It’s 9:30 in the morning on a Saturday. Grizzly is out hunting down dinner. The monkeys are still tucked snug in their beds. I’m on my third cup of coffee, a load of laundry is drying, I’ve already made a batch of laundry soap, and I have projects on the kitchen table (clearing out space to continue to re-purpose the hall closet project). I look around myself and think, “What a hot mess!”
Because in my projecting and tackling Mt. Washmore this week, things are out of place. Christmas still hasn’t made it to the attic. There is laundry to put up. There are dirty dishes in the sink.
Who lives like that? Ugh!
I go back to work on Monday (didn’t win the Lottery over the break, darn it) and I hate going back to school with a dirty house. The monkeys did a nice job in their bathroom the other day so it’s down to maintenance in there. The spaces bugging me most now are the kitchen and utility room.
My utility room is a small, tight, cramped space. Over Thanksgiving Break, I organized the pantries, which are part of the utility room. All I need to do to them is some re-stocking. There is a cabinet over my functioning dryer that needs organizing, especially since I’ve repurposed a new container for my laundry detergent (yay me!) and the top of the dryer is a wreck. My functioning washing machine is part of a stackable unit (the dryer doesn’t work) and on top of the non-operational dryer, I need to go through the Laundry Fairy’s collection and put things away from up there.
My kitchen is pretty well organized the way that works for me. So it’s just a matter of cleaning at this point. The only organizing I need to do is in the “junk” drawers, which I’ll tackle one drawer at a time.
It sounds like a lot, but I bet I can get everything done in just a few hours. And then I can go back to my projects.
What will you tackle today?
~ Katie
*Side Note*
Yesterday, someone accused me of hoarding (the same person who taught me Cool-Whip bowls make good cereal bowls.) I do NOT hoard. I REPURPOSE. My projects today have been a cute pencil holder from a Ball Jar Craft Kit using an old can and I repurposed a snack mix container to hold my laundry soap. They’ve turned out really cute and USEFUL. I’ll post pics later.
I’m sticking my tongue out right now, by the way.
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