Kids’ Room - New Year’s Cleaning
Did anyone else clean ALL day like crazy on New Year’s? Or perhaps after the tornado came through your living room on Christmas?
If you have kids…you totally just nodded!
This first photo may not look like I did a lot of cleaning, but when you do a deep cleaning of a 5 and 7 year old’s room, you find the works! Your tin foil wrap that went missing, seeds from your neighborhood walks, shells (and sand) from the beach, tons and tons of drawings on tons and tons of little pieces of paper, and OH that overdue library book you kept asking your son about and he “doesn’t remember” seeing it anywhere. Hallelujah we found it!
This was me on New Year’s Day. I dedicated I don’t know…7 hours to the kids’ room and I’m here to encourage you that you can do it! It was the once a year clean out after getting some new toys, to really start off the year with a total clean out. We donate toys and clean all throughout the year, but this was the nitty gritty dump every bookshelf out and look at every single thing you touch asking yourselves, “Keep? Donate? Toss?” And when you’re done, it’s quite the feeling. I even sent my own mom a pic of the room I cleaned!
Well it was not my room, it was the kids’ room, but this is one of those times I have them sit on the couch, watch TV and cruise, not bother me, and let me have at it. Plus, I learn a lot about my own kids when you spend a whole day in their room! Then when it’s all done, I take out the bags of trash, vacuum the floor we haven’t seen in a while, and start loading the car for a donation drop off.
Go for it mom and dad! I’m telling you in this moment of just finishing, just how dang great it feels to know you thoroughly cleaned your kids’ room and you know what is in there (and no longer in there). It’s good to face it all! :p
And the look of joy on the kids’ facec when they see the toys they haven’t been able to “find in forever” because it was shoved in a corner somewhere, is worth it.
Just give yourself a whole day and clean away! I’m cheering for you!
erins’ tip
Put on some fun music, give yourself a refreshing iced tea, start in one corner andd go! Work your way around the perimeter touching one thing at a time. It will take time, but you’ll feel so good after!
I love putting things in clear, easy to see and easy to carry baskets to organize things by themes or “centers.” I had these baskets when I was an elementary school teacher over 15 years ago, and I think I got them from Daiso.
