SHEs Organized

Here's our Current Thread!
You're in the right place to chat and easily find each other in (approximately) the same rooms through 2026. Everybody's waving from their porch at the same time, or in their kitchens at the same time, etc.

( UNLESS - they might be decluttering ahead in the upcoming week's room for easier cleaning! )

For chatting in current time this year, our current thread will always be FIRST in the line-up of topics in the forum. Our second round's calendar is in this post. The locked sticky threads about Focus Cleaning are just below, including the full 2026 Focus Cleaning Calendar for planning.

A consistently clean home is within reach! It's not that we need to clean everything suddenly We only need to clean CONSISTENTLY throughout the year we know that. Focus is Forgiving! It gives us ONE idea for an already-complete plan of rotation to keep us on track and keep each lovely area from neglect. We don't have to re-invent the wheel, just roll along with the one we have at the ready, a week at a time.

Here's a space to chat about our second rounds through our homes, which will be from today through the week of Monday, May 25 . Eleven rooms/areas for eleven weeks. Change the room or area names around to suit your home, record them in personal record-keeping if you want, in whatever form you like, and let's go through the house again!

If you are on a different plan for cleaning, please chat with us anyway, okay? We'd love to hear what you are doing through these months. To find some reminders and tips about rooms, check out the locked thread titled, "Clickable - The Eleven Focus areas and their How-To-Clean Notes". The contents listing there allows us to click on a room/area and go right to those Focus notes. (So does the Maintenance thread)

For quick reference here, our second round will find us :

Round 2
3/16/2026 porch/entry
3/23/2026 bedrooms
3/30/2026 bathrooms
4/6/2026 office/other room
4/13/2026 closets
4/20/2026 laundry
4/27/2026 storage
5/4/2026 outdoor
5/11/2026 kitchen
5/18/2026 living room
5/25/2026 dining room

The whole idea of this is set up to PREVENT a person from getting stuck in one room, right? If I don't get finished in Room A the first week, I should just move to Room B for the next week and trust that I will be back in ten weeks. That is kinda hard for me to do, but OTOH, it is obviously hard for me to get finished with Room A. Choose your hard, right?

The things that are getting me bogged down in here are not really cleaning, or even decluttering, tasks. They are more like paperwork projects... so I guess I should look at them differently, apart from the 11 weeks.

Harriet, I'm afraid I am backslidden on the photo task. I have them in the envelopes they come in, so they are somewhat separated by dates, but it has been a LONG time since I put any in albums, and now I am afraid that is too space-consuming. The albums are taking over the space allotted for them, and I know ds will not have space for them when they become his. So now I am thinking box storage of the envelopes is probably the best thing to do -- although dgd does enjoy looking through the albums of when her daddy was little.

It has been too wet to do much spring prep. out side so I've been trying to do 1-3 declutter items and or put away
in the laundry furnace storage zone this month it is looking better yea! Freezer is in this room also.
I've worked on the dining room this week.

Yesterday's work on the Christmas card address list counts as Office Zone. It has been a long procrastinated task, and I am sooo glad it is done.

I'm mostly keeping up with my routines indoors, but it's peak growing season here, so I'm concentrating on outdoors. I had the house painters paint the outside of the house last week, so I had to move everything off the patio, and sweep it ready for them. Afterwards, I cleaned the weeds from the joints between the paving, and was very "choosy" about what I kept and what went in the garden bin.

The forget-me-nots are going over,.so I'm pulling them out one clump at a time, giving them a good shake so they drop their seeds for next year, and then mulching and forking over the soil. And then I need to decide what to plant in the gaps ... maybe I could sow some Virginia stock if it isn't too late in the year.