Quit with all the acquiring already.

I struggle with this.

It's only a dollar. It can go in the shop. We don't have one like it. It can add to the collection of similar ones. It's got good educational value. I just purged so much I have room.

I really don't have much sentimental attachment to things, so I'm ok tossing/donating things. But we have plenty of storage space so I really don't have to.

Went to the swap meet and decided not to look for things to buy. Look at things, with some cash in my pocket just in case, yes, but not look for things to acquire like I have before. It is ok to leave a store with one item or none. It's ok.

Not very far along the way in the swap meet I see a "free for kids" box of random toys and suggest Ellie look inside. The only one she's interested in was baby-ish and took batteries so I talked her out of it. She wasn't interested in any other.

But! Behold! A $1 pile! With a trike in it!

She's learning the peddling but finds it easier to just walk it with her feet instead.

Then I show her the storage under the seat and find some unidentifiable food item aka a block of mold. Ugk!

Got to our swap meet space to find that grandpa had found a $1 sit and use your feet "bike" and a $1 metal trike (with broken seat).

That taught me a lesson in swap meet shopping.

We have too much stuff.

Perfectionist procrastinator.

I haven't been blogging because I tell myself to do a perfect job, make sure it's edited and includes pictures and blah blah blah. The result: little to no blogging.

So I'm going to challenge myself to blog, imperfectly, more often.

So here come the unedited likely rambly jambly blog posts about whatever pops into my head. I'll consider keeping things on topic.

You've been warned.

SIlverware Drawer mini challenge

Toni at ABFOL has challenged her followers to Mini Challenges, this is one of them!

Yet another Medicine Cabinet Improvement

It is a small space and was working very well for us, except the yucky little jar our toothbrushes stood up in. An impulse buy along with our new toothbrushes sparked this little update.

Before

 Bought a pack of these for $1.87 at Walmart

 I knew they would not suction to the inside of the medicine cabinet where I wanted them, so I pulled out my trusty Command Strips and cut one to fit the back.

 I pulled the suction cup off and attached the Command Strip

I did a test fitting of the toothbrush holders and sadly they were not big enough. I knew that I wouldnt bother returning them for a $2 refund so I decided to see if I could make them work. Cue kitchen shears. 

After

 A little recap!

You may notice that the magnet strip that hung in the top left of the bottom section of the cabinet is missing, yeah I love the command strips but there was a sticker on the back of the magnet strip that did not hold and it fell off. I need to hot glue half of the Velcro-type Command strips to the magnet strip so that I can rehang my metal bathroom tools. It is the project drawer for someday.

I actually did this quite a while ago (I'm a slow blogger) and I can say that the command strips have held on well and we are loving hanging our brushes up!

Back to blogging my flying!

I got the house all tidy before Mikey came home from Vegas. Not spotless and not detailed clean but it was a wreck before he left. It was nice to greet him in a nice clean home.

My goal this week is to keep up with the tidy home and to do some detailed cleaning throughout the week.

I plan to go to bed with a clean kitchen, clear couch and tidy bathroom each night.

Today I wiped the fronts of the lower kitchen cabinets, swept behind the couch and scrubbed inside the toilet.

Sunday is Aunt's Day and Id like to be able to focus on food and decorations rather than cleaning.

Junk drawer mini challenge

I thought this was the end of the challenge until a few days later when I decided I needed more towel/napkin storage in the kitchen.
These are the 2 drawers I decided to work with. The ziplock drawer which had wasted space, and duplicate items that could live elsewhere, and the junk drawer.

I pulled the junk out of the junk drawer and moved the essential ziplocks, saran wrap, etc to the more shallow drawer,

and moved the junk drawer organizer into a funky cabinet that we do not access often. The few junk drawer items we access got moved to more accessible places. I think I will get some sort of organization system inside the cabinet door for things too but that will come. 

In the old ziplock drawer got kitchen towels/cloth napkins. 

Week 1, the Kitchen, fridge front declutter

I am going to be focusing on the kitchen this week with A Bowl Full Of Lemons for the first week of the Home Organization 101. 

First up, something simple and quiet because the family is sleeping in. 

This is a regular job, I have decluttered the fridge outsides many times before but I think it makes a great impact for small effort. 

I moved some note pads to the side you can't see because it doesn't add visual clutter on that side. I took down some old notes mail and stuff. I moved the play magnets to the front door with the others. I took some potholders down and put them in the kitchen linen drawer instead.
On the counter next to the fridge I moved a few big bottles of vitamins up into the spice cabinet, where there was plenty of room thanks to my pantry organization.

This week of kitchen organization should be fun thanks to A Bowl Full of Lemons!