Finally, one success!!!!! Presenting....

the laundry room/pantry!!!!!!!!!!! It feels so much better to be able to walk in here and find what I need. This is definitely a room that requires organization. Cooking and laundry take up A LOT of my time.

(I actually have the other areas done as well, but no pictures yet. I will post them tomorrow.)

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All the pictures wouldn't fit on my last post. Those were of the pantry, the master bedroom is here. PLEASE read the post below for my defense of the master.

As you can see, I need a lot of prayer this week. (There is even a field trip for one of the three days I have to do this. AHHHHH!!!!)

Here is my filth

These are places I swore to myself I would not show you. No guest coming into my house is permitted behind these doors. Please be kind. Part of the problem is that we just moved and these areas never got attention. Part of the problem, in our room, is that I did A LOT of laundry, put it all on our bed, and then it all got thrown off by my blessings. Since rewashing and/or folding all these clothes is now part of cleaning our room, I went ahead and took the scary awful pictures. Grace, my friends, grace.

I don't know when exactly this will all be done. My first goal is for the school room, pantry, and master bedroom to LOOK decent and presentable. This is my goal for this Friday when my mother-in-law comes in. I will post more before and after pictures to get it totally organized the way I want it.

Still working...

Okay, I realize that I missed my deadline. When I set that date, I didn't realize that I would be out of town for a week of my time. So, I am giving myself another few days. My mother-in-law comes in Friday. My new goal is to have it done by the time I come to co-op on Friday. (We will see. I also have the rest of the house as a goal by then, too. I know, I know it's way too much.)

I will post some other before pictures so I can show you the difference later.

The School Room

Okay, this is my current school room. In my defense, CJ was just over and together we looked through my entire book collection to weed out the ones I didn't need. That put a lot of the books on the floor until I can do something with them. I told you that I wouldn't do anything in the room before I took the pictures, so I stayed true to my word. I have a lot to do to get this room TRULY organized and very functional. Today is Thursday, September 25th. I pledge to you that I will post pictures of this job completed by Saturday, October 4th. That gives me just over a week.

The why and what...

I have started a whole new blog for the sole purpose of being accountable to clean up my act, and therefor my house. I am drowning under a mountain of clutter and jobs that never seem to get done. I will take one job at a time. I will post a "before" picture for your amusement and then set a date for me to have completed the job. I will then post an "after" picture by the date I say showing how I have completed the task. Then, I will post pictures of each accomplished area once a week to keep myself accountable to maintaining the areas.

I am not a nut-so all by myself in case you were getting worried about me. In fact, a friend began this herself and then encouraged other "messies" to join her. I do realize that you have to be sort of off your rocker to subject yourself to this. I still can't believe that I am actually going to show you before pictures. I pledge to you that I will not clean up some first and then take my "before" shot. You will get the whole ugly mess.

Here we go!