Yay!
Yesterday, I cleaned out our garage. HOLY COW. I was able to burn an insane amount of wood Grant was "saving". All the leftover like 5 inch pieces and little chunks from our ceiling. 3 bonfires FULL. I couldn't believe it was all hiding in there behind his car. I also found a bunch of garbage and shoes and broken junk I was able to get rid of. Our garage is so big now!! It's embarassing, but I didn't even know we had a built in dog kennel in our garage because there was so much stuff piled up around it. I don't think I would ever lock our dogs in there but nice to know we have one. I also put up a shelf and lined up all the jugs of oil/gas/paint/whatnot. I'm really proud of this garage cleaning accomplishment, it took me the whole afternoon. I was able to find my "weiner flipper" (a tool for roasting marshmallows and hot dogs over the fire. Woohoo! Successful day :) There is still a huge pile of cardboard I need to break down and get to the community recycling center. I can do that today.
I LOVE HAVING THE TIME TO DO THESE THINGS!!!!!
Today, I set up a drying rack outdoors. ooOOOOoo I know, small step for most people. Big step for me. Waiting for my first load of laundry to finish washing that will be hung outdoors to be dried outside. Last week I made all homemade laundry and dishwasher detergent. The laundry detergent is working well and makes our whole upstairs smell fantastic. I'm not sold on the dishwasher soap quite yet. I need to get better at rinsing, or the dogs need to get better at licking. One or the other.
That is all.
I feel terrible, but I just remembered your blog and decided to come over here for some cleaning tips. I don't know when I'll have time to do it, but I want to get some purging action going on at our house, too! I think it's neat that you guys have a built-in dog kennel in the garage! Trying to picture what it would look like... :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I hope you keep sharing these tips! Even if I never have the time to do them all, they motivate me to start lining up purging projects for myself. Maybe I'll get to them SOMEDAY. :)