Hey everyone!
Welcome back to Lavendaire, and welcome back to the #GYLTchallenge.
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But if you don't know, this is the third episode in our series.
We already did getting our life together in sleep,
and then getting your life together in habits, and now we're working on the home.
This week, the challenge is to get your home together
and make it feel as fresh and clean and tidy, as homely as you possible can.
So I have quite a bit to do in my house.
We're going to see how much I can get done this week.
First off, let's tidy up the living room.
It was easy to start here since it wasn't so bad to begin with.
Whenever we hang out here, things get naturally moved around
so I'm just resetting everything back into its place.
If you've read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,
one of the tips for a tidy space was to give a proper home for each item that you own.
After you're done with an item,
always return it back to its home to keep your space organized.
Now let's move on to the kitchen.
First step is to tidy the counter.
It always tends to get messy
because it's so easy to leave things there and we always happen to do that.
Then it's time to tackle dishes.
Having a lot of dishes out makes me feel the most messy.
We had friends over recently, hence all the cups.
This is just one of the most tedious chores to me,
but once all the dishes are done, I feel so much better.
The kitchen and entire apartment really feels so much more put together.
After doing the dishes, I'm taking this sponge that we designate
only for cleaning our shower and sinks and I'm cleaning off any buildup in the sink.
Now it's time for my favorite part: wiping everything down.
I'm using my DIY cleaning spray.
It's a natural cleaning spray with lavender and rosemary essential oils.
I shared the recipe in my essential oils hacks video which I'll link down below.
The spray smells so great and works pretty well.
I basically use this to wipe down all the surfaces in our home.
Next, let's declutter our fridge.
First I'm checking everything we have in the fridge and seeing if anything is expired.
For example: This ranch expired in October.
So here are the expired sauces that we had in our fridge.
I know, I was surprised too.
Then I found two open soda cans in the fridge
and I got so annoyed because I'm like, "Ugh, only Wilson would do that."
He'll leave empty packaging in the fridge sometimes, like this empty coffee bottle.
It annoys me so much.
But anyway, here are the things that we can discard from our fridge.
After checking in the freezer, I found a couple things that have been there way too long:
Frozen bananas that have gone past their time,
and some old ice cream that neither of us like.
So here's the final look of our fridge.
Moving onto the bathroom, same routine:
First, declutter and put things back into their place.
Then I'm using my cleaning spray to wipe down all of the surfaces.
I'm also using that same designated sponge to clean our bathroom sink.
I thought it'd also be a good time to swap our toothbrushes out for new ones.
These are bamboo charcoal toothbrushes that I get on Amazon.
Now the sink area is done!
After that, I attempted to scrub the bathtub.
I don't think I did a great job, but I was like, "You know what? This is good enough."
In the bedroom, I'm just wiping down my mirror.
I recently cleaned my vanity area so I didn't feel like I needed to do it again.
Then Wilson came home and so we ended up doing laundry together.
Now, time for some final touches.
Here I'm burning sage for the first time.
The purpose of burning sage is to clear out old, negative energy in your home.
This is perfect for when you just move into a new place
or when you need to just refresh your space.
This was pretty fun to do and it reminded me of we did this with incense
at my mom's house when we first moved in.
You gotta wave the smoke in all the corners of your home just to ward off any bad juju.
Lastly, I'm going to diffuse my favorite essential oils to give my home
a soothing scent of lavender and eucalyptus.
That blend smells like a spa or yoga studio and I love it so much.
So now my home feels so much fresher, so much cleaner, so much more put together.
Alright, now I want to know: Are you in on this challenge?
If so, comment this sparkly emoji down below
so I know that you're planning to clean and tidy up your home this week.
And if you do make any posts about this challenge,
you can use the hashtag #GYLTchallenge.
So I will check those on Instagram and share a few that I like.
Look forward to next week's video where we're going to be tackling
getting your life together in your digital space,
meaning your emails, apps, files – organizing all of that, decluttering all of that.
So see you then!
Bye!