My 21 Day Challenge...Day 7,8 & 9

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Here is a re-cap of what I've been doing.

Although my post is late...

I have been keeping up with the daily challenge.

I'm excited to see what challenge awaits me every morning 

and I have noticed it has spread throughout the rooms that each challenge is in.

My kids even ask with excitement what I am working on.

They also want to know if I win a prize at the end.

Of course...

 there is an organized house!

Day 9

...the kids toys

Lucky for me, my kids are old enough to keep all their toys in their rooms and play on their own.

They have outgrown the polly pockets, barbies, toy cars and planes.  

But they never outgrow legos.

They have moved on to video games, board games, cards and anything magnetic.

For today's challenge, I decided to clean out the cabinet where the board games live.

I want to put them out in the open so my kids will remember to play.

Since I put them in the cabinet, they don't seem to want to play with them as much.

Out of sight, out of mind I guess?

I picked up a bookcase at Ikea awhile back.

I turned it onto it's side and added some chrome legs.

It now houses the kids video games and console 

and the TV.

I had no idea what to store in the bottom and all the cords are visible.

I cleaned the bookcase all out and gave it a good wipe down.

Then I took all the games and tried to hide all the cords in the back.

Now the kids have games out in the open to play with and I can rotate them with the games that are still in the cabinet. And the new ones they received for Christmas too.

Day 8

The challenge for the day is my hall closet.  I thought it wouldn't be too bad of a challenge because I just cleaned and purged all the summer flip-flops, old jackets, hats, beach toys, towels and anything else that was hiding in there.  

And then I opened the closet!  

What happened??? 

 All the snow boots, gloves and jackets exploded.
I guess the system I have in there is not working for the family.
I will clean it out again and re-organize and hopefully that will work out at least until Spring.

Here is what the closet looks like...before

And here is how I hope it stays...after

All cleaned out and ready to organize...

All done!

After cleaning everything out, I realized all the jackets needed to be washed.
It's also a snow day...so the kids have the rest of the jackets on.
It's so cold outside, I made them wear about 20 layers.

The gloves and hats are now stored in the plastic drawers.
And the shoes are stored in the bottom drawer.
My store bags are ready to go in my shopping basket.

Everything else made it to where they belong...in the bedroom closet.

Day 7 
...the Kitchen Pantry

Good thing I was given 2 days for this challenge.  I was dreading this one.
I had no idea what was even in there.
 I have two spots I store my food.
One is a small closet.

It holds my snacks, cereal, juice and any extras that have no home.

My second pantry are cabinets I installed from IKEA.

I removed the original bottom cabinet and top cabinet.  I wanted to have more room for food.  I'm not sure I accomplished that.  When I bought the cabinet, IKEA was out of the large shelving, so I installed the smaller ones.  I left it open because I couldn't make a decision about the door. Since I left it open, I decided to put my coffee maker on the shelf and use it more like a counter space.  Just like how it was originally. I know what you're thinking because I say it to myself all the time...why did you change it???

I cleaned, I purged, I sorted, I had a few snacks...
and then I put it all back!

I used tupperware containers...

I used bins...

I used jars...

and then I looked back and enjoyed a cup of coffee.