Organization Plan

Talked to Josh today about how much I hate how dirty and unorganized our house is so I'm coming up with a plan to get it clean and organized over the next 6 months to a year. I figure even if we move in the meantime it'll make me feel better to do something to try and make it a little more livable. I will have weekly and monthly and long term goals. The biggest issue is not having enough space or places to put things. We have very little extra money to spend on shelves or organizing stuff for the house so I am going to very slowly month by month get stuff for the house...maybe just one thing per month to help give things a place to go. In addition each week I will focus on one area and get rid of anything we really don't need or use and find a place to put the rest. Goals for this week include:

1. Rent a pressure washer and clean the outside of our house.

2. Clean all waste baskets in the house with soap and a hose. Some of them are really nasty and smell very gross.

3. Not sure about this just yet but thinking about shopping end of season garden sales for garden tools and plants and flowers and planting some things in the yard. Everything is super cheap right now.

4. Clean out our dryer vent...it's been making a weird noise and I'm wondering if I clean the vent if it might help.

5. Ongoing for the month will be to go through all our stuff that needs to be in storage (memorabilia, old outgrown baby things, holiday stuff, etc...) and throw away or donate anything I possibly can to make some room in this house. Anything we are going to keep I will organize into categories and place in plastic bins for Josh to haul upstairs to the attic for right now.

I plan on spending one hour a day cleaning the house and at least 15 minutes a day organizing things and making trash or donate boxes. Hopefully in another 6 months or a year we will be organized. Hopefully we will also be looking for a better place to live by then and being organized will just making packing for the move that much easier.