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Three months has gone by since my last house cleanout update, and this time I decided to add “and projects” to the title because a lot of what I’ve accomplished these last three months were projects rather than cleanouts.
Here’s what I’ve tackled since May…
Kitchen
Accomplishments:
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Cleaned
out and organized kids’ art bins
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Cleaned
out and organized drawers in side table
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Reorganized
the “drop spot” countertop area near our garage door. Brian bought an outlet with multiple ports to
charge the kids’ laptops and Jacob’s phone.
Said Goodbye
To:
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A
massive pile of papers
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All
of the old, broken crayons
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| Art bin cleanout... bye bye, old stuff |
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| Art bin cleanout... all the stuff we got rid of |
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| Stuff we got rid of from the kids' art bins |
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| Stuff we got rid of from the kids' art bins |
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| Olivia's art bin after the cleanout |
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| Jacob's art bin after the cleanout |
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| Left drawer all cleaned out |
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| Right drawer all cleaned out |
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| This is where the kids' art bins are stored, and those are the drawers where everything is stored |
Accomplishments:
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Cleaned
out her closet
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Cleaned
out her dresser
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Cleaned
out her night stand
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Cleaned
out her desk
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Cleaned
out underneath her bed
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Cleaned
off her bookshelf
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Took
down the hanging rack that was making it two tiers to just have one tier since
her dresses were getting too long for it
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Switched
out all of her baby hangers for adult hangers
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Put
all of her old recital costumes in a box in her closet
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Gathered
all of the items she uses for dance recitals and put them in a box on her shelf
closet since we only use them one time a year
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Rehung
Olivia’s canopy over her bed
Said Goodbye
To:
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66
pink baby hangers
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53
white baby hangers
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8
tops
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6
dresses
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1
pair of shoes
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1
skirt
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1
pair of leggings
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1
pair of shorts
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1
large bag of trash
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1
large box of recycling
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1
suitcase
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A
huge stack of old children’s books… I forgot to count, but it was at least 20
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| Olivia's closet cleanout in process |
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| Clothes we got rid of from Olivia's closet |
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| Her closet all organized afterward... we eventually bought a basket for her to put those bags in! |
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| All of the hangers we got rid of from the kids' closets... we donated them to our local outreach center |
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| Everything we got rid of from Olivia's bedroom |
Accomplishments:
-
Cleaned
out his closet
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Cleaned
out his dresser
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Cleaned
off his desk
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Took
down the hanging rack that was making it two tiers since he didn’t really need
it anymore
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Switched
all of his baby hangers to adult hangers
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Moved
keepsake boxes into two stacks so they’re more accessible
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Moved
a Lego set from his top shelf so it’s more accessible
Said Goodbye
To:
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84
white baby hangers
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6
sweatshirts/hoodies
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7
tops
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2 swimsuits
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| Jacob's closet before the cleanout |
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| Everything we got rid of from Jacob's closet |
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| Jacob's closet after the cleanout and rearranging... so much extra space! |
Linen Closet
Accomplishments:
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Cleaned
out the whole closet from top to bottom
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Reorganized
everything
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Organized
the pool stuff
Said Goodbye
To:
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10
beach towels
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3
pillow cases
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5
blankets
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| Linen closet before |
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| Everything we got rid of from the linen closet |
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| Linen closet after |
Accomplishments:
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Cleaned
out part of closet… it wasn’t thorough since I’d just done a big one in January
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Bought
and hung new hangers for shorts and skirts to save horizontal space
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Bought
and hung a new leggings organizer
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Change
out all pants hangers so they now match
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Put
bras in my old leggings basket… they used to be on the shelf thrown under all
of my hanging tops and they were such a pain to find there.
Said Goodbye
To:
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34
mismatched pants/shorts/skirts hangers
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5
pairs of shorts
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1
pair of pants
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1
skirt
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| My new space-saving hangers! |
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| My new space-saving hangers! |
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| My closet before using my space-saving hangers |
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| My closet after using my space-saving hangers... look how much extra space! |
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| My closet with my new leggings organizer |
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| Everything I got rid of from my closet |
Accomplishments:
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Bought
and organized a new greeting card organizer
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Stocked
greeting cards organizer with new cards for all occasions
- Reorganized my Amazon Drive... they made changes to it a couple of years ago forcing us to organize our photos a different way. Well, they recently changed it back to allow us to organize them the old way, so I went back and reorganized them as I liked the old format better
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Got
my office closet cleaned out
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Cleaned
out and organized several folders on my computer
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| New greeting cards organizer |
Accomplishments:
- Hung new frames in the kids’ bathrooms (finally!) as one broke last year
- Developed pictures for all new frames and updated old frames
- Dropped donations
- Hung new light fixture in laundry room
- Brian digitized all of Olivia’s old recital DVDs and I got them backed up
- Sold a lot of old clothes/items on a local Facebook page
- Brian installed magnets in the drawers under our bed so they no longer slide open on their own constantly.
- Cleaned out and organized wrapping paper supplies
- 10 old boxes
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| The kids' bathroom before purchasing and hanging new frames |
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| The kids' bathroom after hanging new frames |
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| Developed pictures for all of our travel frames |
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| Photographed and sold a bunch of old clothes/items on Facebook |
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| Boxes we got rid of from wrapping paper closet |
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| Hot Wheels stuff we got rid of... this took up two giant tubs! |
Happy Wednesday, y’all!
I need to tackle the closets...I did empty one of Zachary's drawers to pass down to Simon!
ReplyDeleteThat's progress!!
DeleteAs much as I hated seeing all the boys old toys get thrown out/given away it was also such a relief to have so much less stuff in the house. We did just clean out Alec's room but I think he had less than one garbage bag to get rid of (and one large box and 1 soft sided bin we packed into the car).
ReplyDeleteIt is always sad to see all of the old stuff go, but the older I get, the easier it gets! Glad y'all were able to get rid of some stuff, too!
DeleteSuch a great clean out! Aw, how bittersweet to transfer from child to adult hangers. I like the bins for the art supplies. Art supplies seem to be never ending!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was definitely bittersweet (and long overdue) switching them to adult hangers! And yes, art supplies are most definitely neve rending! Haha.
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