the toys were bought at 75% - 90% off and we save them for Christmas and birthdays. The cardboard boxes on the right are all number 10 cans of food storage.

I did not do well last week.  I did most of the daily cleans, but that is about it.  I did get one before/after of a "five minute" clean that was really a 45 minute clean.  I totally meant to take a picture of the bathroom sink, too.  Peter out of town + Joseph's birthday + preschool at my house + busiest Saturday is a long time = my trash kicked:

Dishes: 10
Sweep: 10
Vacuum: 10
Bed: 10
Scriptures: 2
5 minutes: 3
Goals for week: 5
Bathrooms: 5
Mop: 5
Laundry: 0
Weekly Challenge: 0
What it looks like now: 0

Total: 60/120

I'll just look at these a while longer:

Already Done!!

I have been a busy bee today and have already done under my bathroom sink and 3 bathroom drawers.....good luck keeping up with me.

What does under your bathroom sinks look like?

I have three bathroom sinks and I hope to get to all of them, but one will do. I have high hopes for getting my extra bathroom supplies organized under here. Good luck, hope yours looks better than mine!

Bookshelves- Charlotte

So I did really well last week. I went through my books and cleaned off the shelves. Regathering the sets of books together. Now I just need to figure out where the kids have scattered the misssing books from the sets!

I did really well with the rest of the week, too. I made my bed and read scriptures with the kids every day (we are now half way through the B of M chapter wise!). I vacuumed every day but one (which I made up for on Saturday). I did dishes and swept 3 days. This is the best I've done in a LONG time. I made my goals, but didn't get two done (what can I say, the other cleaning exhausted me!). I mopped, did bathrooms, did laundry and finished my 5 minute cleans (those cupboards were NASTY!). I believe that gives me a total of ...

10x3 + 3x2 = 36 (daily)
3 (goals)
3x5 = 15 (weekly)
10 (5 minutes)
20 (weekly)
10+10=20 (what it looks like now)

Total- 104/116

Embarrass Myself into Working

It worked earlier to embarrass myself. So, here is a picture of my "Man Room" that I made my challenge this week.

Kim's Bookshelves - FINISHED!!

I was so blasted embarrassed by my last pictures that I spent naptime today cleaning my bookshelves and the rooms they are in. I'm glad to have them done! Hooray.

Kim's Bookshelves

This is embarrassing. I promise the rest of my house doesn't look this terrible. I was very tempted to clean up some before taking this picture, but I didn't. A few higlights: 2 nasty sippy cups on top, groceries from last Tuesday that have yet to be put away, the ward canner that we used last Monday to put up 40 #10 cans for food storage, and our church diaper bag.

My 5 minute challenges are: *windows *glass surfaces *fireplace mantle *mop bathroom *try new recipe
My 2 daily cleans are: *make bed *clean up clutter spot
My weekly challenge is: The Man Room (otherwise known as food storage pantry and costume room)

New scoring system

If you noticed, I changed some things up here.  I am still working on the design, but I thought we could respark some excitement by changing the scoring up a bit.

One of the things that most people felt held them back was the lack of adaptation in the choosing of challenges.  So I've tried to add adaptation into the scoring.

Instead of other people choosing the challenges, we've made it so you pick your own weekly challenge, your own 5 minute cleans, and 2 of your 5 daily cleans.  See the lovely tabs on the top of the blog for more information.  Please add any 5 minute challenges or daily cleans you can think of to the list.

The weekly challenge will now be worth 20 points, the daily, weekly, and 5 minutes are the same.  Although we've added a new way to get bonus points.  After completing your original 5 5 minute cleans, you can do up to 5 more for 1 point each.

We are also adding a new feature.  Every week, instead if posting a weekly challenge, we will take turns posting an area of the house for "What it looks like right now."  You have to post a picture of what that area looks like without any clean up (10 points) and then another picture at the end of the week with a follow up post (10 more points).

Tips are no longer going to be assigned.  Instead it can be used for 5 bonus points ONCE during the 4 week cycle.  You can post more tips whenever you think of them.

So at the beginning of the week post:

• Your goals for the week (still 3 points for posting and 2 points for completing)
• Your chosen weekly challenge
• Your 5 minute cleans
• Your daily cleans
• A picture for "What it looks like right now"

Then at the end of the week:

• Follow up for "What it looks like"
• Score for the week
• Follow up on goals for the week

Make sense?  If not call me!

Andrea, please smack Brenda for me.

5 minute challenges? More like 35 minute challenges. Although, I must admit, now that I am finished, I'm glad I tackled them. Especially these two. They'd been begging for some TLC.

The Junk Drawer

Since the kitchen table didn't give any spectacular before/after pictures, I thought I'd give you these instead.

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Coats and Jackets (hall closet)