Baby steps, day ten

[serene]

(The baby steps are at this FlyLady link.) I'm adding "(and do 15 minutes of decluttering)" to every day's tasks, because until I get rid of the clutter, I'll never get on top of the cleaning.

Day One: Shine the sink
Day Two: Get dressed to lace-up shoes
Day Three: Read FlyLady BigTent emails
Day Four: Look at sticky note (in bathroom and kitchen)
Day Five: Write down negative things you're saying to yourself, then write down positive stuff to counter that
Day Six: Spend two minutes on a Hot Spot
Day Seven: Pick out clothes for tomorrow
Day Eight: Make binder for control journal
Day Nine: Add a five-minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.



Day Ten: Set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine until the timer goes off.

But first, the five-minute room rescue and 15 minutes of decluttering.

Before the room rescue:





After:



Here's bookcase 6 after 15 minutes of decluttering it:



And here, just for fun, are James's birthday pizzas:





It's embarrassing, but I managed to gather up three kitchen bags of trash and put them out in fifteen minutes, easily. I'm hoping as things get better I'm unable to even find that much trash in my house.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Oh wow, that is a big difference! And yes, we've never found as much crap as the first time we flyladied.