I have been busy lately, I find that the internet, tv & my cell phone can make me waste my day, so I make sure that I earn my time on here now. I had been a rut ever since I got married, because I am use to cleaning up after myself and not Jonathan and the baby. My house was always a horrendous mess and it is surprising me that it was considering when I lived at home with my parent's, I always kept the place clean, well with the help of everyone else, but however, Jonathan works extremely odd hours from 10:45pm to 7:00am and so through the day I am on my own with house work.
I decided to get on the ball with things in my home, but the hard part of keeping a place organized is you need to have shelves, bins, basket's etc and Jonathan and I are cheap when it comes to buying EVERYTHING even groceries so to buy such thing's like a basket for $10 was out of the question. I followed people on pinterest with dollar store ideas which helped, but still needed something to get me going, because I need a visual of someone else's nice organized and well kept place to get my ideas of how they make use of such thing's. Then I stumbled across a video of probably the most organized, neat, tidy & clean house in the whole world. Her name is Alejandra and she is on youtube and has video's for literally EVERYTHING.
Ever since I have watched a good portion of her video's it has given me that boost of encouragement that I needed to get me going. I am not going to say that my house looks at perfect as her's, but it has helped me improve a lot about my home and as I gain more thing's to use for keeping my home tidy and clean I am sure it will look a lot like her's.
Here's a link to her youtube account: Click
It will make you feel a little over whelmed looking at how she keeps her home the way she does, but it works for her, plus this is how she makes her living. She has video series you can buy that have apparently more in depth tutorial's on how to maintain the home, but I find the ones that are available on youtube have helped me plenty.
So this is what I have been doing these past few 2 months and as much as I do not like making new years resolution's this is mine and I want it to stay this way. I feel less stressed when I don't have to worry about stepping on a toy with a sharp edge or if I am stepping on a cheerio, or before I can brew a cup of coffee I have to clean all the dirty cups from the night before.
It is all about routine and I plan to keep it this way.
