Get It Together Girl!

So yesterday I was browsing through my recommendations from Amazon and I came across a Kindle book called Get It Together Girl!: A 28-Day Guide to Practical NOT Perfect Home Organization by Karyn L. Beach. So I sent a free sample to my Kindle and after reading that, I decided to buy it. It was $1.99 and if you are interested you can buy it here.
What the book does is gives you small tasks that take just 15 minutes which the author calls the Focused 15. By doing one task a day for 5 days a week, you can have a more organized house in 28 days. It is broken up into 6 different areas: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom (and closets), office/desk, and living room. I thought I would give this a try so that my house can be a little more organized than it is. I want to get in the habit of keeping a clean house because I know that when I have kids in a few years, it is going to be a little harder to keep the house clean.
So what I’m going to do, is give you a little sample of the book. I don’t want to give it all away because then you wouldn’t have to buy the book! And I don’t want to deprive the author of the money she deserves for this book. So I’m going to take you through the first 5 days.
Day 1 is “Refrigerator Run-Through”. Pretty much you just go through your fridge and get rid of anything that is outdated. If you have to question what something is, toss it! Then move to the freezer and do the same thing. When I did this earlier this morning, it also allowed me to organize my fridge and freezer a bit.
So there ya go…that was simple, right? I don’t even think that first one took me a whole 15 minutes! I’m looking forward to seeing what is coming up on day 2, so stay tuned!!

What I’m Loving…plus Pinterest!!!

So I didn’t do a Pinterest Wednesday post yesterday, but it’s not too late. It’s been a while since I’ve pinned anything, but last night I found a few items I liked. So here they are, enjoy!

Source: marthastewart.com via Nicole on Pinterest

This would be awesome to have in my future house someday!!!

 

Source: blogs.babble.com via Nicole on Pinterest

I totally need something like this to keep my tupperwear lids organized!!!

 

Source: onecharmingparty.com via Nicole on Pinterest

I was looking for some ideas for my future classroom and I found this. Isn’t that cute??

 

Alright, off to what I’m LOVING today!!! There is just one main thing…

I’m LOVING that I finally got a new job!!! I’m going to be a cashier!!! I can’t wait!!! Getting that call has totally made my week, maybe even my month!!!!

Well, that’s all for now. The 2 night premier of The X-Factor is on at 8 tonight, so make sure you check out my recap post of that then. Have a great night everyone!!!

A room a week- end of week 2

If you remember, a few weeks ago in this post I talked about a new project I was going to take on called “a room a week”. The first week was supposed to be the dining room, but I never got around to it so I just decided to move right along with my schedule and clean the bathroom. I forgot to take some before pictures, but here are the after pictures.

 

Before the sink area got cleaned, there was a lot more stuff just sitting beside the sink, so this is definitely an improvement.

 

 

The cabinet above the sink was just filled with stuff and it looked like it was just thrown in there. So I straightened it up a bit and made it more organized.

But guess what…the bathroom wasn’t the only room that got organized. I was bored yesterday since I was off from work, so I thought that it would be cool to get some kind of storage thing to put beside the fish tank so we would have more storage for food. So we went to Walmart and we got a 5 shelf organizer thing (I don’t know what else to call it).

In case you forgot what the area behind the couch and by the dining room table looked like:

And here are the after pictures:

 

 

I am going to do everything I can in order to keep this area clean!! It seems like the place is only cleaned up when we have company over, but that is going to change starting now!!!

Here is what our food pantry used to look like, after I did my organizing project that I blogged about here.

I thought it looked pretty good and everything was easy to find. But I felt like we were running out of room. We were probably running out of room because since I’ve been couponing, we’ve been getting more food than we used to. But it’s all food we need, we’re just getting more because we can get more for less!

Here is what our food pantry looks like now.

I just love how much room there is in the pantry now and how you can find everything easier than before!!!

So now, we are on week 3 of a room a week which is the kitchen. I don’t know that there is going to be anything to throw away or giveaway, but I know for sure that it could be organized a bit. It’s too late now, so tomorrow I will start on that and then let you know next Sunday how I did! Have a great rest of your Monday night everyone, and be sure to stop by tomorrow sometime when I will post part 2 of my vacation!!!