Or…what's Dave Ramsey got to do with cleaning my room? He came to mind as we are tackling a major whole house clean and purge. If you aren't familiar with Dave Ramsey's debt snowball method he recommends that you list your bills from largest to smallest. Then you make minimum payments on all but the smallest and throw all you've got on that one til it's paid off. Then you take that monthly allotment plus the amount you were spending on that smallest debt and apply it all to the next larger bill. And so on and so on. Well it occurred to me that it can be a big morale boost to clean that way. I am hitting the rooms that are easily managed and rolling from there.
The master bedroom has always been one of my favorite rooms in this house. The bed linens are from Martha Stewart's Water Garden set we found discounted several years ago and have held up very well. Coincidentally the heavy butter yellow English drapes that were here when we arrived matched perfectly so I bought zero things for this room. Nada. The side table is actually a sewing machine table with another drape thrown over. Since I didn't actually use the sewing machine you see.
Old friends will remember we found the bed our first day in Germany from a local vendor. Some weeks later we found the matching armoire at a junk shop. That story is here. The two pieces are living happily in this old house in England now.
So, organization snowball. That's what's happening over here. Auntie Leila explains exactly how we do things so there is no need to repeat. If it's been a while since you have really deep cleaned or you don't know where to begin please go directly there. Read, be inspired. Like her, I began with the master bedroom. My husband's work clothes are in the armoire. The rest of our things are in two particle board type wardrobes in the closet behind the door. Shoes are hung in bags on the other side of the doors. All my small jewelry is kept in one of these. My necklaces are hung over a couple command hooks inside the wardrobe door. Scarves are wrapped over a hanger like this.
So there you have it. More rooms to follow because ready or not the move is happening.
Starry Sky Journal 
This looks like such a bright and airy room – lovely! I really like the idea of the cleaning snowball. I think I tend to start at the opposite end, tackling what looks worst. But then, of course, perfectionism takes over so I have to rip it all down to the bare bones and sort and scrub and then whoops, all three babies are up from their naps and rolling through my piles of sorting leaving trails of destruction in their wake and we’re worse off than when I started. We’d also noticed that our Master Bedroom really gets the short end of the stick because it’s the least “urgent” room when guests come, so it gets pushed off to last (read never) on the deep cleaning schedule, and gets piled with baskets of laundry or extra blankets or what have you from the other rooms we’re clearing. My husband, bless his heart, took it on himself to utterly clear out the room, bring order, thoroughly clean, and make it a real haven right before the holidays. Best Christmas gift this year!
So pretty! And peaceful.
Looking around my house right this very minute….there is absolutely no organization. And the kicker….no kids either. Let me know if you find my fishing reel while you’re packing.
Just the thought of moving all that stuff for all those people gives me hives. lol