Detail Dust Your Bedroom – Getting Organized

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Today, let’s detail dust the bedroom. Start high and work your way down. Check the ceiling fan, blinds, and curtains. You may need to wash the curtains if it has been a while since you washed them. This is your last day in this zone, so check to see if there is anything else you need to do to it.

 

Have a great week-end!
If you have any questions or tips, please email me. I enjoy hearing from my readers.
Zone Mission: Detail Dust Your Bedroom

Routines:

 

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.

School:

  • Schedule a field trip for this winter. If you can’t think of one, do some research. See what’s going on close to you.
 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

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 your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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Clean Out Under Your Bed – Getting Organized

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Today, I want you to clean out under the beds and sweep or vacuum. As you can see from th picture of my foot board, We have laminate flooring, so we sweep under our bed. Dust bunnies like to gather under there every month, so this is on my regular monthly cleaning projects for the bedroom. The boys also clean out under their beds once a month and sweep or vacuum. This is not a difficult task, if you do it regularly.

Zone Mission – Declutter under your bed.

Routines:

 

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.

School:

  • Look at your bookshelves. Do you need to do some reorganizing or purging?
 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

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 your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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Folded Clothes Declutter – Getting Organized

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 The worst offender in putting away laundry is our folded laundry. Today, I want you to declutter some of your folded clothes. If you only have the amount of folded clothes that will easily fit in your drawers, you can put your folded clothes up quickly and easily. The same principle applies to your children’s folded clothes. Since I have 4 boys at home, the biggest offender in the folded clothes is the t-shirt collection. If you also consider that I run in several races a year, I collect race t-shirts, too. I have thinned out that collection, and I am going to use the rest of the collection to make a quilt. I have several favorite races, and I want to keep the t-shirts. Socks are another offender in the folded clothes collection. If you have a basket or box of unmatched socks, go through it and throw out the ones that do not have mates. You can do this as a family while you watch a movie. Give a reward to whoever matches the most socks.
Zone Mission: Declutter Your Folded Clothes

Grocery Shopping and Errand Day – Take your list, pack snacks, and water bottles.

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.

School: Are you doing a read aloud book for the whole family? If not, pick one out and read at lunch time or in the evening. It will bring a new dimension to your school day.


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
  • Errand day: Make your plan for grocery shopping and errands. Pack water bottles and snacks for everyone. Pack up your library books that need to be turned in.
Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. I am in the habit of checking for free activities that are going on while we are out doing errands.
When you get home from doing errands, have everyone work together to unload and put away everything.

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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Master Closet Tuesday – Getting Organized

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Today, we are going to work in the master closet for 15 minutes. Have a basket or bag handy to put items to give away. Since we are near the season change, look closely at your winter clothes. Are there things there that you did not wear this winter or last winter? Put it in your Give Away bag. Do you have clothes that do not fit? Pull them out for the Give Away bag. I do this monthly, and I still get rid of things each month. Of course, I get rid of the most stuff at the season change. Do the same thing in your children’s closet. You can ask your husband to spend five minutes handing you things for your Give Away bag. I bagged up two black bags to give away this month. If you keep your closet thinned down, it is much easier to put away laundry. We all have too many clothes in our homes. Let’s work at bringing that amount down.

Zone Mission: Declutter your master closet and work with your children and husband on their closets, too.

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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Master Bedroom Detail – Getting Organized

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This week we are going to work in our Master Bedroom. If you have children at home, you can also apply this to their bedrooms and give them daily zone assignments. The goal is to only do this for 15 minutes at a time. Some of these areas in your room might need longer than that. There is nothing wrong with stopping and going back to this at another time. I work my way through my master closet one section at a time each month. I work on the shelf, the right side, the left side, and the floor. This can be applied to your children’s closets as well. When I declutter dresser drawers, I do them one at a time. I only spend 15 minutes doing this, so if I only get one done, then I do another drawer on another day. This method really works over time. You just have to be patient and consistent. You have to let go of that urge to pull out everything. Dresser tops attract clutter, so work on those this week and see if you can maintain them until next month. Try to store minimal items under your bed. This will help you to be able to clean under it regularly. This week, look at your bedroom curtains and/or blinds. They may need to be washed or cleaned.

If you have not filed your taxes, start collecting information this week and set your appointment to get your taxes filled out. April 15 will be here before you know it.

Here are your Zone Missions for the week for Zone 4 – The Master Bedroom

Monday – Declutter Your Dresser Tops
Tuesday – Declutter Your Closet
Wednesday – Declutter Your Folded Clothes
Thursday – Declutter Under Your Bed
Friday – Detail Dust Your Bedroom
 
 
 

Read HERE about the events I will be attending this Spring.

 

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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.
Weekly Home Blessing Hour:
Spread these out over the course of the week. Put a note on each day of the week with one or two of these per day.

7 Parts of the Weekly Home Blessing Hour from The FlyLady:

  • Quick Dust
  • Sweep/Mop
  • Purge Magazines or Paper Clutter
  • Change Bedding
  • Empty Trash
  • Clean Windows/Mirrors
  • Vacuum
 School:
  • Plan one fun activity for this week.
 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
Family Fun: Have some outdoor time with your children today. Play. Do some nature journaling. The point is to add some movement to your day.
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.)
  • Lay anything out 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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Hot Spot Fire Drill Friday – Getting Organized

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Do you have a place or places in your home that always attracts clutter? We call this a hot spot. You may need to do a hot spot fire drill each evening to keep these under control. I clear the hot spot in my kitchen every night after dinner. It only takes 2 to 3 minutes, but it has to be done daily.

 

Have a great week-end!
If you have any questions or tips, please email me. I enjoy hearing from my readers.
Zone Mission: Hot Spot Fire Drill

Routines:

 

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.

School:

  • Schedule a field trip for this winter. If you can’t think of one, do some research. See what’s going on close to you.
 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

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 your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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Decluttering Your House – Getting Organized

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Pick another room to declutter today, or you can go back to the room you worked in yesterday. Being consistent with decluttering will bring you peace and organization in your home. Teach your children to declutter and pick up behind themselves. If they have toys and things scattered throughout their room, they can’t enjoy it. It can also effect their sleep at night if there room is a mess. Make it fun to pick up and declutter. Have contests to see who can put away 27 things first. If they have more stuff than they have room for, consider using plastic bins to sort things and do toy rotation. The less they have access to at one time, the more creative they will be.

Zone Mission – Declutter one area in your home.

Routines:

 

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.

School:

  • Look at your bookshelves. Do you need to do some reorganizing or purging?
 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

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 your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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Pick a Room Wednesday – Getting Organized

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Do you have a room in your house that looks like the picture above? Today, I want you to set your timer for 15 minutes and do a Room Rescue. Make piles or use boxes to sort things by things to throw away, put away, or give away. If it takes a couple of days, you can spend 15 minutes at a time sorting and decluttering. Turn on some fin music and make it a game with your kids.
Zone Mission: Declutter 1 Room in Your Home

Grocery Shopping and Errand Day – Take your list, pack snacks, and water bottles.

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.

School: Are you doing a read aloud book for the whole family? If not, pick one out and read at lunch time or in the evening. It will bring a new dimension to your school day.


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
  • Errand day: Make your plan for grocery shopping and errands. Pack water bottles and snacks for everyone. Pack up your library books that need to be turned in.
Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. I am in the habit of checking for free activities that are going on while we are out doing errands.
When you get home from doing errands, have everyone work together to unload and put away everything.

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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Bathroom Cabinet Clean Out – Getting Organized

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Today, let’s declutter under the bathroom sink. This is an area that often has things stuck way back in the back that you have not used in a long time. Take a trash can to the bathroom, if you don’t already have one in there. Toss anything that you have not used in the past year. Check expiration dates. Check the pipes for leaks. If you find any leaks, share this information with your husband, so he can take a look at it. My main bathroom has a double vanity and and double cabinet, but I can still declutter it in under 15 minutes because I check these cabinets monthly.

Zone Mission: Declutter the cabinet under the sink in your main bathroom.

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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Main Bathroom – Getting Organized

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Welcome to a new week! I hope you had a great weekend.This week we are working in the main bathroom and one extra room. This is your chance to choose the room you want to declutter, or ou can declutter 15 minutes a day in a different room each day. If you have an area that is bothering you, focus on it. If you have decluttered your main bathroom, make sure you have also decluttered any other bathrooms in your home. I am traveling this week to Nashville, Tennessee for the Teach Them Diligently conference, so I will have to work in my main bathroom on Monday and Tuesday only. Fortunately, I don’t need to do too much to it. I swish and swipe daily, and I sweep and mop it weekly. So the main thing I need to check are the cabinets and wipe down the fixtures.

If you have not filed your taxes, start collecting information this week and set your appointment to get your taxes filled out. April 15 will be here before you know it.

Here are your Zone Missions for the week for Zone 3 – The Main Bathroom and One Extra Room

Monday – Detail Clean the Main Bathroom
Tuesday – Declutter under the Sink
Wednesday – 15 Minute Room Rescue in the Room of your Choice
Thursday – 27 Fling Boogie Anywhere in the House
Friday – Hot Spot Fire Drill Anywhere in the House
 
 

 

Read HERE about the events I will be attending this Spring.

 

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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.
Weekly Home Blessing Hour:
Spread these out over the course of the week. Put a note on each day of the week with one or two of these per day.

7 Parts of the Weekly Home Blessing Hour from The FlyLady:

  • Quick Dust
  • Sweep/Mop
  • Purge Magazines or Paper Clutter
  • Change Bedding
  • Empty Trash
  • Clean Windows/Mirrors
  • Vacuum
 School:
  • Plan one fun activity for this week.
 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
Family Fun: Have some outdoor time with your children today. Play. Do some nature journaling. The point is to add some movement to your day.
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.)
  • Lay anything out 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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