Three-week Challenge: One Room

[ninetydegrees]

Do you manage with weekly cleaning but keep putting off less frequent tasks? I have a challenge for you: get one room completely clean/tidied up by March 28th. Get your stepladder and dust the top of those cabinets. And isn't it time to wash those curtains? When was the last time you moved your furniture and hoovered behind it? Threw out or donated what you no longer needed?

Come on, just choose a room and do what you always postpone to never later. Feel free to comment to say which room you want to tackle, mention whenever you managed to accomplish something - small or big - so that we can cheer you on, and ask for or share some tips.

(P.S. Thanks, Yvi!)

Comments

[yvi]

Yay challenge :)

Do you have to post this right after (two people) cleaning the bath, kitchen, and living room for three hours :) Though there are always things left to do there, so I a m not sure yet whether to pick one of those or the office, which is due to be 'base cleaned' tomorrow and looks like a bomb exploded in there.

[ninetydegrees]

XD I've been cleaning since 10am while my Dad was fixing some stuff for me and I've barely started on this challenge! Congrats to you both on getting all these cleaned.

Tough choice, indeed. OTOH, you could kill two birds with one stone by picking the kitchen, OTOH it would be awesome to go from 'Oh my god! Is that an office?' to 'Wow! OFFICE!'. ;)

[ninetydegrees]

I pick the bathroom. Besides ordinary cleaning I want to: dust the top of that overhead shelf thing, clean the interior of my cupboard, declutter it, and wash the shower curtain. And get all the hair out of the drain. Ugh.

[ninetydegrees]

Overhead thing dusted. It was disgusting. *shudders*
Curtain in the washing machine.
Not sure all the hair is out but some is.

*looks at the cupboard* *sigh* Later...

[schnurble]

I found that getting hair out of the drain works rather easy this way:
Take a thin wooden stick (I use the ones that are meant to skewer meat or veggies and then grill them), hold it into the drain and spin it around. The hair will cling to the wooden surface and wind itself around the stick.
So you'll reach easily hair that's already a bit down the drain and you won't even have to remove the sink strainer :o)

The more hair is in there, the better this works actually...

[ninetydegrees]

Good thinking but I don't have a strainer in my bathroom sink. I have a stopper and my hair gets twisted around its rod and another rod below which I can barely reach with my fingers. I do have some sort of strainer/cover in my shower, though. I can't seem to be able to remove it very easily and the holes are very small. I'll have to investigate further. Thanks for making think about it!

[landshark]

I've found that laying a washcloth over the drain when I get in the shower lets the water pass through and all the hair collects on top/around the cloth so I never have to clean the drains. This might work on a sink, too.

[ninetydegrees]

Oh, I can certainly try this. Thanks a lot for the tip!

[ninetydegrees]

I don't think I'll win this challenge but I'm very happy I did some things anyway. I'll try again. :)

[bewize]

I will go in on this. I'm picking my bedroom. I have shelves that need to get organized, a few boxes that need to be moved, comics to be put away and more laundry than you can stand to look at!

[ninetydegrees]

Go you!

Laundry is like bunnies. It multiplies and multiplies...

[shiny_crystal]

I'm cleaning my (only) room right now, but 'curtains' is a good topic ... I've only wanted new ones for, oh, has it been three years? At least I've filed away all the stuff that has been landing on my "file me, I'm important" pile for the past two weeks and I'll go and clean the kitchen in a moment, ideally including the fridge, so I guess that counts ;)

[ninetydegrees]

It does count. Yay for aiming to win both challenges!

[shiny_crystal]

The kitchen is clean, as is the rest of the flat (as I said above, I only have one room so it's not that hard), but not the fridge, sadly ... I'll see what I can do :)

[ninetydegrees]

Congrats! And *cheers* for that fridge. You have plenty of time left so I'm sure you'll do it.

[viklikesfic]

Ooh, this is a good one. I live in an apartment with three rooms, basically (you could separate the kitchen, but it's contiguous with the living room). The living room I fairly regularly tidy, and it's huge, but my bedroom is smaller and tends to have not much floor space. So I'll go for the bedroom. I ain't bothering with the windows b/c I'm keeping them weatherized till April, but I'll try to do something about the floor, dust the furniture, vacuum, etc. Daddy's coming first week in April so I'm planning to do that sheets the day he's coming up since he'll be using my bed when he visits.

[ninetydegrees]

Yay to getting rid of dust!

[viklikesfic]

Hee! I am the worst duster ever, really. I always move out and then dust the top of the doorframes and am like "wow. gross." So this is good :-)

[ninetydegrees]

Same here. I hate dusting. Now I try to do a little bit here and there because having to dust everything at one time means I won't do it at all.

[landshark]

Hmmm...I just redecorated my bedroom but my closet's been a shambles for like 3 years. I've got spring break coming up and I should use it to get this done.

[ninetydegrees]

Your comment made me sort all the papers I have and throw away some while I was at it. Thank you!

[wenchpixie]

I had a bit of a blitz at the weekend - fridge freezer done, craft area sorted, hall table purged.

But that's pretty much just added to the pile of crap in the spare room... so I pick the spare room, because when people stay in there right now I am ashamed.

[ninetydegrees]

Sorry for the late answer. Good luck! It sounds like an awesome project! :)

[ladysunflow]

Yay challenge done! I spent 6 hours yesterday cleaning every nook and cranny (even the ceiling!) of the bathroom in my soon-to-be flat. It's so shiny now. The other rooms won't be that easy though.

[ninetydegrees]

Congratulations! You can be proud of yourself! It feels good when it's the bathroom's spotless, doesn't it?

[viklikesfic]

Done and dusted! (Literally). Bedroom is clean. Granted, my clean is not everybody's clean--there are still some odds and ends on one of my desks, for example, though only the necessary ones. My sheets look raggedy because they always do (they're queen sheets on a full bed). But I cleared off surfaces, dusted, folded my "not quite dirty, not quite clean" clothes and put them in one place, cleared off the chair, made the bed, organized my under-the-bed boxes where my clothes live, got the dirty clothes in a trash bag, and vacuumed. I still need to clean my computer screen but other than that, I'm finished.

[ninetydegrees]

If you say it's clean then it is! :) Congratulations!