{"id":10774,"date":"2010-04-06T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:42:27","slug":"clean-as-you-declutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/clean-as-you-declutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean as You Declutter: Clean Home, Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2986.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10744 alignleft\" title=\"kitchen drawer\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2986-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen drawer\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you find your small &#8220;trouble&#8221; spot yesterday? It took me about 15 minutes to clean and declutter my kitchen drawer this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/s533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/April2010\/?action=view&amp;current=IMG_2989.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/\/i533.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee336\/anderbach\/April2010\/IMG_2989.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kitchen drawer\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing I noticed as I cleaned out the drawer was the large amount of tiny bits of yuck gathering in the corners. <em><strong>As you declutter that drawer, bookshelf, cabinet, basket, or toy box don&#8217;t forget to give it a good cleaning before you put items back inside. <\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">It doesn&#8217;t make sense to have an organized space that is dirty! <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found 20 items to recycle and throw away in one drawer! This puts me a few steps closer to reaching my goal of getting rid of 730 items in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/category\/homemaking\/clean-home-homemaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clean Home, Fresh Start<\/a><\/em><em> is a month long series to help you create a clean and clutter free home. Feel free to join in, follow along, share your tips and encouragement. Let&#8217;s all help each other create a peaceful and welcoming home for our families, friends, and ourselves.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For even more motivation, join the<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/moneysavingmom.com\/2010\/04\/clear-out-the-clutter-challenge-living-room-and-coat-closet.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Clutter Clear Out <\/a>at Money Saving Mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you find your small &#8220;trouble&#8221; spot yesterday? It took me about 15 minutes to clean and declutter my kitchen drawer this morning. One thing I noticed as I cleaned out the drawer was the large amount of tiny bits of yuck gathering in the corners. As you declutter that drawer, bookshelf, cabinet, basket, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[377,559],"class_list":{"0":"post-10774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-organization","7":"tag-clean-home-fresh-start","8":"tag-decluttering","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15148,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions\/15148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}