After having almost a week off from work thanks to our recent snow event, having a three day weekend feels like I’m cheating the system somehow! I’m so used to working on MLK Day thanks to overtime that I really am feeling like I am getting away with something by having the day off. So I want to make the most of my extra day. I think a three day weekend checklist is in order.
There’s nothing like an extra day to give me an extra boost to my desire to declutter this house. Even though I’ve had that time off with the snow, not much got done. I wasn’t productive at all. I’ve been given a second chance.
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Here’s what’s on my three day checklist:
Clean the kitchen
Work on blog posts
Work on blog goals (yes that’s different than just blog posts)
Clean/declutter kids room *
Declutter toy bin
Workout at least twice
Binge watch season 1 of Victoria on Amazon Prime **
Wash and braid Brianna’s hair
Laundry
*ahh the dreaded kids room. This is spurred by the fact that my daughter has lost a library book that is now due. Can I tell you how aggravating it is to deal with this yet again from my now 7th grader? She used to lose library books from the school library all the time when she was younger. I’ve had to pay for full-fledged books because of her and I am not a fan. She has been looking for this one missing book for a few days and can’t find it. So that means Mama is going to look for it. Which means that as I look for it, I am going with a couple of trash bags in tow and what can be donated will be and what is trash (according to me) will be, and because I have to get involved she has no involvement. And I bet you 5 bucks that I will find that book in less than an hour.
**I have been seeing commercials about Victoria on Masterpiece coming on Sunday night. I’ve set my DVR. Then I was looking online and realized that this isn’t season 1 of the show coming on TV, it’s season 2. Which means I needed to find and watch season 1. Thankfully it’s on Amazon Prime and I have been watching since Friday night. I can’t help it I’m obsessed with all things monarchy! (I’m technically posting this on Sunday morning thanks to it being cloudy yesterday{for pics}, by now I have completed season 1 and I LOVE this show!! Can’t wait to watch tonight!)
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That’s what’s on my three day checklist. Of course on paper it’s been broken down into smaller things per category that needs to be done. It helps to make each task not seem so huge.
By the end of the weekend I expect to have a car trunk full of Goodwill donations. I was recently listening to a podcast about what you can donate to Goodwill that maybe you didn’t think they’d take. Each Goodwill location is different so check their website to verify for yours, but I found those extra tips helpful. I already donate to Goodwill from time to time but I’m on a mission this year to donate at least once a month. I want this stuff out of my house!
I took before pictures ya’ll. So I’ll be sharing my progress soon and how I did. There’s a chance for snow again this upcoming week. In Eastern North Carolina you really can’t say for sure until the day of the actual snow. Especially since our temps have been going from frigid cold last week to 70 degrees and rainy yesterday to seasonable temps of mid 50’s today. We’ll see how it goes. Wish me luck friends! I have some big goals to accomplish!!
I too was not productive while it was snowing but I have been these last few days. Prepping for my tasting party, cleaning out the car,and soon moving towards cleaning a room from top to bottom to declutter and donate or trash before Feb is my new goal. I did accomplish alot Saturday and Sunday that makes me say why didn’t I do anything when it snowed before lol
I do wonder if it will snow this week I seen it on the forecast here but if so I plan to be productive that day for at least 3 hrs.
yayy! that definitely sounds like you’ve had a productive three day weekend! same here for the snow, I’m trying to will it away! lol