My cleaning schedule

So I’ve been wanting to create some kind of cleaning schedule and then post it somewhere that I can check off each item as it is done. I’ve looked online for cleaning templates and just couldn’t find any that I really liked or fit what I need. So I found a template for Excel that allows you to customize the list. I took that template, changed it up a bit, and printed out a list of things to clean daily and weekly.

Take a look at what I came up with…

If you’d like to use this template, you can check it out here.

Then once I printed out the template, I took an 8’’ by 11’’ frame and put the printout in that. Now I can take a dry erase marker to check off each item as it is done and write the date of when I need to do that item again. I’m so excited to try this out and I hope it helps me stay on top of house work!!!

What a crazy weekend that was…

Well, where do I begin. It seems like forever ago since I’ve blogged. My last final was on Friday, then I came home, unloaded all my stuff I had in my dorm room and I had to go to work an hour later. The place looked like a tornado went through it! And we had to fix that quick because on Saturday my mom came and spent the night and we had dinner with me, my fiancé, my mom, my dad, and my step-mom.

Then it was a crazy day at work yesterday, Sunday. There’s a truck convoy that Make-a-Wish does every year on Mother’s Day. It just so happens that the truck convoy goes right past where I work. We were all prepared for it to be busy right before it started and then slow once the trucks started going past us. Well…right before it started, one of our printers broke and when one is broken, none of the others work. So the tickets weren’t printing out (I work at fast food, by the way), and when we scanned for our orders (scanning is what it is called when we go to take orders out), the ticket didn’t print out that tells us what tray to take out. We got all backed up and customer’s got really mad. I feel bad for all the mother’s that were there for Mother’s Day and just want to apologize (even though it wasn’t mine or any other person’s fault, it was a technical issue) if I ruined any mother’s day.

So then I got home from work and after dinner my fiancé and I went to Walmart to go grocery shopping and to get some things to put stuff on so it wasn’t piled on the table or on the floor.

This is what the floor behind the couch looked like. I had a pile of stuff just laying there, it was a mess!

This is right outside the bathroom. I wanted to get something to put here where I could put things on.

This is right beside the desk where we had a little table that we had the printer on. My fiancé wanted to get something bigger for this space.

So those are the before pictures, and here is what it looked like after we went to Walmart:

A closer view

This is now what the floor looks like behind the couch. We got a 4 shelf bookcase but only made it into a 3 shelf one because it was too high with 4. We were going to put that right beside the bathroom but it ended up being too big for there. Instead, this is what we put in front of the bathroom:

 

This was the little table right beside the desk that had the printer on it. We didn’t know what else we were going to do with it, so my fiancé thought it would be perfect there.

Then this is what we got to put beside the desk.

Right now it’s kind of empty, but I’m sure we’ll eventually fill it up. I want to go to the dollar store sometime to get some collapsible cloth containers to put in a few of the holes.

I also had another project I wanted to tackle: the food pantry!

Here is what it looked like before:

 

And after:

I just love containers! They can be used for pretty much anything!!! It will just be so much easier to find everything since everything is sorted now.

My next project is my closet. I have an insanely large amount of clothing that I have to go through and get rid of because I can’t fit the clothes I had down at college into my closet!! This project might take me a lot longer than the other one did, but who knows. Thanks for reading! Leave me comments!!

 

 

I’ve been inspired…

I was looking at Jen’s blog at IHeart Organizing and I got inspired to do some organizing of myself. The semester will be over soon so then I will be living with my fiancé full-time. Right now, I’ll be honest, the place is somewhat of a mess! I just need to find simple and easy ways that we can keep the place organized. The first place I decided on was the freezer and fridge. Our freezer is very tiny so I needed to do something!!! I was reading on Jen’s blog about containers and how they are great for everything.

So here is a picture of my freezer before I organized it.

 

 

You can see that everything is just thrown in there and you have to take a lot of things out just to find what you’re looking for.

Now here are the pictures of the freezer after I organized it.

 

I got two totes that came with lids (I didn’t use the lids so I just kept them for future use). I put the meat in the one on the right and the other one has garlic bread, tater tots, and a thing of frozen tomato sauce. The on the very left are two ice cube trays, the bread on top of that and then a container of frozen cookie dough that I bought from my cousin.

I love how the freezer looks now because it will be easier to find things!! Here is a side-by-side view of the before and after.

 

I also organized my fridge a little bit. I forgot to take pictures of it before, but here are the pictures of the fridge after I organized it.

 

Trust me, my fridge looks a lot better now than it did before. I will definitely be able to find things a lot easier.

Up next, I think I want to look into getting something to put all the stuff on our kitchen table.
Wouldn’t you say that this mess needs fixed desperately??

Thanks for reading!!! Leave me comments and any ideas you have for me!  Have a great Saturday!!!