get organized day | pad patter 4.26.22

And that's all I have to say about that.
Summer break in 41 days..........

 

I redid our art room. Still working on parts of it. Might scrap some photos of it soon.

 

I did our pantry & fridge with clear bins & lazy susans not too long ago! I only really got one pic but the left side of the pantry is all organized too. LOVE it still!

 

I got a spice rack for the back of the pantry door, it is now so easy to access them. I have overflow food in the garage on shelves with short big bins that are easy to pull out when I want to access them. I have them in categories - beans, baking supplies, flours, etc. I've never been so organized with food before.

 

I watched Cas from a clutterbug comes clean and discovered my clutterbug style - which is a ladybug. The kind that likes clutter hidden, so needs opaque storage and nothing out until it gets used again the next time. (Butterflies like hubby and DD). Explained a whole bunch of my frustrations through the years.

I decluttered first with the Minimal Mom and A slob comes clean.

I love sorting, purging and organising and even started the whole Swedish death cleaning thing a few years early.
it's amazing how much of the kids stuff I was hoarding/storing for them. Stuff they weren't at all sentimental about. Now I have stuff actually fitting into cupboards and put things away into the place I would look for them first. Sounds simple, but was a life changer.

 

OH, I love Clutterbug's Youtube channel. She's so inspiring! I'm a messy person, but she makes me think it is possible to have an organized home free from clutter.

Taking baby steps here, conquering drawer after drawer. And by doing so, hubby (who is a neat freak, really, but just given up to his wife's chaotic personality), begins to join in. We're actually have fun together.

 

I did a lot of organizing when I did the big purge 4 years ago. So right now, my house is mostly good. I probably could do some more purging of older craft supplies but they are organized so no hurry in my mind.

I also got into the mindset about 15 years ago to never let things pile up on the counters or tables. Bills have a place to be held until paid then they are filed. Junk mail never even makes it into the house. Just the process of not letting things pile up has helped a lot. Someone could walk into my house unexpectedly and not see a mess. Just Saturday I had out-of-town company stop by and had no reason to be embarrassed about how my house looked.

 

I am at heart organized. I have a few spots that I would need to re-organize... but it won't happen. Well, maybe... I really need to do my hall linen closet. It's got so much I can toss or donate!

I have a great junk drawer that really needs to be tidied... I can't find the junk I need when I need it!

I tend to do the 10-15 min clean up a day if I can.... just walk into rooms and clean up/put away stuff. Everything mostly has a home... so it's just a tidy up really.

 

My house is pretty cluttered, but 99% of the time I know exactly where to find something. The 1% that I can't is invariably something I put in a "safe place." I'm pretty good about not bringing new stuff into the house.

 

I love those pull out shelf thingies Kayla! Where did you find those? There are a couple cabinets in my kitchen that could REALLY benefit from something like that!

 

does an organised mess where I know roughly what's in each zone count?