We spent the long weekend working on those tedious organizing projects around the house. Stacks of papers to be sorted and filed, piles of junk to be sorted and purged, along with toys everywhere! We have been working on the arrangement of the rooms of our house all year. it seems that as soon as we get down to the last room, the rest of them start to clutter up again. Anytime we leave a pile of clutter to be completed later, that clutter grows and grows and takes over.
We were so close to being done that I didn't want to lose steam. I came up with an idea that I thought was brilliant! We moved all of the piles of junk an clutter from every room of the house, and put them into the corner of the dining room. Considering the dining room only contains the table and chairs, it is easy to know what belongs and what does not belong there. We cleaned up every other room of the house first, before tackling that corner.
I told the family that we could not put up our Christmas tree until that corner was cleaned out....signifying the completion of the household organization.....because the tree goes in that corner. THAT was just the motivation we needed to work together to get the job done!
Well, I admit that we had not organized every part of the house. I was ignoring the cabinet under the kitchen sink. It was filled with cleaning supplies, paint, and other junk. This afternoon, we ended up clearing out that cabinet and purging the junk under the kitchen sink. It was not planned. I was trying to avoid it. But, alas, we had a leak under that kitchen sink, and the end of the faucet broke off and started giving us a shower every time we washed our hands.
So, on our way home from church, we stopped off at the hardware store and picked up a new faucet for the kitchen sink. Surely, replacing the faucet can't be THAT hard, right? (Especially considering we are not very handy folks in the first place).
According to the instructions (and according to The Referee), the hardest part is removing the old faucet....
We were so close to being done that I didn't want to lose steam. I came up with an idea that I thought was brilliant! We moved all of the piles of junk an clutter from every room of the house, and put them into the corner of the dining room. Considering the dining room only contains the table and chairs, it is easy to know what belongs and what does not belong there. We cleaned up every other room of the house first, before tackling that corner.
I told the family that we could not put up our Christmas tree until that corner was cleaned out....signifying the completion of the household organization.....because the tree goes in that corner. THAT was just the motivation we needed to work together to get the job done!
Well, I admit that we had not organized every part of the house. I was ignoring the cabinet under the kitchen sink. It was filled with cleaning supplies, paint, and other junk. This afternoon, we ended up clearing out that cabinet and purging the junk under the kitchen sink. It was not planned. I was trying to avoid it. But, alas, we had a leak under that kitchen sink, and the end of the faucet broke off and started giving us a shower every time we washed our hands.
So, on our way home from church, we stopped off at the hardware store and picked up a new faucet for the kitchen sink. Surely, replacing the faucet can't be THAT hard, right? (Especially considering we are not very handy folks in the first place).
According to the instructions (and according to The Referee), the hardest part is removing the old faucet....
Before he did that part, we purged all of the junk out from under the cabinet.
By the end of this long weekend, we completed the task of organizing the entire house, including under the kitchen sink...
Plus replacing the broken faucet... Plus, replacing the cold water supply hose, which turned out to be the source of the leak.
Plus replacing the broken faucet... Plus, replacing the cold water supply hose, which turned out to be the source of the leak.
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