Fresh Friday! 40 bags in 40 day progress!

As I tackled our storage area and the kitchen, those garbage bags just weren't going to cut it this week. I brought in the big dogs! I had to have my husband bring in a LARGE box from work! It's about 6 feet long! This was huge and just perfect! Here is what I have cleaned out so far in this project that is now 15 days in the making! (<-click the link) After filling this box, we have another problem that we didn't quite think about properly. It was HUGE and HEAVY! hahaha!! We had to take out the seats to our van in order to fit the box in and it was still interesting to wedge it in. Too bad that AmVets wasn't going to be picking up for a few more weeks, this would have been perfect for their truck.

Have you made any progress at home lately?

40 Bags in 40 Days Fridays!

Friday?! Wow, what happened with the week! It's been a brutal week of heat, storms and fun lol! I have tackled 5 more rooms and this time I went over the garbage bag limit, so I started filling Rubbermaid bins and such! The Bathrooms didn't furnish as much as I had hoped, since we don't keep too much in them. I was able to fill the bags with shower curtains though and old bath toys. It was pretty easy to get organized there. The garage offered some resistance, but the best part is that my husband wanted to deal with that! hahah! 

He's awesome because as I sent stuff down, he was photographing it, to make listing it on craigslist so easy. Before the week was up, we have sold everything that we listed and have 3 big bins and boxes heading to the Goodwill tomorrow! Check out my list of cleaning places HERE. I have a more challenging week ahead of me, as I want to get my bedroom done along with a few other difficult clutter spots, like my studio! YIKES!

How have you moved towards a clutter-free lifestyle?

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Friday Run Down!

Wow, the end of the week already? I'm not too happy with that! I feel like there is so much left to do. Do you all realize how close we are to the school year beginning? Where did Summer go?! One thing we discussed today, was collections. One of the things we enjoy collecting, are dice! We love dice of all kinds, textures, colors and sizes! We enjoy how pretty and fun they are and we love making up our own games too.

It was  National Milk Chocolate Day! We made up some Chocolate Scented Playdough and let your creativity lead the way!
Mix 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup cocoa powder, 1/2 cup salt,1/2 Tbsp cream of tartar. Add 1 1/2 Tbsp cooking oil, 1 cup boiling water. Stir it up, mix well as it begins to clump together. Cook over low heat until dough forms a ball. When cool , mix with your hands.

This has proven to be the most fun of everything we did this week! haha!

I also made up a fun sight word dice game, this has been proven to be a lot of fun for my son, but the other 2 kids also want in on it, since it involves rolling dice and using a do-a-dot marker! hahha!! 

I am trucking my way through this week's 40 bags in 40 days, so much so, that instead of garbage bags, I have filled BOXES! I find it so hard to believe that there was that much clutter in those rooms! In the LIST, the lines in yellow are the places I have already done.

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40 Fresh Fridays!

I have been inspired by reading THIS BLOG and cannot wait to start! For the next 8 weeks, I will share my updates on Fridays! I will be starting on Monday and will update my 1st haul on Friday as with every Friday following. This is originally done during the Lenten season, but I love the idea and will do it now! Care to join me? Let me know and just get started on Monday. Next Friday, I will put up a linky party and you can link up how you are coming along. 

First, pick out the type of garbage bag you will fill. I am using THESE from TARGET. There are 88 in the box and I am setting them aside JUST for this project, so I don't have an excuse that I ran out of bags! Next, plan out what you will do with your bags. I plan on donating ours to Goodwill, since I am forever finding my Thrifty Treasures there!

Now it's time to write your list! That's why we are not starting until Monday. This gives everyone plenty of time to come up with 40 places that they would like to purge. We will do it over the course of 8 weeks, so that we are not cleaning on the weekends.  Of course you can just purge 5 bags in 1 day if that's all you have time for, but I like the idea of doing 1 thing a day and having the ability to cross something to cross off my list everyday! As much as I love my nifty clipboard above, I went ahead and put my list ONLINE so that it would be easy to access and cross off.

Now we are ready to go! If you are joining, go ahead and do a quick post about it, so that everyone can be ready to start on Monday! Snag the button above and we are ready to roll! Let's get cleaning people!!

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