Do you feel overwhelmed that your home is a big mess? Just looking at it, you do not know where to begin?Try this:
Take a big green trash bag and go in each room, Put everything that is laying around into this bag; clothes, toys, shoes, just what ever is on the floor and such. You will have a clean home in 10 minutes. Then while you are sitting down watching a movie, go through this bag and put everything in place. It gives such peace of mind
I do this but I don't always find it good. Sometimes I never seem to go through the bag or box that I collected into, and then I create another, and it doesn't get taken care of either! Hooray for another junk box (oops!)
I do the same thing with a clothes basket, or I use a nice woven basket to place articles in. The garbage bag is rather a bad idea in my house as hubby might think it's garbage and toss it. If I have more than one basket to do I dump it out on my bed and sort through the stuff while the news is on et. This way things are organized and fewer trips are made. Also I have a 3 item rule for each room. Before leaving a room pick up 3 items to be tossed, stored. Nothing like company to make us all go a bit nutty! Why is it the one day the kitchen is upside down, it's the day someone comes unannounced? My biggest pet peeve is folks who don't call before they drop in. I always call to see if it's ok, then I say I'll be over like in an hour, just in case. This way if it's a bad time I come another day.
I use a similar idea. I gather all the clutter together and put it in a tote. I then use the tote as a coffee table by my chair. As I sit and rest, I can open the tote and sort out a few items to be put away and when I get up I take those items and put them where they belong.
If I have time, I put up a card table or kids play table and sort the papers into piles. I paper clip each category and put back into the tote. When I have time, I open the tote and grab a couple of clipped piles and file them.
I do something similar with laundry baskets. While I'm cleaning a room, I toss things that belong in other rooms into the basket. Then distribute them to the other rooms when I can. Makes for fast clean up and fewer trips out of the room your trying to clean.
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