Before Pinterest...

Anyone else remember life before Pinterest? Bookmarking all those blog posts we wanted to come back to? Saving STACKS of magazines so we could come back to the articles later? Well I finally went through my many stacks of magazines and ripped out the articles I REALLY wanted to save and saved them in a binder. I wanted to share it in case any of you needed ideas for the same! Happy reading!

building habits

In no way, shape or form am I a "neat freak".  I have my little quirks about certain things, but my home is not super tidy or spit spot clean.  It kinda drives some of my family members crazy actually.  But it's not filthy and "hoarder-like" either.  Just, kind of, organized chaos. Yeah, that's it.

I am trying to form new, cleaner and tidier, home habits though, if for any other reason but to teach my daughter to be clean and tidy.  I have found that, while it is so nice and refreshing to have your ENTIRE house all of the sudden spit spot clean and all tidy, for ME, that is not maintainable.  So what I do, is focus on 1 or 2 areas that influence me the most (and that I influence the most) and focus for a week on keeping those areas clean, neat and tidy.  Then move on to 1 more area, and add a new area weekly until I have the house handled.

I started with my kitchen and the area across from my Master Closet. It's been 3 days and both are still clean and tidy!!  I am VERY happy!!!  PLUS the best part of the kitchen being clean and tidy is that I have been more inspired to try out new recipes and cook, AND my husband even tried out a recipe last night AND cleaned up his own mess!

What habit will you work on??