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Yesterday on Twitter, Carrie asked me if I was nesting or just cleaning. I am not nesting yet, but our house had a case of the winter blahs and it was time for some serious deep cleaning. We cleaned out the garage (which I didn’t get pictures of) as well as the master bedroom, pantry, laundry room, and just about anything else that wasn’t tied down.

First I went through two boxes that had been sitting on the top shelf of my pantry since I moved in, in June!

Now I have more free space at the top of my pantry for food storage.

I then organized the bins that sit on top of the school cubbies. They were a mess and needed some serious organization.

I cleaned them out and organized them.

Flash cards

Odds and ends – Mom only

Charts, manipulatives, bible stuff

I found many items I thought were missing and now using our flash cards will be so much easier since they are all in one spot.

One of my friends came over and helped me organized my apparently gigantic fabric stash, as well has other odds and ends in my bedroom. It is time to make room for the baby. Since Christmas and my sew-cation my room has been a pit of disaster. I had to walk over fabric, sewing machines, needles (ouch), and a large variety of other items to get to bed. I forgot to take any before pictures, but I do have a during picture.

It looks so good now that it is clean. I don’t want to ever go in there again, so it stays that way .

I finally got a new bedspread. Now I just have to make some shams… hmmm, sounds like another tutorial.

Finally I attacked the laundry room. This is another area that has been a mess since we moved in. I used the shelves to store stuff I didn’t want to unpack or organize when we first moved in.

It looks so clean, I hope I will be inspired to keep up with the laundry now.

It is interesting, many of these jobs I put off doing because they seemed overwhelming. Aside from my bedroom, most of these jobs only took a few minutes. I can’t believe I have lived with these thorns in my side for several months and in a weekend I was able to eliminate most of them.

If there are jobs that seem overwhelming to you ask a friend for help. My friend helped me to sort and purge my fabric and find a system that works. Had she not come over and been a little extra motivation for me, I would probably still be sleeping in a disaster zone.

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