Kitchen Cabinet Clean Out – Getting Organized

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

Most of us do not have time to pull everything out of every one of our kitchen cabinets and clean and declutter. Each month I give you a mission to clean out one cabinet. Over the course of several months, you should be able to work your way through all of your cabinets. This keeps you from getting burned out with big projects. You can also see progress this way. So pick the cabinet that bothers you the most, or you can start on your left and work your way toward the right each month. You can start with top cabinets or bottom cabinets. The goal is to maintain them once you declutter them. I do know that if you have children helping in the kitchen, this can be difficult. If you find things you have not used in years, give it away. It is taking up valuable real estate in your kitchen.

Click on the link below if you would like to download a copy of all of the Misssions for March 2016.

 

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Zone Mission: Declutter and clean one kitchen cabinet.

I will be speaking at the Teach Them Diligently Conference in Nashville, TN, March 17-19, 2016. If you are in the area, please sign up and attend. I would love to meet some of my readers. I will also be at the other two Teach Them Diligently events in Atlanta, GA, and Sandusky, OH. In June, I will be speaking at the North Carolinians for Home Education conference in Winston-Salem, NC. You can read more about these events on the Events Page on my website. 

If you need more help with organizing your home and homeschool, you can download  The FlyLady’s Homeschool Teacher and Homeschool Student Control Journals for free.

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment
Home:
  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
  • Clean out your refrigerator. Toss the science experiments.

School: How’s the weather where you are? Add some weather tracking to your school day for the rest of the month. Track high temperature and low temperature. Track precipitation. Track the sunrise and sunset.

 Afternoon Routine: 
  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Write up a menu plan for the next 7 days. Check your pantry and freezer and make a grocery list. This habit will save you time and money. Try out some new recipes with the slow cooker. It will save you time once you start back to your school schedule.
Family Fun: Take your children for a walk.
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 
  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things at the Launch Pad that you will need first thing in the morning
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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