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Sep 26 2012

20 Days to Organise & Clean your home Challenge – Day 19

Category: Organising

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Kids Bedroom - The last room we are going to clean in this challenge is the kids bedrooms.  I decided to leave it to the end of the challenge so your kids are able to help you if they are home on holidays.  

Cleaning tasks for the kid’s bedroom:

  • Open window to let in fresh air
  • Strip the bed sheets off the bed
  • Wash all bedding
  • Wash all teddies and then put on line in sunshine for a few hours to help remove dustmites
  • Vacuum mattress
  • Flip mattress if you haven’t recently
  • Pick up and put away all clothing
  • Pick up and put/throw away all other clutter
  • Dust all surfaces, bedside tables, dressing tables, mirrors, picture frames
  • Dust ornaments
  • Vacuum ceiling fan to remove dust that has settled during winter
  • Vacuum the floor, including under the bed
  • Place clean linens on the bed

Kids Bedroom - Kids bedrooms can easily accumulate so much ‘stuff’, items they bring home from school, all their toys, books, pieces of paper or clothes, today we are going to do a general declutter of their room.

Donate or store away for hand me downs the following from the kids rooms

  • Small clothes
  • Shoes that are too small
  • Toys they have outgrown
  • Books they have outgrown
Throw out
  • Rubbish
  • Paper clutter
  • Broken toys

Kids Bedrooms - During October I will be sharing lots of tips on organising the kid’s bedroom like organising their wardrobes and keeping lego under control.  But for this challenge I want to share with you one thing that has really helped me.  Kids are kids and their standard of tidy and my standard are completely different.  For example the kids make their bed each morning, but it’s usually always lumpy, when they were younger I would go in and straighten it.  But now, I am happy that they at least made their bed without me nagging, I’m grateful for their effort.  I’m content with it being  ’perfectly imperfect.’  

Part with sentimental clutter.  If you don’t love it or use it has to go.  Read this full detailed post about how to part with sentimental items.

Next time your wheelie bin is emptied take time to give it a quick clean.  Grab the garden hose and give it a good rinse out, empty out water and leave the lid open for it to dry.  Remove any cobwebs from the handles.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/cathy.amarantidis Cathy Amarantidis

    haha! because today was a light day for me i decided to tack on the kids bedroom’s – i have a little bit to do tomorrow but not as much as above which is great! Will try and get to the other things on my to do list!

  • Beck

    I was kind of forced to do this challenge early so I could fit my sons cot in the bedroom :) I’m so pleased with how it looks but I do have to work with our 12 year old who has so much stuff! Out of the 4 kids he has the most stuff and uses it the least… :)

  • Nanna

    My four “kids” have all left home, married and have kids of their own BUT my house is more cluttered now! I often have grandchildren stay over so I still have kid things around for them. Is there anyone else out there like me??

  • http://www.facebook.com/louise.rea.5 Louise Rea

    Oh only 1 more day to go :( going to miss each day’s challenges

  • http://www.facebook.com/Tiggles13 Tegan Kirk

    This is going to be a hard one for me. I have a 7 month old who requires constant disctraction during the day so I do all me cleaning when he is down for his sleeps. I am not able to tidy his room while he is sleeping… Will tackle this when he is having a good day, in little doses. Luckily his room isnt too bad anyway. I will use this day to catch up on all the tasks I have missed.

    • http://www.facebook.com/maryanne.greenhill Maryanne Greenhill

      Can you use a playpen or let bub roll on the floor while you clean? I have a 9 month old girl that has learnt to kneel and sit during this challenge because I bring her into the room I’m cleaning with some toys, so she can ‘gaa’ at me!

      • http://www.facebook.com/Tiggles13 Tegan Kirk

        Unfortunately he was at the stage where he actually needs me sitting with him otherwise he screams! I did manage to clean his room while my husband took him for a walk one day :) He is a lot better now and I am able to clean while he plays :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/corrie.pierce.9 Corrie Pierce

    Loving the challenges! Although I’m all out of order due to nesting!!

  • Justine

    Ahh Got my seven year old to tidy her room today, and am about to vacumm, so tomorrow the other 2 kiddy bedrooms which aren’t as bad:)

  • Naomi

    gee wiz! I have 3 boys each with their own room full of stuff (OMG!!!!). This is a room a day job for us. They are away at grandparents until the weekend so I may stretch the challenge out for a few days so they can each help with their rooms. I’ll also add clean the window to my list.

  • Zoe

    this one couldnt of come at a better time, Mr 2.5 is going from cot to toddler bed tomorrow :)

  • Tammy

    still have so much to do to finish the 20 days of tasks, but lots of inspiration and motivation. Will certainly miss it. But Katrina, don’t scare us already, today’s printable IS for DAY 19 isn’t it?! Please don’t let it be day 20 already as it says above the image!
    Going away tomorrow, will move 2yo into toddler bed from cot on return, and 7yo to her own room. Kids’ room will wait until then!

  • http://www.facebook.com/maryanne.greenhill Maryanne Greenhill

    Can’t wait for the Lego under control ideas. I have a 10, 9,7, 5,4,2,and 9 month old. The oldest four can play lego on a bed sheet on the floor without making a huge mess! The 4 and 2 year olds LOVE lego men and are always taking them and losing them around the house, then they break the older children’s creations. I get so frustrated with the lego all around the house ( danger for the 9 month old starting to crawl ) that I put it away in the cupboard again. Please Help! Holidays start on Friday here in WA.

  • Sara

    Think I’ll give washing the teddies a miss! It’s autumn in the UK, the weather is vile and 7 yr old has 100 stuffed creatures on his bed!!!! (Including a 3 foot long shark called Sid!)

  • Priscilla

    Woo hoo, cleaned the little one’s room today. Culled a few more toys and will tackle the clothes another time. Was going to do the soft toys today but it was so windy here in Melbourne today thought they would do a Mary Poppins and my darling 21 month old boy would cry at the sight of his beloved toys flying away :(

  • Kerry

    The kids bedrooms are a 20 day challenge all on their own. Been dreading this one….

  • Debbie Reid

    You are a godsend. My life has become a lot less frustrating due to these really easy challenges. I now feel super organised and due to this i am much better to be around just ask my kids. I love the folder and will continue to keep this up as i find this has made life so much easier and a hell of lot more enjoyable. Thank you so much!

  • Shireen Baker

    My daughter aged 10 did her own room yesterday. 3 black garbage bags to the op-shop,1 black garbage bag of rubbish and an old school bag full of toys to be donated. Now, just need to move onto Mr 14′s room….

  • RevMum

    Tegan Kirk – set up the portacot in another room and you can clean while bubba is sleeping! :)

  • melissa

    So pleased I’ve done this one…forced to do it a few days ago as we were getting visitors. Now it’s a pleasure to walk in to my 6yo and 4yo’s shared room. I think I might have been avoiding it prior to the clean. Huge weight lifted and plenty of toys to be donated. Thanks for the inspiration.

  • Jenny W

    you picked a great day to wash the kids toys. 28 here in Adelaide so drying was sooo quick my 4 year old didnt even mind her “friends” hanging upside down on the line for the few hours it needed! My kids rooms look lovely tonight and i even got to going through one rooms worth of toys and chucking out/putting away a bunch of toys! One room left to do toys of but i have to wait till 4 year old is out the house or no way she will let me give anything away!! :) Glad its pick your own tomorrow im looking forward to doing my pantries as i dont have any rooms left un done!! YEY!

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