I’m on Spring Break this week. I scheduled some posts ahead so I wouldn’t have to worry about the blog while we’re off cooking over a campfire and riding bikes and such.
As shocking as it seems, Spring Break means that Summer is coming.
Summer. Seriously. (Where exactly has this school year gone?)
Since I’m thinking about summer, I thought I would put the thought in your head to consider writing a guest post to be published here at A Slob Comes Clean.
I know that it’s encouraging to see what others are doing in their homes, and so I’m asking you to consider sharing a decluttering, cleaning or organizing project from your own home.
You don’t have to have a blog to write a guest post here. If you do, of course I’ll link to your blog.
I’m not looking for perfection, I’m looking for reality. I want project-based posts rather than advice-based posts.
You can write anonymously, or proudly share your face with the world.
I do want before and after pictures if at all possible.
Oh, and the legal stuff is that any guest post submitted and published here would be owned by me and could be edited by me before publication. By submitting one, you’re agreeing to that. I also can’t guarantee that I can publish every single one since there’s always the (extremely remote) possibility that each and every one of my 10,000 facebook fans would submit a post.
You can email me a completed post with pictures attached, or you can send me a brief summary of your idea if you want to run it by me first.
Just keep it clean! (<– get it?)
Happy Spring Break to you! A week from now I’ll see you at Blissdom. Between now and then I may just pitch you a guest post… 🙂
Love this idea by the way. I may just have to borrow it for my blog. 🙂
I do not have a blog but I am hoping to document some of my projects. I have been married to a wonderful for 28 years now, a great dad and wonderful with anything to do with computers. However he has 2 unwritten rules around the house – never finish nay project he starts and leave his tools in the last place he used them. He can create web pages, fix any software or mechanic issue with computers, networking, cameras and phone systems for his clients on time and under budget but leaves a trail of spare parts and manuals. My house and yard look like a junk yard.
So I have decided to wake up and take control. I am almost 53 and have lived in chaos my entire adult life. I am going to learn how to change the element that has been burned out in my water heater for the last 6 months, replace the faucet in the Kitchen ( We have the tools -if I can find them) and rebuild the commode tank that leaks all the time. I am going to take all the electronic junk that is outside to the recycle center and find storage for all his bits that he has not touched for years but will need as soon as they are thrown ways. I am going Spring clean my mind as well as home.
However, my husband is a very private person and would die if thought I was” showing off” our mess. So sending you my projects will keep me on track and he will never know since he hates anything like this blog, decorating shows, etc.
So far I have ONE habit, which is making the bed and it took me 3 months to establish that, so if any of your other readers are disheartened by their lack of progress, maybe they are like me and it takes A LOT longer to establish routines and habits. Wish me luck!
My decluttering story is simple. I’m a packrat. I actually like my stuff and have no desire to be a minimalist. But after my son was born, I realized I had too much. I wanted my house to be neater and cleaner for him. I’m just about the only person I know whose home is neater now that I have children. I decluttered so they could have open space to play. I tidy regularly because I know that they thrive in a neat space even when mess it up again.
When my husband came home after a trip away last year, he said he worried we had been robbed. Of course, it wasn’t nearly that bad, but I find I am better able to part with things I thought a year ago were essential or beloved.
hi Nony! Are you still accepting submissions for this? I started reading your blog a month or two ago (I think), but I started from the beginning and haven’t caught up to “now” yet, so I realize I’m late to the party. But I have a HUGE project that I’d love to get on top of: my home office. It. Is. A. Disaster. Boxes and piles of papers everywhere, entirely too many bins and trays and containers that I chucked in there thinking that each one would be THE solution to my mess of papers . . . and instead each one has just filled up with disorganized, random paperwork. I even once thought that a second desk (set up in an L configuration) would give me the open space I’d need to really get organized “once and for all” . . . and now I have two completely covered desks.
I’ve spent a good piece of time already going through and shredding stuff, recycling unnecessary papers (3-year-old junk mail? who needs that?), etc., but there is still SO MUCH to do. Maybe having a blog post “due” to you would be a good motivator? If you could still use more of these, please let me know! Meantime, I’m almost caught up to you, so I’m going back to reading =)
Yes! I don’t know exactly when it will post, but I’d love to have it to use on a busy day! Send me an email.