Tackle it Tuesday

My tackle it this week was the dreaded pile in the bedroom. This pile was on the love seat which has finally found its way back into the living room. This pile has been accumulating since last year on the love seat. Time to get rid of it! I could not get this all done in one day as I had to find places to put all this lovely stuff. The job is done and this spot will be my temporary sewing point! The basket under the table has stuff that needs to be sewed. The gold box has my sewing supplies in it. The box with the propped up lid has baby kittens in it that were born Sunday.

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Tackle It Tuesday

This week was a mess! I tackled my pantry. It was so disorganized that I did not know what food I had and what I did not have. After pulling everything from the pantry and placing it on my clean table I was stunned! What a mess. I wiped down all the shelves and turned it. I had decided to place the back of it towards my desk instead of lined up with it. Now came the task of replacing and tossing. I sometimes buy extra when it is marked down. So I have lots of pasta, for 3 pound boxes at 35 cents a box, 10 boxes hot cocoa @ 50 cents a box,4 boxes lasagna noodles @ 40 cents a box, four 5 pound bags of bread flour @ 50 cents, five double cans of pumpkin @ 50 cents a can, 12 boxes of Hamburger Helper @ $1 a box. That is all I have left from my big buys. Yes I remember the prices. It is a quirk that I have, being able to remember stuff like that. I tried to place everything on shelves with similar type items, baking stuff together, pasta, beans and rice, can goods, box goods etc. On the bottom shelf is my ice cream maker, light bulbs and energy drinks.

I like doing this because I can see what I have and what I need.

One of the things that got tossed was paper, loots of paper. I shredded 3 full bins of paper in my shredder! I told you I have the tendency to save it. There were bills(paid ones LOL) from 2003! I have not had this cabinet that long!

The back of the cabinet will be a minor tackle. I still have to get what I need. I am going to put cork tiles and a dry erase board on it. This will be a new "wall" for my desk.

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Tackle it Tuesday

The Tackle it Tuesday stuff has really been helping me. After doing the tackle I am inclined to keep it that way! Maybe, just maybe, I will be able to get my whole house clean!

This week I tackled my desk. It is another catchall. I guess because so much time is spent here. Between the 3 of us the desk stays pretty busy. My desk is in my livingroom. EVERYTHING is in here it seems like. I guess that is why it is called the LIVING room! You will notice there is kitchen stuff on the desk. It is easy for that to happen. My desk is also right next to an open kitchen. The stove is maybe 6-7 feet from the end of the desk. It is a big desk! There is paper clutter on it, cups, and a bowl that SOMEbody ( I won't say who) left there. Discs are scattered about instead of in the holder and dust everywhere. The red blob in the center I can do nothing about.

I put stuff up and placed the stuff on the shelves straight. All food products were placed in the pantry where they belonged, dishes in the washer and other kitchen items were put up. I tossed paper, shreded paper and filed paper.Everything was moved and dusted. Books and paper stacks were straightened up. All discs were placed in their sleeve and put in the holder. The dolls were dusted and rearranged. These are our Easter parade dolls. Every year Brook has been getting a doll for Easter and now we make a paparde with them. The rest of the Easter stuff will be placed later this week. The red blob is in bed or my desk will stay straight for a couple more hours.

This will be the hardest to keep clean. Now everyone can see just how big a slob I really am.

Tackle It Tuesday

Last week due to UPS failure to make a timely delivery of my new broadband modem, I was unable to do anything on the internet! Talk about having serious withdrawals!My project this week is actually what I was going to do last week but did not get to it. Well... I did, I just did not finish it. Flylady would call this one of my hotspots. Things pile up and before I know it it is a mountain to tackle!



I manage to find a place for everything to go. I put the garbage in the garbage, the groceries in the cupboards, the paper went into the shreader and all the other odds and ends went where they went. I got the lemon oil out and gave the table a good polishing. I can see a future tackle it involving the finish on my table!

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Tackle it Tuesday

Tackle it Tuesday seemed like a way for me to get things done that I keep putting off. Regardless of what you may or may not have read, I am a lousy housekeeper. I do stuff and do stuff and never get stuff done. I hate cleaning and try to avoid it whenever possible. I need to get things done and keep it that way. I thought that maybe if I exposed pictures of my stuff that needs to be done on the web I just might get it done. At least for as long as it lasts I will be doing the Tackle it Tuesday spot on 5 minutes For Mom.


The project this week for me was my baker's rack in my kitchen. When I got this a few years ago I was tickled. I had never had anything like it before. It has become a catchall and a mess! Everything has been tossed on and under it from flour to tools.





I removed everything from it. I went thru my cookbooks and gave the ones I do not use to my daughter. I washed the shelves down top and bottom, front and back. Everything was washed and dried. Tools were placed in toolbox, garbage was tossed, paper was shredded. Lids that went to nothing were donated. If it did not belong on the rack it went away. I actually put the stuff where it belonged instead of just putting it somewhere else.




Now I am ready to start on next's week project.