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I’ve been sorely neglecting cleaning the home. I prefer to clean a little each day as opposed to an all out cleaning in the Spring and Fall. This method helps me keep up with the home better and if I miss a day or two it doesn’t matter because the room gets touched up every several weeks.

I’m starting out in the dining room because it’s annoying me. I started with decluttering. Then moved on to cleaning overhead light fixtures. I’ll dust the ceiling today (I know I should have done that first) and then move on from there.

Trays of Plant Starts (Photo credit: OSU Master Gardener)

I put out my plant starts this week to start hardening them off. I have sweet potatoes, peppers, and basil (should I have started that from seed outside). That’s nothing to my friends 25 plants of Swiss Chard. I’m so jealous! I’ll also train the peas up the trellis and…make some calcium tea from egg shells.

That’s it for my procrastinating.

How about you? Visit New Nostalgia for more anti-procrastination posts.

I know people say that New Years Goals don’t stick and by the time March rolls in you’ve forgotten all about them. Well these following New Year cleaning and organizing roundups are for January (mostly) so plenty of time to get it out of your system and leave a clean and well organized home behind. Besides that’s more than 21 days which we all know is amount of time it takes for something to become habit. So get your clean on and choose your favorite way to clean and organize.

HomeMadeSimple Get Organized in 30 Days

CleanMama Clean and Organized in 2012 complete homekeeping calendar for Jan 2012.

I'm a little late with this one but it only takes 14 days. I'm impressed with the fridge on Day 4.

Home Storage Solutions is continuing on with their 52 Weeks to an Organized Home missions. Jump in to get your Kitchen in gear.

It’s late Friday and I had meant to blog all day but kept forgetting. But I’m hear now so…

I keep my Peanuts shampoo and baby soap in a little bucket I cart back and forth from her room to the bathroom. Just my way but that’s not the point. I shove this bucket under her changing table (a badger basket folding thing). So the other day I accidentally kicked it over ONLY I didn’t notice I had kicked it over until much later when half the bottle of baby bath had nicely soaked into the rug

Well hubby came to the rescue. He told me he would clean it up and I of course grilled him on exactly how was he going to do this as I may need this information for future reference. He made cute little comment about the pointers on my website (honey I have none for an occasion such as this) and got busy on the job.

So ladies in watching him rectify my error here is what he did.

1. Scooped up as much soap as her could with towels.
2. Got a bucket of water and this brush we often use to get spots out of the rug
3. Add a little bit of water with the brush to the soap spot and then used the shop vac to suck up the suds.
4. He kept doing this until there were no more suds to suck up just water.

Would I do it this way ? I would call him again! Hopefully it won’t happen anymore. Bad me
Of course that section of the rug looks fabulous!