Teeny Tiny Tidy-Up Tuesday Post (on a really BIG subject)
In weight loss, as in toilet training, as in life – I think the key to success is setting attainable goals. Well, I haven’t been attaining much in the way of Tidy Up Tuesday posts lately, but you don’t get much more attainable than this: I pulled out the last of my maternity clothes. (ooooooh!) [...]
Great Garage Cleanout: The Not-So-Instant Replay
[The Instagram pics don't seem to load very well - you may need to refresh the page a few times. Bleh.] This post feels a little bit like I’m cheating, but I’m going to do it anyway. Because Sara April issued a Garage Cleanup Challenge – at my suggestion – and not only did I [...]
Everything I ever needed to know about tidying I learned from Dora the Explorer
Have you ever watched Dora the Explorer? At the beginning of every adventure, she consults her map, which always has exactly three steps to get to where she needs to go. A typical trek might take her across the raging river, and over the slippery rock, to crocodile lake. Through the rest of the journey, [...]
The Garage
When we moved into our new house, we had a very aggressive timeline. We closed the new house one Wednesday, and the old one the next Wednesday. We had my sister’s out of town wedding the weekend in between, and a 10-month-old in tow. So when I got the keys at 4pm, the first thing [...]
A Cluttered Mind
[Sidenote: Today is not just Tidy-Up Tuesday, it's also Two-Post Tuesday. Check out my very first post on Losing It in Ottawa!] Tidy-Up Tuesday is usually about tidying stuff, but I thought I’d take a different tack today and talk about ideas. Get them? Me too. And I’m hoping that since Sara likes them, she [...]
The Self-Cleaning Pet
About a year ago, after years of hemming and hawing and debating whether it would be a completely self-indulgent gadgety boondoggle, we bought a Roomba. It was initially very popular around here. The grown-ups watched it wander the house while postulating on its mapping algorithm. We contemplated attaching googly-eyes. Miss Bea (then 18 months old) [...]
Closet Clean Out
My closet needs a clean-out. Did I get it done in time for Tidy-Up Tuesday? Of course not. But I did find some added motivation. I’ve decided that this: needs one of these: An iPad Sweater!! How cool is that? You can answer that question in this Geek Sugar poll, where I first came across [...]
Tidy Up Tuesday: What’s NOT in the Kitchen
Sara has had a series running for some time now called “Tidy Up Tuesday”, and I’ve decided to join in the fun. In a previous Tidy Up Tuesday post I talked about some of the stuff in my kitchen, or more specifically, stuff that’s been stuffed into baskets. Ok, so maybe that’s not all that [...]
The Slippery Slope
Today, Sara wrote about how she embraces the cycle of tidy (and not so tidy) in her house. I don’t do this very well. Instead of a cycle, I tend to view it as a slippery slope, where you have to fight for every single inch of progress. Even if you happen to get to [...]
Tidy Up Tuesday: What’s in the Kitchen
Sara has had a series running for some time now called “Tidy Up Tuesday”, and I’ve decided to join in the fun. As I mentioned last Tuesday, there are two things you should know about me when it comes to home organization: I am pathologically organized I am pathologically lazy As I also mentioned, this [...]
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