Archive for the 'Home Maintenance' Category

Declutter Basement Goal

I didn’t have the best week last week with ‘Flying’. I became consumed with reading my books that I got for my birthday (diet and cookbooks). I wasn’t feeling my best either - very tired. Anyway, husband and daughter were off yesterday for MLK so today actually feels like a Monday.
I have done well with [...]

Day 6 of Flying

Yesterday didn’t go all that well. I did manage to shine my sink but I didn’t do much else. I was just in a funky fog yesterday and I’m not sure why. I didn’t do my assigned 15 minutes of holiday cleanup but I will get back on that today. I goofed off with Twitter [...]

Day 4 Flying

Well I’ve done well with keeping my sink shining and doing the dishes every nite. I signed up for FlyLady newsletter which I read first thing this morning. Todays ‘Flight Plan’ is to spend 15 minutes putting Christmas decorations away. That sounds good to me. I’ll do that after work.
Today’s babystep is stupid. Put post-it [...]

January Habit: Shine your sink

So I just signed up for FlyLady’s newsletter on bigtent and there is some interesting info. The goal of January is to clean up the dishes after dinner EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. for the month of January. This allows for a clean sink when you wake up.
I should add in there .. empty the dishwasher first [...]

Day 3 Flying

Well yesterday’s assignment is one that I have never followed using the FlyLady system — get dressed first thing in the morning down to your shoes. I work from home and workout in the morning so that is the extent of my getting dressed for the day. Shower at 2p.
Today’s assignment:
Get dressed up to shoes [...]

Simplicity and Organization Day 1

Wow it’s been forever since I’ve posted on this blog. In my attempt to get organized I plan on documenting my transition (New Years Resolution of course) from CHAOS to organization. My house is a mess. Thank God for FlyLady! I’ve tried this system throughout the years but I’ve lost my way so I am [...]

Home Improvement & Pesky Tenants

My husband got a call from the husband tenant of our rental property. This guy drives me insane! Just last month the wife emailed me saying they were divorcing and had us sign all these papers getting him off the lease but now he’s calling so I guess they aren’t getting divorced. The flakey-ness is [...]

Diva Fabrics

In my search for fabric for new curtains for my house I came across a very clever site that sells fabric but it gets even better. They have something called a Vote Up Count Down Sale. This is a very clever idea - you vote on your favorite fabric and the fabric with the most [...]

Zone of The Week: Kitchen

Ugh I don’t like this zone! Our new house has a sucky kitchen that I won’t be able to remodel for quite sometime! Our old house had a our newly remodeled kitchen that I sure am missing. I find that when I clean our new kitchen I just get depressed. I have like 2" of [...]

Zone of the Week: Living Room

Well since we have finally moved and are somewhat settled in I thought now is a good time to really commit to a cleaning schedule. We were in escrow for over 2 months when buying this house so I sort of let my old house get pretty dirty. I just wasn’t motivated to keep up [...]