Too busy?

It would appear so seeing my lack of participation in challenges lately, or anything creative for that matter. But here is the real truth... I have NO motivation, yeah I have tons of motivation to get in there and make something creative... but I have other obligations I need to conquer first, such as a clean room and house, so I feel guilty digging into anything else until I get that simple thing done... However out of this comes a pretty good housekeeping tip!

If cleaning for a get together you are planning or just to get caught up, and need a way of keeping that way until the event or you finish EVERYWHERE, this tip is for you. I buy cheap masking tape... cheap because it gets kinda wasted, masking because it won't peel paint. I tape off each room as I finish it. A big x so it is hard to enter, I even tape off bathrooms... and no I don't expect the kiddos to go outside for their business, but that tape not only means keep out, it lets them know I expect it to stay that way. When The kids were younger they were under the illusion that they were sneaking in, and just leaving it clean, now they are older and know if it is taped it better stay exactly as it was when entered. Then when finished or just before company arrives, pull the tape. I like this because not only does it keep it up until you are done, but it marks progress.

Now if I accomplish what I plan on today I will post pics of my finished rooms taped off. And maybe get a little creative project done, but if not I will for sure have a project done in a week's time... waiting on an order for something to finish it!

LAUNDRY

If you are a reader of my other blog you know I am going back to my original laundry solution that worked. I tried for a while letting my teenagers do it, so they would learn how, but they have failed miserably... a full day of laundry and still not caught up has proved this.

So how did I once stay so organized you ask? I had a basket for each room, not a hamper that hid the laundry, a basket that matched cute in there. A pink one for the girls, a blue one for the boys, a white one for us, and a cream one in the bathroom. Each night I would tell the kids to collect the baskets for me, and I would sort the clothes out by colors into the baskets. Reds in the girls, Darks in the boys, Whites in ours, and lighter colors in the bathroom one. They then went to bed, I began running the loads that night and through the morning (they were fairly small since it was one days worth divided by 4)in the morning before they left for school they had to get their own basket of laundry, which I sorted back into their own baskets, and put them away before they left for school. Giving them the empty basket to fill with dirty clothes throughout the day again.

I think I can still have my teens help since they stay up later now, and get up early for school, I will just leave the basket in the room for when they get home. I had a friend do laundry similar, but only once a week, I found this left too much to do in one day, plus with my jobs I rarely have a full day off.