Home for the Holidays - Clutter Busting and Cleaning Support Thread

[wimama]

I was wondering if anyone is up for an accountability thread. No special group projects or assignments. My intent for this thread is for it to be a thread where everyone can post their goals for the week and then we can all support each other in trying to accomplish our weekly goals. We can work together so we all can have a clean home and be ready to enjoy the holidays. Possibly if people are interested we could make it a weekly thread.


Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve are at our house, so we need to get ready for guests. Here are my goals:

Finish Reorganizing the Study
Pay Bills & Balance Checking
Go through old Papers
Filing Papers
Shopping List for Thanksgiving
Scrub down downstairs bathroom floor/shower
Vacuum Downstairs Couch
Wash Guest Bed sheets and Sofa Sleeper bed sheets
Clear out Dining Room

[jgenie]

I'll play! Is that your list for the week?

Mine is:
- Call handyman to schedule repairs
- File papers from hall closet
- File receipts from hall closet
- gather returns and make list
- clean my closet
- make list of shoes for DS2
- clean piles from dressers

[MoJo]

I'm not up for a weekly list today. . . but my goals for today are washing the bedding for the guest room and cleaning my oven. (I did self-cleaning mode yesterday, so I just need to clean out the ash today.)

[WatchingThemGrow]

I'm not officially hosting anything, but I figure family may come over if we do a leftover party on T'giving. (We go out to eat at a fancy hotel since the past couple years we've had babies and MIL does not want to cook.)

-recaulk the showers
-clean the toys taken out of rotation from the flea bombing and put them back in rotation.
-find homes for the items in TCS boxes next to my bed
-finish dealing with the clothes that got flea bombed
-find homes for DS1's new space and fire sets

[AbbysMom]

I've been on a cleaning spree lately but I have so much more to do!
I deap-cleaned the bathrooms but still need to do the floor and shower. I HATE doing them.
I need to tackle the clutter in the kitchen and find places for things that have been hanging around.
Need to put away the Barbie house and accessories that gets no play in the living room.
Need to clean the living room - dust and vacuum.
I'm trying to de-clutter my bedroom too. I know it shouldn't be a priority now but it's bugging me.

[brittone2]

I'll join

We aren't hosting THanksgiving this year, but we are prepping for another move, I have DD's birthday coming up, Christmas, and prepping house for our realtor to show for new tenants (we've been in a temporary rental house for a few months...).

I've been doing Motivated Moms which has been helpful. DH even likes it.

That doesn't get into a TON of cleaning/decluttering, but I've been working on extra decluttering projects and trying to pack some boxes here and there.

[wimama]

I totally blew it last night. I sat down to work on bills with my laptop on my lap and fell asleep in about 15 minutes. Last night was my late night at work, so by the time I ate dinner and put DS to bed I was pretty spent. I must try not to sit in that energy zapping recliner. It sucks all the energy right out of me.

Getting our home decluttered and organized has been an ongoing project for the last year. A year ago we sold our house and moved in with my MIL, who is in her 80s. DH family didn't want her living alone, after my FIL pass away. So, our ongoing project has been to declutter and organize both 45 year of my MIL's stuff, all our stuff and kid clutter. And, we have been renovating the basement living areas. We are part of the way done with that. Fun times!

My goal is to have all the living areas in the basement finished enough for all the kids to enjoy on these upcoming holidays.

I'm not up for a weekly list today. . . but my goals for today are washing the bedding for the guest room and cleaning my oven. (I did self-cleaning mode yesterday, so I just need to clean out the ash today.)

Weekly or daily goals are fine. Whatever works for you!

[brittone2]

Today I:
Boxed some extra sets of bed linens and curtains
Am 1/2 way through organizing the two upstairs linen closets
Boxed up chapter books on DS1's shelf
Cleaned sink and counters in kitchen
did wash
Found about 15 things to donate
Emptied trash from all upstairs rooms and downstairs half bath

I need to:
return library books
pay fine on random missing book that I don't recall DC checking out
Clean bathtub (shower is done)
Clean out purse (on my motivated moms chore list for today)
Round up toys in the front yard
Pack up extra towels
vacuum upstairs
Order DD's cake
Clean my closet

[brittone2]

Today I:
Boxed some extra sets of bed linens and curtains
Am 1/2 way through organizing the two upstairs linen closets
Boxed up chapter books on DS1's shelf
Cleaned sink and counters in kitchen
did wash
Found about 15 things to donate
Emptied trash from all upstairs rooms and downstairs half bath

I need to:
return library books
pay fine on random missing book that I don't recall DC checking out
Clean bathtub (shower is done)
Clean out purse (on my motivated moms chore list for today)
Round up toys in the front yard
Pack up extra towels
vacuum upstairs
Order DD's cake
Clean my closet

Tonight I

Finished the linen closets
Cleaned my closet
DH vacuumed upstairs and kitchen
Donated 2 huge garbage bags of stuff (still need to drop off)

[wimama]

Tonight I

Finished the linen closets
Cleaned my closet
DH vacuumed upstairs and kitchen
Donated 2 huge garbage bags of stuff (still need to drop off)

Awesome Job! You got a ton done!

Tonight we went though all our books we had in boxes and organized then and put then put them on bookshelves in the study. And, I have been working on the laundry. I should work on the bills for a while before going to bed.