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The beginning autumn brings with it the season full of holidays. Our first holiday creeping up on us will be Halloween! I want everyone to get their homes ready to get cozy before that cold air starts blowing in. Follow the weekly challenges, read the articles. Put what your reading into action. Only you can make your house a home and haven for your family. Only you can offer that peace and solitude away from the hectic outside world. Coming home from a hard days work and school, our families deserve to be greeted by a smell of homemade goodness coming from the kitchen. They deserve to walk into the comfort of their bedrooms to a clean and fresh bed to snuggle into. They deserve the little extra touches we provide in decorating the home and making it comfortable for them. Lets make our houses homes that our families are proud of and eager to get to each and every day! Its up to you to make that happen!
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The Basics of Managing and Prioritizing Time
By your actions through the day, do you achieve the life that you want for yourself and your family? Or are you always frantic, procrastinating, and have periods of useless activity? Well than its time to rethink your time management. Before we can organize our home we must learn how to use our time more efficiently and to the best of our advantage. Continue Reading >>>
Weekly Letter
Dear Dawn,
Do you have any ideas on how to start preparing for the holidays? I want the house clean, decorated and organized. I want to really enjoy the holidays this year without running around and missing it all. Help!
Frazzled by the season
Dear Frazzled,
Start by making a list. What is it you want to accomplish. When do you want it accomplished by. Make smaller lists for each item. Say you want to have your Christmas Cards done by December 5th. On another piece of paper, make a list of what you need to do to accomplish this. Buy stamps, buy cards, get addresses, make list of people you will send them to. Also mark your calendar. Mark the day you want them to go out, and also one week before mark a reminder date. Continue to do this with everything on your list. You’ll have a master list, and sublists. Organization is the key to success. Remember to not overwhelm yourself. Follow the weekly challenges that we have here, and they will help to get your home ready for the holidays.
Fall Cleaning Your Bathrooms
Be sure to follow the weekly challenge of decluttering and organizing your bathroom before moving on to the deep cleaning. Or you will just be cleaning around a lot of junk. So lets clean our newly organized bathrooms!
Begin by removing everything from the bathroom. Take out all the rugs, the shower curtain, garbage pail, anything on the vanity, the hamper, and take down your blinds or drapes.
Wash drapes and bathroom rugs.
Remove the rubber mat from the tub/shower. Scrub the mat on both sides, rinse well. Most rubber mats can also be machine washed with bleach.
Spray down your shower/tub with your favorite cleaner and scrub well. Use a stiff scrub brush, or a tooth brush on the grout. If grout is mildew stained, try using a bleach pen to clean. Using car wax on tiles will leave a shine and help prevent water spots. If you prefer to use natural ingriedents for the tiles, you one part vinegar to 4 parts water, or stronger if needed. Rinse with clear water and buff dry with a soft twoel or coth to prevent streaking.
Sinks and Faucets. Clean these with your favorite products.
To clean a soap dish, put it right in the dishwasher Continue Reading >>>
Organize Your Bathroom!
This week we will get the bathroom organized, and cleaned. Before we can really clean we need to declutter! So lets do it ladies. Our bedrooms are done, and now we’ll get the bathrooms done. Pretty soon your whole house will be ready to decorate and celebrate!
What do you throw away?
- Medicines with expired dates and any extra bottles of medications you seldom or never use.
- Half-used bottles of shampoo and other hair care products that have been opened but are not being used. This shampoo can be used for soaking and cleaning combs and brushes in the sink.
- Make up that you no longer like or use which includes mascara, eye and lip pencils and lipstick and lip gloss.