Have you ever walked into someone’s house and immediately have to urge your judgmental meter to give it a rest as you see the stocked up piles of laundry, the sink-full of dishes, pet fur forming entirely new pets in the corners of rooms and if you need to use the bathroom, the minute you walk into it you want to run out screaming? That’s my house!
I have good intentions–really, I do! I intend to do a lot of things around the house and I make plans to tackle a boat load of housework every week. It usually just doesn’t end up getting done. When you work from home, you are never necessarily away from work and when I find myself with an hour or two to spare, my workaholic meter goes off and I end up answering emails and setting up future blog posts instead of running the vacuum cleaner or sweeping up the kitchen. But as “lived in” as my house gets, the one room that consistently gets neglected is the bathroom.
Ah yes, the bathroom. I’ll admit it–my bathroom borders on absolutely disgusting. My partner is a musician and music producer who frequently has other musicians over to our house to record and I’m beginning to think that when it comes to men, the general consensus is that they lack the skills in order to aim properly and after a few days of not mopping the bathroom floor, we have a few messes to tackle. My partner also shaves his head because receding hairlines aren’t sexy and instead of looking like he is going bald–which he is–he will shave his head in the middle of the bathroom, regardless of the amount of times I have told him that if he did it in the dry bathtub, cleanup would be so much easier. But apparently that doesn’t work because every time I hear the razor start buzzing upstairs, I know that as well-intentioned as he is when he tries to clean all of the hair up off the floor, there will still be a mess to tackle.
I have been freaking out over the cluttered and not-so-deep-down-clean of my house for a few weeks now and today I tackled the bathroom. The neglected, disgusting bathroom that is always the last room to be cleaned if I find myself on a cleaning spree. Today, it was the first order of business and I am pretty psyched over how great it looks now.
Taking a cue from 5 Minutes for Mom’s Tackle It Tuesday, I tackled the crap out of the bathroom and yes, I know it’s Saturday, but the sentiment of enjoying a space that is finally clean–Finally! is pretty universal.
I didn’t take before pictures of my bathroom because that could get pretty embarrassing because I am not happy about how gross I my bathroom had become and I don’t really need any more shame from it. So behold, the after pictures!
The bathroom sink and mirror/medicine cabinet. I also found some awesome decorative soap under the sink that I had forgotten about and luckily found in the organization process.
Speaking of under the sink, it used to be complete chaos! Stuff was just shoved under there without any real order, so that had to be dealt with, too!
Now my partner’s heavy duty razor, my curling brush, cleaning supplies, Q-tips, a backup shower curtain and unused hair products are all stacked under the sink nice and orderly.
The inside of the medicine cabinet, as well as some miscellaneous items like more of my hair proucts and alcohol on top. Yes, I only have three nail polishes.
If you live in an apartment like I do, or just have a very small bathroom with no real place to store your bath and body products, I could not recommend a little corner shelving unit like this one enough. It’s amazing and it effortlessly holds an abundance of products my partner and I are convinced we need.
An awesome hanging frog I found while going through some clutter in the hall closet. I think he looks great hanging right above the toilet.
Obviously, the bathroom is decked out in a frog theme. Here’s our shower curtain, which I think is the cutest thing of all time.
Not only is the shower curtain super cute, but it is hung with cute frog and lily pad rings.
And there you have it–my super clean bathroom! And now I have these pictures as proof of how clean the bathroom can be!
It may come as a shock to most of you out there, but I do not have a washer in my apartment; and yes, I live in an apartment. I do not own my own home, I do not live in a condominium, townhouse, or any of the other cutesy names people give to apartments to make them seem not so apartment-like. It’s just a quaint, two-bedroom place that suits me and my partner pretty well for the time being. We used to have access to a washer, which was located in the basement and no, it wasn’t too scary of a place to venture into. However, it broke more than a year ago and the landlord has adapted this ‘Oh, you need access to a washer? People still use those things?’ type of mentality. Now, factor this into the fact that my partner is a full-time musician who is always gone and I’m a full-time blogger, freelance writer and complete and utter social media addict and you’ll get a good grasp on how often laundry gets done around here. If your head is still in the clouds, I’ll spell it out for you: not very often at all.
I had no intention of actually going through the two laundry baskets that were sitting in the bedroom waiting to be put away today. No intention at all. We recently tried to clean our bedroom once and for all, since it has become more of a dumping ground than anything else that we trudge through every night to get to our bed. This did not work, since the partner’s version of cleaning is more like taking every article of dirty clothing in the house and shoving it in both of our closets and to put away those aforementioned two laundry baskets of clothes, I would need to go through the closets resulting in even more a mess and even more dirty laundry to tend to. However, I got a very late start this morning. The alarm clock went off and I immediately assumed the position of ‘I am not getting out of this bed regardless of how much stuff I need to get done today or how much you pay me.’ So after waking up, getting the coffee, putting a blog post up and chatting with folks on Twitter and Facebook, I ventured up to the bathroom to shower and then I couldn’t find any clothes. No clean clothes anywhere. Except for the clothes that were sitting in the laundry baskets, and so, I was forced to take them all out, fold them all into piles on the bed, and lastly, start cleaning out the closets. Notice I said start cleaning out the closets. I cannot predict when the bedroom will be a room we can walk through effortlessly without tripping over a pile of clothes and falling into another pile.
As you can tell by the look on my face, it was not a happy Friday thus far, but I am so, so relieved that some of the insane work it is going to take to get that bedroom whipped into shape is done and because there are still clothes on the bed waiting to be put away, I’m suspecting more of that work will be completed later today.
You can always count on Glade for great scents for your home that will last a good, long time and are also extremely affordable. Take away those really annoying commercials with the woman who is always trying to impress her friends and family with something or another, whether it be that she was home cleaning all day or she’s cooking something that smells delicious and it turns out she’s really just using Glade candles, and they’re practically golden.
Almost two years ago I moved from a city that is now very widely known, if you watch The Office that is, to a very small borough of about 600 people so close to miles of farms you can smell it when you walk outside at night and notice the burning garbage. Adjusting to a farm town has been interesting, to say the least. I have seen many unpleasant things that you just don’t see in a city, like what I woke up to find hanging outside my kitchen window a few months ago.
Yep, that’s a bat and he was hanging out there for the entire day.
I recently had the opportunity to try out the Swiffer WetJet in my home, thanks to the awesome folks over at MyBlogSpark, and see how it stands up against the standard, back-breaking, pain in the butt mop and bucket.
My findings were varied, mostly pros and I found a terrific new kitchen cleanup companion in the Swiffer WetJet. Check out our video below to see how the Swiffer WetJet works and what we think of it:
If there is one thing that I am absolutely crazy about, it’s coffee. This love of mine started at a very young age and has fueled two prior full-time jobs of mine in cafes as a barista and the greatest caffeine tolerance I’ve come to know. I love coffee in all of it’s precious forms, flavors, consistencies and blends and am always interested in new flavors and concoctions that can be made from the comfort of my own kitchen. When a friend of mine hooked me up with Senseo, I was ecstatic, to say the very least.
Senseo is a sub-company of Sara Lee and makes an excellent coffee pod system that literally transformed the way I have my coffee every day.
The Senseo system makes absolutely delicious (and delightfully strong) single serving amounts of coffee with their innovative system that is so easy to use that once I took it out of its box, I was using it within minutes. While brewing my first cup of coffee, I realized that the Senseo actually made foam each and every single time automatically, which makes the coffee that you are brewing at home stand out even more so than a regular cup of coffee you would purchase at any coffee shop.
The coffee that the Senseo produces is also quite different than your average cup of regular coffee. The Senseo cup seemed to go down a lot of smoother than normal coffee does, even my boyfriend, who usually can’t stand coffee and its gritty behavior going down, will drink it if it is made with this machine!
One of the best things about the Senseo that I was also surprised to find is that the entire thing is set up so that it is an absolute dream to clean. There are no small crevices that you simply can’t get your hands into to clean, the back of the system comes right off so you can fill it up with water and sits right back onto the machine with ease. Best of all, the system uses individual coffee pods that the water goes through so they have completely eliminated the horror of coffee grounds winding up in your mug and also the grounds that tend to go everywhere during the cleaning process. Within just a short amount of time using the Senseo, I gave my fully-functional, almost brand new typical coffee pot to a friend of mine because I hadn’t used it once since using this this machine.
There are a variety of different coffees and even teas that are made specifically for the Senseo coffee pod system, so each and every coffee and/or tea drinker out there will benefit from this machine. You can order the Senseo coffee pod system as well as coffee and tea pods at their official online store, Target, Wal-Mart, or even Amazon.
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You can always count on Glade for great scents for your home that will last a good, long time and are also extremely affordable. Take away those really annoying commercials with the woman who is always trying to impress her friends and family with something or another, whether it be that she was home cleaning all day or she’s cooking something that smells delicious and it turns out she’s really just using Glade candles, and they’re practically golden.
If there is one thing that I am absolutely crazy about, it’s coffee. This love of mine started at a very young age and has fueled two prior full-time jobs of mine in cafes as a barista and the greatest caffeine tolerance I’ve come to know. I love coffee in all of it’s precious forms, flavors, consistencies and blends and am always interested in new flavors and concoctions that can be made from the comfort of my own kitchen. When 
