My Autumn Clean Up has begun

Yes it has! My Autumn Clean Up has begun and well and truly under way. 

The first place I started was the top of my Cube units. The one beside my bed and the one by my built in closet. 

The tops were full of clutter and was really getting on my nerves.

I know I have only myself to blame, but as a busy mum it can be hard to juggle organisation and a busy schedule so doing my Seasonal clean ups really helps discipline me to declutter and take action. 

As you can see from the picture above it was a mess, with a Filofax I no longer used, perfume bottle that was empty, a bottle of children's Calpol that had been there for a while, so of course threw these away.

My makeup caddy was filthy, and so cleared this out, and disposed of some not used stick on nails, a eye pencil I knew I wouldn't use and some makeup remover which had been there over a year or two. I will no longer waste money on such items.

I have moved my makeup to one area, my Studio unit.   

As I was clearing this space I was already feeling a level of satisfaction and accomplishment.

The picture above is of my makeup which is in my studio unit. It is good to have it all in one area now rather having to move to o and fro, I can just get there and it is beside our tall mirror so perfect location.

I will be making more space in this area as I know I don't need all those makeup/toiletry bags, but keeping it like this for now until I have given my cube units a good clearing out.

With decluttering and having a busy schedule doing little bits at a time can be the best way. Doing too much in one go can easily blow you out, and destroy your motivation.

This is the after picture of the top of my Black cube unit by my bed, and as you can see it is a lot better. On top is a shoe box I recycled as storage of some bits and bobs, like my USB stick,  some  broken jewellery that I do plan to fix, just items I want to keep for now but not sure what to do with. 

Then on top of this is an opened dated week-to-week planner which I have used to display any important events or appointments I need to remember. 

Next to this, are my deodorant sprays, hair refresher and hand cream.

I really love this area now, as it is clutter free and minimal, with a few and I mean a few items in storage. I cleared out my shoe box too, as this was full of items I no longer needed aswell.

So all in all a really good fresh area now, and makes me feel within a whole lot better.

I also cleared the top of my other cube unit, as again it was cluttered with some out of date Filofax planner inserts  as I had accidentally bought two lots on Amazon. They were for my financial planner.

There was a children's story book CD, a hair band and just rubbish. So cleared this off. 

Sorry that there isn't a before picture, I started clearing this off and only after I cleaned it, did I remember that I hadn't taken a before picture. However see above, is the finished result.

I used Mr Sheen to polish and to dust it off, and now there is a lovely photo frame, which I bought from Poundland and has a picture of my Great Grandmother, my mums dads mother, an owl candle from I believe was from Poundland to, a a Friends Always photo frame, which I found in a charity shop and  the photo is from my wedding with my friends I have known since school and a clock which I purchased from Avon.

There are a few conkers to help keep the spiders away that creep in to keep warm doing the Autumn and Winter months.

I like once again that it is clutter free,  minimal and pleasant to look at now.

The other areas I cleaned up in my husband and I's bedroom was the tops of my plastic storage units. I see from the photo my husband has got to do his one, however mine as you can see from the photo are clutter free.

There were clothes that needed to be put away, which I did, my hair dryer, a pink tie that I know my husband wasn't never gonna wear again, a bit of string from one of his fleeces, a tie from I think a dress I had, had, but no longer do, and another toiletry bag, which I put in my Studio unit.

The Plastic storage units are I think from Wilko and Homebase.

Gave these a dust and hey presto the area was cleared and cleaned. HOORAY!

​I will try my hardest to keep these areas clutter free.

​I also cleared the windowsills. As you can see in the picture above the one on the left, this is of  my which was okay accept that there was another clock the same style as the one on my cube unit, so decided to use this for the guest bedroom once I get it to work. All it needs is a battery so will get this done at some point.

The candles were okay, but had these for a while and so want to burn these out when it is safe, best to do it at night when son is in bed or away, as he had the tendency to grab such items if they are reachable. These candles if you wanted to know were from Avon again. I would like to eventually get a more Autumnal candle to suit the season better.

In the before picture you can see an owl photo frame, which had been broken, so needed replacing.

Plus I wanted some other photos to be there instead.

Moving onto the after picture which is to the right of the screen is the revamped version and I am pretty pleased with it. Very cost effective. The frames were from Poundland, I also got two little white shells from Dunelm. One for my windowsill and one for my husbands. These were only £2.50 and of course as mentioned I kept the candles.

I really like this space now and feel it is more pleasing to the eye than it was before. It is nice to create areas which can make you feel  calm, relaxed and at peace. I printed the photos that are in the frames using an APP called FreePrints. 

Onto my husbands  windowsill which I also changed See photo above. The photo frame again is from Poundland, the shell with the conkers on it was from Dunelm, the skull ashtray which my husband uses to keep knick-knacks  we bought when we lived in Bognor Regis  and they had a Gothic kind of shop. The skull beer canter is from a shop in Epsom called Quest.

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So I will add more as I continue on with my Autumn Clean up, but for now I hope this has inspired you to also have a clear out and get ready for the new season ahead.

Remember I also share blogs on this site on my Fashion/Books/Gallery/Gift Idea pages. In Managing the home you can find my Seasonal Clean up blogs page, I share details of Homewares , about Filofaxes and Planners  and free Printables  and I also write blogs on WordPress.com too (see below):

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https://theparentingadventures.wordpress.com/
https://theparentingadventurestipsandtricks.wordpress.com/
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Many thanks for reading.


Carrie Challoner 

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