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Keep the Bedrooms Clean

source: Mandi Ehman

Our family is working to build better habits, and I’m sharing them with you each week through the Family Boot Camp series. This week my focus is on cleaning up the upstairs each day, especially after quiet time.

Daily quiet time is an important part of our routine, but one aspect we’ve struggled with is cleaning up the upstairs afterward.

We’ve actually always required the girls to clean up after their “nap”, but we have not been very good at checking their rooms to be sure they are really clean, which means we’re often surprised by messes at bedtime. It also means I’ve been stuck doing a major clean upstairs every few weeks!

We’re really good at cleaning up downstairs each night before bed, so it was frustrating to not have those same routines in place upstairs, especially since I love the simplicity that comes from cleaning up every day: messes don’t get out of hand, we never have to devote several hours to cleaning up and we’re practicing the discipline of taking care of something right away rather than saving it from later.

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Simplify for Fall Challenge with @lifeyourway #simplifyingforfall http://bit.ly/O94Ww4

Today’s Day 3 of the Simplify for Fall Challenge, and we’re tackling toys and school supplies!

Today is a fairly light day for me, so I’ll mostly be playing catch up on the things I didn’t finish yesterday and Monday. It’s not because our toys are never an issue but because I couldn’t handle the chaos any longer, so I already went through all of our toys a couple of weeks ago! (For all of my toy organizing tips, see Organizing and Decluttering Children’s Toys: The Ultimate Guide.)

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A Helpful Guide to Owning Fewer Toys

December 14, 2011
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The following post is from Joshua of Becoming Minimalist: Toys. Sometimes, they feel like they are everywhere. And with the holidays right around the corner, that feeling is likely going to be around awhile. Unless, of course, we do something about it. Just to be clear, although we have taken a number of steps to reduce the [...]

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Organizing and Decluttering Children's Toys: The Ultimate Guide

August 23, 2011
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In the wake of Christmas or “birthday month” in September (when three of our girls celebrate their birthdays in a span of three weeks), I always find myself wondering if I’m ever going to get the toys organized and put away. With two aunts, three sets of grandparents and several sets of great grandparents and [...]

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Project Simplify: Kids Clothes & Toys

March 25, 2011
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All month, I’m participating in Project Simplify over at Simple Mom. Each week for five weeks, Tsh is sharing a new hot spot and inviting readers to join her in decluttering & simplifying that space. I’m excited to be participating and decided that I’d give you a peek inside our home with vlogs instead of [...]

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Spring Cleaning Party: Toys, Toys and More Toys

May 13, 2009

Keeping kids toys organized is definitely an ongoing process and one that will probably be repeated over and over until your kids are grown and gone. However, having a simple organizational system and reducing the number of toys in your home will help keep the clutter to a minimum and make it easier for children [...]

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Getting Control of the Toys: How I Do It

January 12, 2009

In this week’s vlog, my girls and I sorted and organized our toys to “get control of the clutter”! Note: I’m still getting the hang of this vlogging. The sun went down while we were organizing the toys, and my camera doesn’t handle dim light very well, so the lighting isn’t that great at the [...]

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