Today I tackle that pain in the butt job no one EVER wants to do. It’s the delayed spring clean. The we’ve been in this house for almost six years who owns all this crap spring clean. I have items stacked in wardrobes in all the bedrooms. The shelves are bursting. The cupboards barely shut. I can barely reach my desk in the office due to boxes of discarded clothing from my sister, mother and I.
The time has come and this holiday break {it’s almost over, how did THAT happen!} is my chance. I’ve committed to decluttering, organising and throwing away all the junk we don’t need. It’s time to simplify our lives, to cut the fat so to speak. And I’m ready. Hubby and his shed and garage, not so ready, but he’ll get on board, I’m sure. I’m wrapping all sorts of things up this holidays. It’s exciting!
Okay so it’s not exciting. It’s necessary and a pain in my butt. But it’s happening. The result will be worth the sweaty grossness that this time of year will make a given. Image rooms and rooms of space, no clutter, no junk. Can you just picture it? It’ll be five years until I have to do it again. That’s the really exciting part. Ha!
So wish me luck. Tell me to get off social media if you see me. Well, after I post a pic or two of my breakfast, you know how it is. Haha. Expect there to be some whinging. Are you cleaning out anything this year? This week even? Share the pain with me would you. We can be in this together.
Hi! I’m Melissa Walker Horn. Around here, they call me Suger. I’m the Chief Blogger and doer of all the things here at Suger Coat It. Blogging since 1901; I love a casual ootd, taking photos, and writing about things that irk or inspire me. I love wine and cheese, long days at the beach and spending time with my family. I make stuff for the internet over at Chalkboard Digital. You know, living the sweet life.
We are only able to do the ‘pre-or-post moving house’ springclean’. Which has been happening every six months lately. I’m actually not sure how to take care of a house for longer than a year- I’m coming to the realisation that we might actually have to clean our oven and filters, even though we aren’t packing up the house! Shocking. Happy cleaning.
Haha. Thanks Amy! And yes, what a weird situation that is. But a new fresh start every 6 months or so has to be exciting. We did it for years, the whole moving a lot thing. It was great fun and you don’t seem to accumulate TOO much extra crap, there’s no time!
I’ve decluttered a lot in the past few months, yet it’s all back! How?! Surely it doesn’t grow legs from lifeline/the dump & crawl back….
Haha. Mental picture = awesome! Sorry to hear its back. I hate that.
I’ve been cleaning each room steadily for about 4 months. Every couple of weekends I go into a room and just pull EVERYTHING out of the cupboards, get rid of what I don’t want or need anymore and the put the stuff away that I do. There wasn’t much that I’ve kept and I’m proud to say that As of yesterday, I’m done!!! I’ve been doing it so when we move house we don’t have to get rid of stuff we don’t want all at once and waste valuable moving time. I’m big on organisation, can you tell?
Ooooo nice one Em! Way to show us how it’s done and SUCH a great idea to do it before a move.
I will in a couple of months.
Good luck!!
Good luck! I started yesterday — with my closet! I now have three bags of clothes to give away to charity and two to sell on eBay! I had to be brutal and cull stuff I just wasn’t going to wear.
Thanks! To you too. What a mammoth effort so far. To be honest, I was looking into my robe the other day and thought, I could throw almost every piece of clothing in there away and not miss it. It needs an overhaul I think. Another one. Haha.
Good luck babe. We’ve been clearing out and filling since Boxing Day. I’ve even culled small household applucanxes that haven’t been used in the last six months. A tip run is also eminent. I’ve got more organisation to do as Cohen starts prep in a few weeks and trying to get new systems and routines in place. It’s not fun but it’s got to be done. I’ll be back to it later today. X
OMG it was the worst. Great feeling at the end, but the heat and the sheer size of it. Gah. Terrible. I hear you about the organisation thing, I just feel like our house has got away from us IYKWIM? Good luck to you!
Oooo, I so love a spring clean at any time of the year. Actually I just signed up for Apartment Therapy’s (I am hooked on that website), ‘The January Cure’. I get some of my best organising and styling ideas from Apartment Therapy and they run this every year. They send you a email each day of January from the 2nd to the 30th that promises to guide you through making your home fresh, clean and organised for the rest of the year. I hate committing to things that I won’t follow through on but I am curious to have a go at this and see if it delivers. I still have a hall cupboard to two that could use a good shake up and I bought some nice storage boxes from IKEA and then forgot what my intentions for them were. So, being presented with day to day assignments for a month, especially when I love to see the place super clean and organised, may just be my cup of tea. There’s even a ‘built in’ celebration at the end of The Cure. Can’t wait!
Oooooo!! Sounds interesting. Very interesting. Love the idea of a daily task. Very cool.