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Last night I was in my kitchen with my shoes sticking to the floor in multiple spots.  The kids are still home on summer break, so who knows what we have going on with the floor!  It dawned on me how often we waste time cleaning way more than needed, wasting time and energy.  Most of my downstairs floor is wood, so once I got the mop out I could have easily spent a lot of time mopping almost half of the house.  But why should I?  There really wasn’t a problem with the rest of the floor, it was really just concentrated around the sink and refrigerator.  So, cleaning just those spots was good enough as an in-between cleaning until I really do need to mop the whole floor.  The kids are still home and the swimming pool is still up in the yard, so it won’t be long before a big cleaning, but until then…

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It’s important to organize your home, not only to feel good it in but also to help keep your family safe!  Some of the smallest tasks we do can keep up on maintenance in our homes.  Take one example of a task we do all the time-the bigger your family the more we do it:  yes, LAUNDRY! 

I was putting laundry in the dryer the other day when I cleaned out the dryer vent.  Something that is very important to do regularly, but then you have the lint to get rid of which can create extra steps to the garbage can.  You can organized yourself easily for this step by placing any type of small container on the dryer if you don’t have room for a garbage can-I know I don’t.  It can be a tiny garbage can, a butter container, even a little box.  Anything that can hold the lint from a few dryer cycles meaning less trips to the garbage can.

I found a few statistics on the web from January 2007 to drive the point home:

• Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths and 400 injuries annually.
• 80% of clothes dryer fires in structures occur in residential buildings.
• “Failure to clean” is the leading factor contributing to clothes dryer fires in residential buildings

So, you can take small, easy steps to organize your home and help keep your family safe!

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Sometimes the simplest changes can make the biggest difference, especially when it comes to keeping the house clean.  I was finding that every day I felt the need to wipe down my bathroom counter after bits of make-up would find it’s way to the countertop.  But, I had to go out to the hallway where my cleaning supplies were above the washer and dryer, making clean up inconvenient. 

Quick fix-I brought an extra bottle of cleaner and a roll of paper towels and stashed them under the bathroom sink.  Now whenever I need to, I can quickly clean with a lot less time and effort!

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Take a little bit of time every week, even just 15 minutes, to tidy up your office so you get off to a  fresh start on Monday.  Since I have a home office, I find that Sunday evenings work really well for me.  If you are working in a business office, consider taking the last 15 minutes of your day on Friday to straighten up.  Now this isn’t about a big ‘clear the clutter and reorganize session,’ this is just a little cleaning tune-up that doesn’t require a lot of brain power. 

First critical step:  Put on some good music.

Other quick and easy tasks: 

• Dust
• Empty garbage & recycle
• Water plants
• Vacuum
• Wipe down computer screen
• Clean keyboard
• Shred papers
• Lay out projects to work on during the week
• Delete e-mails
• Look over schedule for the week

Final critical step:  Treat yourself to some chocolate-never hurts!

Take a little time each week to clean up  a bit and feel in control when Monday rolls around!

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