Messy Home Challenge

**homesteadmamma** · 12-24-2008, 09:53 AM

You were definitely busy. have a wonderful dinner today.

**madhen** · 12-24-2008, 12:48 PM

Woo hoo!! Everything done (except laundry is still in the process of laundering

) and I can concentrate on the cooking!! (Hmm, maybe also ought to take a shower....)

**Thrifty Mom** · 12-24-2008, 08:26 PM

Hope your evening with family leaves you with warm memories. I am envious.

**madhen** · 12-25-2008, 12:03 PM

I managed to get about half the Christmas serving dishes/plates/etc. cleaned up last night before I ran out of steam. I need to finish that this morning, so I can have a nice, clean kitchen again. I managed to keep the trash fairly well-contained yesterday. Everyone was good about bagging up their garbage (wrapping paper and such) and getting into one area, so other than the kitchen (and the upstairs bedroom, where I dumped all the clutter), the house looks pretty good.

**Debbie-cat** · 12-25-2008, 11:05 PM

It's nice my Mom was here. She and DH cleaned up after the large meal today and DH packed up everything nicely for future meals. I was dead tired after cooking all day for 16 people, so it will be nice to wake up tomorrow morning with a clean kitchen!

**madhen** · 12-25-2008, 11:11 PM

Wow, that WILL be nice!

The Christmas faeries missed my house, and I woke up to the same pile I left when I went to bed. Oh, well....

**homesteadmamma** · 12-25-2008, 11:14 PM

Dh and oldest son did the dishes which was so nice here. I played at the computer while they were doing them.

**madhen** · 12-26-2008, 02:39 AM

Got the last of the Christmas dishes washed up, so now I just have to figure out where to store them.

Brought one load of laundry up from the laundry room. Will fold and put it away tomorrow.

Cleaned up around the birds' cages and laid towels down to catch any messes.

**madhen** · 12-27-2008, 12:18 PM

Didn't do much yesterday. Brought up some more clean laundry and did a load of wash. Need to fold and put away everything now.

**Janbee** · 12-27-2008, 02:43 PM

Slow and steady wins the race and you sound like a winner.

**ladykemma2** · 12-27-2008, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by madhen

I have a three-story home, and I live alone, but I have NO room!! And every house seems disorganized and cluttered. I go through major clean-ups, and they last a week or so, and then things fall into disrepair again.

With the change in my work schedule (going in 2p - 12p on average, getting home anywhere between 1a and 3a or sometimes even spending the night at the office and driving home the next morning) things have gotten even more out of control.

I too work 10-12 hour days, so please be reasonable with yourself. i spend a half hour to an hour a day (roughly) cleaning and tidying. the marathon cleaning sessions don't work for me.

**Janbee** · 12-27-2008, 03:16 PM

I was thinking about how I could do this challenge.
I think I will do a location a month house divide into 12 locations
I will start with the Living room as that is the room everyone see the most.
I will clean that room from top to bottom for the month. I am starting today but it is really my January 2009 room.

**madhen** · 12-27-2008, 03:17 PM

My decision to "clear a little spot" for holiday stuff has turned into a major cleaning overhaul of both my walk-in closet and one storage area in my wall. (I have several kind of odd, sort of hidden, storage areas with doors in the walls of the upstairs floor of the house. They are not super convenient, so I am trying to use them for stuff I want to keep, but that I don't use much. Right now, they have been junk collectors. So junk is being pulled out and separated into three piles: keep, give away, throw away.

**jolenegreen2** · 12-28-2008, 07:09 PM

defiatley joining thsis one!

**madhen** · 12-28-2008, 07:55 PM

Hauled out a bunch of Freecycle stuff. Got about 1/2 the Christmas stuff stored away in its new storage area. Took six bags of garbage to the dump!

Wrapped up all the Christmas dishes.