Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Master Closet

This will be my last week in this series.... at least for a while. School's out at the end of this week and I think that just getting the toys picked up each night before bed will be enough of a challenge for the summer. I'm amazed at the things I've gotten cleaned in the last 2 1/2 months.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}


Last week I {kinda} focused on the closet. I the two messiest shelves cleaned off. Then I got busy with other things and forgot to clean the rest of the week.

Monday - Cleaned on my jewelry shelf.  - 40 minutes. 

Tuesday -Yard Day 


Wednesday - Cleaned off another shelf - 20 minutes. 

Thursday - forgot

Friday - forgot




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Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Master Bedroom

Time to get Motivated!! Did you clean your Bedroom?  I'd love for you to follow along with me as we get our houses cleaned 10 minutes at a time.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}

My bedroom seems to collect stuff that never gets put away.  If something doesn't have a place to be put, it ends up in our room. I cleaned it out really well last fall, so I just need to keep on top of it. After a couple days I realized that the bedroom really didn't need much cleaning. So I started on our closet - it definitely needs some work. I'm taking it a section at a time and will continue working on it next week.


Monday - Pick up and put away random stuff - 12 minutes. 

Tuesday -Dusted and took donation pile out to the truck - 7 minutes. 


Wednesday - 0 minutes. 

Thursday - Started Cleaning up the Closet - 9 minutes. I started by organizing my t-shirt shelf, then I took down all my winter sweaters and boxed them up until next year.

Friday - Closet - 14 minutes. I organized my husbands shoes. Most women have more shoes than their husbands. Not me!  I bet my husband has at least 3 times as many as I do. Part of the problem is that he has work shoes and regular shoes. Then I took down all of his winter clothing to store.



Other ideas:
Vacuum under bed
Wash Window
Clean Blind



 Next weeks challenge : Continue with the Master Closet

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Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Car

Time to get Motivated!! Did you clean out your car last week? I'd love for you to follow along with me as we get our houses {or cars} cleaned 10 minutes at a time.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}

My vehicle has been bugging me for some time. It's needed a good vacuum and a bath for a while now.

Monday - Vacuum out the Tahoe - 25 minutes.  I know...I know... This took way longer than 10 minutes. What can I say, I have a big vehicle and it was dirty.

Tuesday -Washed Windows - 5 minutes. I only did the inside of the windows, since I'll be washing the outside later in the week.


Wednesday - Clean out the center console - 11 minutes. I threw away unneeded items and reorganized it. I also stuck a package of graham crackers in there for the kiddos when they need a treat.

Thursday -Wipe down everything with a protectant wipe - 3 minutes.

Friday -Wash the outside of the car. I even cleaned the wheels and tires! My husband will be so proud. This took a while, I didn't time it since I knew it would take longer than 10 minutes. I guess I could have gone to the car wash, that would have been faster.



Other ideas of things to clean in the car:
 Put together an emergency kit to keep in the car.



 Next weeks challenge : Master Bedroom

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Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Kitchen and How to Clean Your Oven Glass.

Time to get Motivated!! What did you get cleaned in your kitchen last week? I'd love for you to follow along with me as we get our houses cleaned a 10 minutes at a time.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}


This week I focused on the kitchen again. I haven't gone through the whole house yet, but the kitchen is a high-traffic area.

Monday - Quick wipe down of things I cleaned last time I did the kitchen - 8 minutes. I began by putting away randoms. Then I quickly washed off the stove hood, stove, dishwasher, and fridge. Since I'd given them a good scrubbing 6 weeks ago, it was done in no time. Then I moved a few items off the counter and washed it good. I also cleaned off my spice rack.

Tuesday - Forgot.


Wednesday - Cleaned out my corner cabinet - 13 minutes. I have a cabinet on my counter, where I store my toaster, can opener, blender, waffle iron and other items. I took everything out and cleaned it good. I also wiped down all the small appliances while I was at it.


Thursday - Cleaned out the drawer under the oven - 5 minutes. Basically I just wiped out all the crumbs that had fallen in there. I also turned on the automatic oven cleaner.


Friday - Wiped out the interior of the oven - 9 minutes. While the automatic oven cleaner does a pretty good job, it does leave a bit of residue. It was pretty easy to wipe off once the oven was cool.

I also did an extra job this week. After the oven was all clean, I noticed that the glass on the oven door had quite a few spots still. I tried Borax first - fail! I thought for sure it would work, given my recent successes with it. So next I tried a baking soda and water paste. It took a little elbow grease, but it worked. Check out my results below.

Other ideas of things to clean in the kitchen:
Clean outside of cabinets
Clean and organize inside of cabinets
Clean top of fridge
Clean inside of fridge
Clean baseboards
Clean and reorganize pantry
Clean out under stove
Clean out under fridge


 Next weeks challenge : Clean out the car.

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Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Laundry Room

Time to get Motivated!! What have you been cleaning this week? Have you organized anything lately? I'd love to know - leave a comment.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}


This week I focused on the Laundry Room. This is the smallest room in my house by far. So luckily it was fairly easy to get cleaned up.


Monday - I totally spaced it and forgot!


Tuesday - Cleaned off the washer and dryer - 8 minutes. I started by putting away random items that had gathered on top of the dryer. Then I washed off the top of the washer and dryer. Then I washed under the lid of the washer. I also took out the trash.


Wednesday - Sweep, mop, and caulk baseboards - 11 minutes. If I could sweep and mop the other rooms in the house as quickly as I did this one, then I might do it more often.


Thursday - Paint baseboards. This is probably not something most of you need to do. Our baseboards were painted. When we nailed them to the wall we filled the holes, but never touched up. Over time the filler discolored and looked yucky. Not anymore. I should have done this a long time ago.


Friday - Clean spinner inside washer. - 8 minutes. Take a look at what my washer spinner looked like before and what it looks like now. What did I use to clean it? Borax and water paste and an old toothbrush! Go here to see how else I've used Borax.

Other ideas:
Wash cabinets
Organize inside of cabinets
Iron
Paint



Next week I'll be working on the kitchen again.

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Clean Your House in 10 Minutes a Day - Office Area

It's Monday. Time to get motivated. Did you all get any cleaning done? I'd love to hear about it. Leave a note in the comments. I'd love for us to all motivate each other.

For those of you new to this series, each week I focus on an area in my house. I spend 10 minutes each day and clean or organize something in that room. On Monday, I share what I cleaned and how long it ended up taking me. It's been  helping me to stay on top of it. And I hope it's helpful for you as well. {The 10 minutes a day does not include bathroom cleaning, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming or doing dishes. With the exception of doing dishes, those things are done on Saturday and the kids help.}

I feel like I should change the title of the post this week. I did not follow my own rules. First of all the area I decided to clean needed a LOT of work, so I ended up spending WAY more than 10 minutes. And secondly, I had two of my sisters and their kids over to visit for spring break, so I did it all at the beginning of the week instead of spreading it out over the whole week.

I decided to clean out our office area of our kitchen. This has been bugging me for over a month, but I never made the time to get it all cleaned up. Mostly this was all just organizing. I did sweep out the floor under the desk, but that was about all I cleaned.

This is the cabinet is kind of a catch all.  I went through all my recipes. Before there was such a thing as Pinterest, I would print out any recipe I thought looked good. I probably have only tried about 5% of them. I went through them all and threw away lots that I knew I would never try, and kept the ones that still looked good. Other than that I just reorganized it all and threw away random things that were no longer needed. This took me about an hour to organize and another hour to go through the recipes. Way too much time! But next time, I'll be able to straighten it up quickly.

This is where everything gets thrown. School papers, mail, kids broken toys, phones etc. This took me about 25 minutes to clean up. Mostly it was just putting things where they belong.

This is our junk drawer. I throw coupons in there and never look at them again. A lot of them are for fast food - and we don't eat fast food very often. I think I'll just save the Joann's ones from now on, because they are the only ones that I actually use. This drawer took only 13 minutes.

And last but not least my mess underneath the desk.
I love this space, it's kind of hidden, but easily accessible. Unless you let stuff pile up like I had. I used to have a little curtain that hide it all, but the kids broke the tension rod and I didn't like the fabric anyway. Maybe that should be my next project - make a new curtain to hide this stuff a little better. This took 23 minutes to straighten up. 

Next week I'm going to work on the Laundry Room. It's not as messy, so it should be easier to keep it to 10 minutes a day.


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