Cynthia Ewer's Blog, page 33
January 28, 2019
Today's Challenge: Identify Activity Centers
What's the state of your dining room?
While some households boast a separate room used only for formal meals, for most of us, the reality is a lot more complicated.
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll consider the activities that take place in the dining room or dining area.
Identifying the room's activity centers is the first step toward an organized dining space! Read More >>
January 27, 2019
Today's Challenge: It's Dining Room Week
It's a new week in the New Year Cleaning Challenge: we're diving into dining areas with Dining Room Week.
The dining room table is a busy center of family life. It's where the family eats--and does a whole lot more. This week, we'll declutter, deep-clean and organize the dining room or dining area, and tackle any associated activity centers.
Ready? Time to bring order to the dining room in the New Year Cleaning Challenge! Read More >>...
January 26, 2019
Today's Challenge: Kitchen Week Wrap-Up
This week, we've kicked it in the kitchen, cleaning and organizing everything from the counters to the pantry. Time for a weekend wrap-up!
Today, take the last steps to clean, declutter and organize kitchen and food storage areas.
Next week, we dive into the dining room in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, so clear the decks in the kitchen today! Read More >>
January 25, 2019
Today's Challenge: Boost Your Pantry Power
What's the difference between an organized dinner hour and chaos in the kitchen? A well-stocked pantry!
A pantry is not a place, it's an attitude--and you have one if you have stockpiled food, health and beauty aids and paper goods in your home.
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll boost our pantry power with tips for starting, growing and organizing the pantry.
Today's Assignment:Brush Up Pantry Power
Smart cooks know that a well-managed p...
January 24, 2019
Challenge Day 26: Clean Out the Freezer
It's dark, it's cold, it's full of food: your freezer. Whether your household features only a refrigerator-top unit, or boasts a free-standing freezer, today's the day to tackle freezer areas.
Today, we'll declutter, clean and organize freezer areas. Keeping tabs on frozen assets speeds meal preparation ad cuts food waste. Read More >>
Printables:
food_inventory_freezer.pdf
Today's Challenge: Clean Out the Freezer
It's dark, it's cold, it's full of food: your freezer. Whether your household features only a refrigerator-top unit, or boasts a free-standing freezer, today's the day to tackle freezer areas.
Today, we'll declutter, clean and organize freezer areas. Keeping tabs on frozen assets speeds meal preparation ad cuts food waste. Read More >>
Printables: food_inventory_freezer.pdf
January 23, 2019
Today's Challenge: Clean Out the Refrigerator!
Midway into January, it's easy to spot our New Year's resolutions going adrift. No matter how earnestly we make them, it's hard for resolutions to survive the rapids of daily life.
Time, money and energy seem in short supply in early January, so how to keep the progress going toward that new and more organized life?
Today, take 20 minutes to recharge most New Year's Resolutions: clean out the refrigerator. Read More >>
January 22, 2019
Challenge Day 24: Clear Kitchen Countertops
The old real estate maxim works for kitchens, too: "location, location, location!" What's taken up residence on your kitchen counters?
In the kitchen, countertop space represents the room's most prestigious--and hardest-working--real estate address. Is your cooking space clean and lean--or crammed and cluttered?
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll clear kitchen countertops, applying a simple A-B-C method to make zoning decisions for applia...
Today's Challenge: Clear Kitchen Countertops
What's taken up residence on your kitchen counters?
The old real estate maxim works for kitchens, too: "location, location, location!" In the kitchen, countertop space represents the room's most prestigious--and hardest-working--real estate address. Is your cooking space clean and lean--or crammed and cluttered?
Today in the New Year Cleaning Challenge, we'll clear kitchen countertops, applying a simple A-B-C method to make zoning decisions for applia...
January 21, 2019
Today's Challenge: Cut Clutter in the Kitchen
When we dream of an ideal kitchen, the room we visualize is usually spare, clean and serene.
But when we open our eyes to reality, we're faced with a basic truth: the kitchen has an amazing ability to attract clutter.
Even after out-of-place items are rounded up and given new homes, we remain faced with hard-core kitchen clutter. Read More >>
