by Mandi on August 27, 2012
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Today’s a bonus day for the Simplify for Fall Challenge — since I originally left these rooms off my list! — and we’re tackling the family room and entryway!
Our family room is fairly small and doesn’t have a lot of storage, so it’s an easy room for me to clean and organize — although the “media” cabinet is pretty messy at the moment, as you’ll see.
The coat closet, on the other hand, becomes a catch-all for coats, shoes, bags, seasonal items, etc., and although it’s pretty big, it’s fairly skinny, so it can be frustrating to get to the stuff in the back if it’s overly full.
Coat Closet
I actually got a jump start on this and cleaned out my coat closet yesterday. This is what it looked like to start:
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by Mandi on August 25, 2012
Today’s Day 6 of the Simplify for Fall Challenge, and we’re tackling routines and schedules for the fall!
By the way, I completely left the family/living room and entryway off my schedule, so we’ll be hitting those areas on Monday!
Fall typically represents a slower schedule for our family — compared to the busyness of summer — but this year it doesn’t look like things will slow down until November. However, I’ve been scaling back some of my work commitments again to make more time for homeschooling, and I’m anxious to get a new daily schedule in place and start thinking through some new routines.
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