Tackle It Tuesday - Catch Up Edition

So today, I have a long list of things to get done, so that's how it's going to happen today. You get my list. I get to check it off.

• Dishes. (Two dishwasher loads done.)
• Clear off the kitchen counters. (Done.)
• Clear off the stove top. (Done.)
• Clean the kitchen sink. (Done.)
• Take trash out.
• Take recycling out.
• Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.

• Move the bunkboard out to the shed.
• Clear off the dining room table. (Done.)
• Clear off the dining room chairs. (Done.)
• Sweep and mop the dining room floor.
• Take trash out.
• Feed and water the dogs. (Done.)

• Clear off the sectional. (Done.)
• Tidy up the TV stand. (Done.)
• Tidy the toy shelf. (Done.)
• Tidy the entry. (Done.)
• Tidy my table. (Done.)
• Pick up the living room floor. (Done.)
• Take trash out.
• Vacuum the living room floor.

• Clear off the armoire. (Done.)
• Clear off Hubby's desk. (Done.)
• Pick up corner near Hubby's desk. (It's a catch-all area.) (Done.)
• Clear off cedar chest. (Done.)
• Straighten chair area in den. (Done.)
• Pick up floor in den. (Done.)
• Take trash out.
• Vacuum the den floor.

• Pick up the floor in the hallway. (Done.)
• Vacuum the hallway floor.

• Pick up the little kids' bedroom floor.
• Put away the little kids' clothes.
• Put away the little kids' toys.
• Put away the little kids' books.
• Take trash out.
• Vacuum the little kids' bedroom floor.

• Pick up the older boys' bedroom floor.
• Put away the older boys' clothes.
• Put away the older boys' toys.
• Put away the older boys' books.
• Take trash out.
• Vacuum the older boys' bedroom floor.

• Fold laundry and put away. (Running tally of loads for the day: 0)
• Wash and dry laundry. (Running tally of loads for the day: 0)
• Clean out the bathtub.
• Clean the bathtub.
• Clear off the vanity.
• Clean the vanity.
• Clean the mirrors.
• Clean the toilet.
• Sweep and mop floor.
• Take trash out.

That is the total lump sum of everything that I'd like to get done today. It won't all get done. But I like having a list to work off of. And there are many more tasks that I could include on there. But I'm not going to. This is just an idea of what I would like to get done today. No time like the present to get started! You can click on the banner image at the top of this post to head on over to 5 minutes for mom to see what other bloggers are tackling today as well.

Clean House Challenge - Week 17

Admittedly, it has been a fair amount of time since I have done a Clean Home Challenge week, but there is no time like the present to get it started. This week's challenge is to sort through and purge bed linens. However, I don't feel that we need to do that. So instead of purging bed linens, it is my goal this week to wash them, dry them and get them folded nice and neat so that they can be put away.

If I find, while doing this, that we have more than what we need or that there are some that are just worn or whatever and should be purged, then I will absolutely do so! No before pic because I lost my camera and right now, all of our sheets are folded and put away in the cedar chest (we have a practical storage issue in our home - no linen closet - so we use the storage we have, in our case, a cedar chest)

I will let you know next week what I have gotten rid of in the bed linens department if purging does happen.

In the meantime, head on over to Katie's blog to see the rest of the challenges. You can also click here to see the challenges I have participated in. Wow. I thought that I had done more than that, but I guess not. Oh well, there will be more. Lots more!