Just in time.....

A friend posted this on one of my chat lists and it's perfect timing.

40 Bags in 40 Days

Bag Count: 27

So, here's the start of my list of areas to cover:

1. Main floor bathroom
2. Kitchen Pantry
3. Kitchen Junk drawer
4. China Hutch
5. Music Room
6. Coat Closet
7. Kid's Bathroom (heaven help me!) It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and the older kids helped a bit which made it easier.
8. Master Closet
9. Jewelry Box (I bought a new one that's larger and I just need to move into it). Turns out the new jewelry box doesn't hold as much as it looks like it would, so I still have at least 2, but I've gone through my jewlry, so that counts!
10. Dresser
11-12 Alana's Room (2 days, or one full day)
13-14. Shannon's Room (again, 2 partial or one full day)
15-16. Tristan's Room (yet once more, 2 partial or one full day)
17. Master Bathroom, particularly the catch-all ledge
18. Picnic Closet
19. Toy Closet
20. Store Room--Food area
21. Store Room--The rest of it
22-23-24? My craft room. That's got to be ready for a potential long-term house guest come June and it needs a LOT of cleaning out.
25. White computer cupboard
26. DVD/Book/Computer Game shelves
27. Kids' Art Shelf and Game cubbies Yippee! Lots of things found their righful home, and lots of stuff tossed or recycled. This wasn't on the "list" for today, but Bruce got started on it, and once he does that, there's no holding back. Of course, I still wonder why there was a sweatshirt shoved in next to the coloring books, or why the dress-up clothes wound up crammed inside the Little People House, but whatever.
28. Laundry Room
29-31 Garage (This one is Bruce's problem)
32-33 Shed (Again, mostly on Bruce)
34. Computer Files....technically not something that will result in actual "bags" of "trash," but there will be lots of things to be sorted, organized, and ultimately recycled. I need to move files, especially photos and scrapbooking projects on to my external hard drive, but I'm not sure how to do it in a way that my program will be able to find them again. Cleaned up some of my "Favorites" today. 3/26 Moved my photos and scrapbook projects to my external and then deleted from my hard drive. My computer is MUCH happier!
34. Master Bedroom Bookshelves

Update 3/22: Today I cleaned out the "lost sock basket" that was about 1/2 full of mismatched, lonely socks. Some of them found their life partners again and will happily join their sock friends in the sock drawers. Others found their mates and will be going off to make new friends in someone else's sock drawer. And, yes, I kept some because I haven't finished all the laundry, nor have I even begun to see what's waiting under the kids' beds. But a pile of them went out to the trash. Of course, by throwing them away, I've now just about guaranteed that I'll find some mates this week or next, but really, who cares? It's a pair of socks. We have plenty of socks, and if we didn't, well, we'd be able to buy more, thankfully.

Update 3/29: Over the weekend, while I was at the Scrapbook Expo, Bruce and the girls got started on their rooms. There's lots of work left to do, but the girls did a great job and I'm so proud of them for taking the reigns