Broken Dryer Top 10 Lessons Learned

10. Your house can drop 2 degrees by hanging 200 pieces of wet clothes everywhere
9. Hang pieces in the room where they belong
8. Hanging clothes decreases wrinkles
7. You don't know what you've got till it's gone...
6. Ducking under hanging clothes is a workout routine.
5. Air dried towels also exfoliate!
4. No procrastinating to put the clothes away
3. No digging through drawers to find your clothes
2. I never would have made it in the early days!
1. Magically, an $18 part, can turn into a $165 repair bill!

I have survived! The repair man came this morning, and I've never been so excited to hear the hummmm of my dryer! He even removed about $2 in change, and don't even have to listen to a clanking sound!! WOW! I can't wait to do more laundry! ;)

Spring Cleaning at the Briners!

Well, I started out the day...motivated and inspired to get organized. I told Eric last night, that this weekend, I was having a Memorial Day Makeover, and was getting some Spring Cleaning done!! This morning I started my Things to Do list on Outlook. I also checked out http://www.flylady.com. Not quite sure how it is going to be...but I did go over some of the e-mails they sent. (Yes, I said some...I think they sent about 10 within the first 10 minutes!!) One of the things was a shiny sink! Sounded good to me. Here are the directions for a shiny sink:

1. Clear dishes out of sink
2. Fill basin with hot water, add one cup of bleach. Let set for one hour
3. Rinse thoroughly, then scrub with comet
4. Rinse thorougly, then spray with Windex
5. Wipe dry

I never knew how nice it is to have such a clean sink! It has been motivating to keep the dishes out of it today too!

Another thing that I read is collecting 10 things that you can get rid of. I included the boys in this one. I gave them each a "Blessing Bag", (white plastic bag) and told them we were going to bless 3 children with toys. I had them each choose 10 items to get rid of. Here were the rules:

1. It had to be their toy :)
2. If it was not the size of their hand, (happy meal toys) it only counts as a half
3. I had to approve all toys

It was actually kinda fun! It was interesting to see who the sentamental boys were, and who just wanted to be done! They also found some toys that were buried in their toy boxes, that they were excited to play with again.

I'll be posting more of my Spring Cleaning ideas soon!