Carpet

I think the best way to declutter is to get new carpet, it forces you to completely empty a room!

The Home Dept carpet installer come on August 7th, hooray, I am so excited to replace my hole-y and stained carpets. We have started the decluttering and moving things to the basement. We are going away on Sunday and won't be back until late monday so we have to be finished and ready for the installers when we leave on Sunday morning. We have swimming lessons every night this week so lets just say we are BUSY!!

I have taken some before pics which I will post shortly and then the AFTER!!! I plan on returning about 1/2 the stuff to the room, the rest is going to charity or somewhere else in the house. I have to promise myself that it doesn't stay boxed up in the basement, lol!

keeping it up

Flooring update - The laminate is finished in the living room (LOOKS AWESOME, great job hubby!!) and we are setting an install date for the carpet. We will have to take a trip to london to pick out different vinyl for the kitchen because the glueless type will not work with our current floor. I was hoping this would all be in by now but it will be in soon.

I am proud to say I have been keeping up with washing the dishes so I have a clean sink before I go to bed. One night I just had half clean because I didn't get to the pots and pans that I can't throw in the dishwasher, I did not let my self feel guilty about it though!! lol

I've been keeping the laundry mountain smaller than usual but putting it away is a bit of a challenge that I need to work on. My daughter was given 2 boxes of hand me downs and within 24 hours we had cleaned out her dresser and closet of things she no longer wears and put away all of the clothes!! I was so proud and she is enjoying finding "new" clothes and putting outfits together without having to dig through boxes.

This has been quite a challenge. I find that projects are the hardest for me to get to. I work all day and then it's kids all night, whew, it sure is a challenge.

more updates

What have I been up to

• I created a budget, more like a list of how much we spend each month. I have not been good at keeping it up. I have been paying off credit card debts which feels great
• Got a great day timer and have recently started meal planning
• The kids are using a chore tag system which is helping

Best of all I hired a cleaning company to come in every other week to scrub things down. I still have to do dishes, laundry, day-to-day pick up, cooking and all that. It forces me to have everything picked up (at least twice a month, lol) so they can come in and dust, vacuum, scrub & clean. It is the best money I have ever spent. I get to play with my kids so much more and at this age is so imporant especially since they are at day care all day.

time for a 2007 update..

Thanks to a reader who told me I do need an update!!

I have been working away at things, not as fast as I would like but two kids, a husband, a dog and a full-time job keep taking up the majority of my time! lol

I HATE our carpet, it has stains and tears so we went to home depot last weekend and bought

• laminate wood for the livingroom
• vinyl tiles for the kitchen
• grey textured burbur for the recroom

This project of course requires the rooms to be empty, what a great excuse to de-clutter. The living room is already done, (hubby did an awesome job installing it!!) and it looks wonderful. The bookshelf was the biggest job in there. I pledge to get rid of half my books! I work in a library, I can get whatever book I need, anytime!! We need to put on new trim and then put things back in. A lot less things than were there before!!

They are coming tonight to measure and set up the install date for the other two rooms so I MUST have them ready for the set date. I work best on a deadline anyway! I have dealt with a couple of closets, I'm getting there. It will nice to be rewared with new flooring for my efforts!!