Neat & Tidy Challenges
01/05/2013 14:50Hey!
Its been so long since I wrote a blog! I've been naughty! Well anyway a year has past and its been full on. I wont bother trying to catch up on my blog so I'll just start a new.
OK... so I found this fantastic person who runs Beautifully Organised and she is running a Neat & Tidy Challenge year..... Now for anyone who doesn't know what it is, (like me), its where each month is dedicated to a space in your house and your given a checklist to declutter and organise. I have been in my house for 12mths and always seem to put things off or find myself busy and always putting organising at the bottom of my priority list which has left my house in kaos as if we had just moved in yesterday lol. These challenges have given me due dates to have it done so I can go in the competition. Who ever has the most inspiring space wins a prize for that month.
So. I started. OMG!!!! I never realised how disgustingly unorganised I was living. When I looked at my before and after photos I was reeling in shock! You know those moments that you think your normal and then all of a sudden..... BAM!!!! You realise your one of those hoarders on TV. Then I had to post my pics on Instagram to be in the running!!! Total humiliation! and there were moments when I was almost chickened out cause I wanted to keep up the social mask/fasarde that we were normal but I really don't like fake so..... against all instincts ..... I have completed and publicly posted 3 challenges and it's been a really amazing journey.
Fist was the Kitchen.
I hadn't done a challenge and didn't really know what I should do so I just had a stab in the dark at it. Now, after doing more challenges I can definitely see that I could have done more with some ideas but it was my first time and I was just happy to find progress happening in my house.
Here is Before............Now don't laugh!!!
So after the clean and tidy I have now made the fridge a freezone (nothing gets magnetted to the front of the fridge anymore), removed a lot of unnecessary hanging items near stove that were just collecting dust, put all tea and coffee items hidden in cupboard on bench & removed all hidden junk above the fridge and placed decorative items.
Just doing this tidy, clean and reorganise was enough of a boost for me to attempt the pantry.
Pantry Before ..... does anyone else have a pantry that looks mess all the time like mine?
Pet peeves about my pantry - 1. KIDS!!!! They are always opening packets and leaving empty containers or plastic on shelves or thrown on floor which just gets kicked underneath. 2. Not nearly enough space (so I thought) 3. I can never ever ever ever ever ever find what I want...... EVER! 4. cause we cant find what we are after it gets put on the shopping list. Then when we unpack the groceries we have like 10 spares!!! Drives me crazy!!!! 5. Plastic bags!!! Love to reuse them but they are just everywhere and there's no space to hang a bag storer.
Pantry After