Rose of Sharon Jewelry

I’m excited to share a great time saver – a folding storage bin/cart to carry all my cleaning products from room to room. Maids have carts so I figured there should be a home version. But I never found anything affordable or suitable for a 2-story house. During today’s trip to Office Depot, I discovered a buy-1-get-1 offer so I got one free for upstairs cleaning!

My $19.95 folding storage bin has a luggage-style long handle and easily holds all my favorite cleaners, paper towers, dust clothes, furniture cleaner and the small attachments for my steamer.

The bin has a lid and the handle easily collapses so the entire cart can slide into a closet or cabinet.

Yeah! I more item off my January “Make Me Happy” list.

P. S. The Office Depot BOGO sale is this week only and not available online.

January is a month filled with potential and pitfalls. My goal for the month is to dejunk my life. For sometime I’ve felt a need to clear away the mental and physical clutter.

I don’t have a rigid set of daily goals but a process of checking into my happy center of the brain and gut. I’ve discovered through years of failed reorganization efforts and multiple organization plans that rigid means failure. I just have a streak of “don’t make me do that” a mile wide. But I have found that checking in with myself throughout the day to see how I feel about what I’ve accomplished is a powerful tool.

Instead of an overwhelming To Do List, I have a makes me happy list. Just a few things to accomplish during the day that makes my stress level decrease, gives me a feeling of satisfaction and makes me feel productive.

Arden has caught the dejunk bug too so we cleaned and reorganized my huge upstairs linen closet on Saturday.  This is an A+ in my happy center!

Today I’m making myself happy by listing more books on Amazon for resell (so far in 2 weeks I’ve made $60). I get to clean up my office and earn some treat money!

My desktop is almost clear (as is my very visually based mind) and tomorrow I’ll take on my health insurance company!