Originally Posted by MadQuilter
It didn't get messy in a day and it won't get clean in a day.
One of the methods that Helen Butigig from the program "neat" uses is to presort and put like with like. Then go through the batches and sort into one of 3 bins: 1. Do you love it and/or use it? 2. Has it outlived its usefulness or do you have too many? 3. Plain old junk.
Bin 1 you get to keep. Bin 2 gets donated. Bin 3 gets tossed into the trash or recycle bin.
By presorting into like categories, it is much easier to see that you may have 15 of the same thing and really only NEED a fraction of that count. Now, if hubby doesn't want to help, he could keep you company.
I LOVE watching that show. I always presort stuff if I'm doing a thorough cleaning. All dishes to the sink, all papers to the recycling, garbage in the can, personal belongings to the appropriate rooms. THEN I can get to work on sweeping and dusting and rearranging, etc.
HOW's IT GOING there girl?