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Monday, 23 April 2012

Bedroom spring clean

We have a few bad habits, one of them is that we never ever fold our clothes when we change from the day clothes to pyjamas. We just place all the clothes on this small table in the bedroom.


Sometimes the pile is so big that the clothes on top keep falling on the floor. We've tried to change our habits, but so far with no lasting results. Next to the table is a small shelf and the plan is that we would fold our clothes on the shelves. But it seems to be very difficult. Very very difficult. The table is very pretty, it should be seen and not being covered by all those clothes.

I folded all the clothes and placed my clothes on my shelf, then folded all A's clothes and tried to place them on the shelf but it was allready so full that I had to leave them on the table.


Once I had done that I started removing all the underbed boxes to vacuum and mop the floor. I was supriced to find there one bottle of apple wine that we had made on the fall of 2009. I had been sure that we had drunk all the wine ages ago. That was a fun surprice.



I took the wine out from the box and since it's now empty I will take the underbed storage box to the outside storage room.

After I had most of the floor vacuumed and mopped I pulled the bed and the night stands away from the wall and cleaned the area under them. We also have some wires cables going under the bed for the lamps and the cell phone chargers. 


Those collect so much dust that I desided to contain them somehow. I had a bit of that wire cable tube thingy at home and used all of it. I think I will go and buy more, because it's good to have that at home in case of wire cable emergencies. 


After that was done, I pushed all the furniture back in their place and wiped all the other horizontal surfaces. 

We have a huge round lamp in the bedroom and I desided to dust it. It collects lot of dust. I placed an old sheet on the bed and dusted the lamp, since always some dust drops on the bed instead of getting cought on the duster.


I took pictures of the cleaned room after a few days on day light. I'm very annoyed that allready after a few days I can see new dust forming of top of the furniture. I guess it's all the textiles that make the bedroom so dusty. But here is after.



Would you have any ideas how we could motivate ourselves to fold our clothes, or would you have some other alternative for the folding of used clothes? Folding the clean clothes after washing has never been an issue, which is weird.

11 comments:

  1. We have a chest of drawers with 3+3 baskets, one for husband and one for myself. We put the day clothes there if they are not going directly to laundry (there is another basket for that). Actually I think what helps the most is that there is no horizontal surface in the bedroom where to put clothes :D Maybe you should place a lamp, a painting, a statue or similar on the pretty table?

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    1. Baskets could be a good idea. Thanks. But would the bottom ones be easily forgotten there?

      Removing all the horizontal surfaces would be excellent. It's too bad the table does not really fit well anywhere else, but we have been planning to buy a table fan, so if we place that on the table no clothes would fit on it. Hopefully.

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  2. Oh, we do the exact same thing. My dresser has a mountain of clothes on top that I was planning on tackling today. Good work on cleaning yours up. Let us know how it goes keeping it that way! :)

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    1. I'm sort of glad to hear others have same problems :) I'm not alone, yay, but we should find a solution for this.

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  3. Funny- we have a chair where all the clothes end up. I usually put mine away right away (part of my "Don't put it down- Put it away!" resolution). My husband on the other hand...

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    1. I've had time periods when I've folded all my clothes and placed them on the shelf every night, but that has not stuck for more than a month at a time. I don't mean so sound discouraging, but I haven't been able to keep it up. Hope it works better with you.

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  4. http://www.pentik.com/fi/products/kalusteet/Sivut/Product.aspx?Catalog=VCNK60&ProductID=5TIK5323011%28Pentik+Base+Catalog%29

    We have this in our bedroom, it works fine. There is limited amount of space and clothes does not look so bad and messy in it ;)

    -Irkku

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    1. Kiitti Irkku! That could actually work, I like it a lot! Thanks.

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  5. We do the same thing! My ay to combat it is to pick them up and deal with them as part of my morning "make the bed" routine. I'm sure you will figure it out! Your room looks fresh and clean!

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    1. We don't make the bed either... ever. Ups.
      Thanks, I do feel a lot better when the bedroom is clean.

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  6. Clothes rack/hooks?

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