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31 days

31 days – fall 2013 – cleaning schedule

Rachel Atwell2 Comments

During our first week at home, I decided that cleaning should be my responsibility. After all, I didn’t want to ask G to clean toilets after he had worked for 10+ hours and I had, well, watched six episodes of The Office.

Instead of wondering when the last time I vacuumed, I decided to work off of a little sheet I found on Pinterest. What can I say… a to do list makes everything better, especially when it’s prettier to look at it!

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Some days I decide to double up, but usually that’s only because I’ve skipped something the day before.  And psst, don’t tell anyone but I only do the baseboards that don’t have furniture in front of them.

The best part of this list is that in our size apartment, if I do this every week, it usually only takes about 15-30 minutes a day.

What are ways that you make cleaning easier?

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31 days

31 days – fall 2013 – home life

Rachel Atwell1 Comment

A wise man once said, “With great power comes great responsibility”.

Actually that was Peter Parker {aka SPIDERMAN} who said that, sooooo… let’s just start this over.

Being a new wife comes with lots of responsibility.  Establishing a comfortable and easy home life for my husband is one of my top priorities right now.

home life | Atwell AdventuresThese past few months I’ve had the opportunity to be a stay at home wife, so I’ve had lots of time to figure out easier ways to do things if/when I go back to work after our move this December.

And I can’t wait to share some of those with you these next few days!

31 days - newlyweds | Atwell Adventures

Around the House

dirty laundry

Rachel Atwell4 Comments

No, not that kind of dirty laundry. Maybe I’ll post about that eventually.  Today we are talking about the adventure of laundry day, which I must say is definitely not as fun as our ziplining in St. Lucia.

{Dear future Rachel: when you read this and have a job, children, and more than one bed in your house, please don’t hate newly-wed Rachel for complaining about three loads of laundry.}

If you follow me on instagram, twitter, or facebook, then yesterday you might have seen what part of my Monday schedule includes – lots of quarters.  Thirty-six to be exact – and all in the name of laundry.

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We considered purchasing a washer and dryer for our apartment before we got married but when we thought about the cost and having to move it, we decided not to. And now every Monday’s I wonder why {just kidding, G, I’m being dramatic, sort of}.

My pre-game routine goes a little something like this:

  1. Find shorts and tank top. {The laundry room at our apartment complex becomes a heat chamber by the end of three dryer cycles, so tshirt and jeans will not work on laundry day.}
  2. Pull linens off the bed. {Also pray that it isn’t time to wash the duvet cover.}
  3. Grab towels from the bathrooms and kitchen.
  4. Merge our dirty clothes into one basket.  {This is the hardest step for me, especially when I find a certain someone’s workout shirt that is still sweaty – gag – next to my clothes. I still love you, G.}

Then it’s off to the laundry room with three large baskets, detergent, oxy clean and dryer sheets.  Did I mention sometimes I spill things when I get there?

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The next two hours involve a thirty minute wash {do things REALLY get clean in thirty minutes???}, searching for the dryer sheets {once they were the linens that I washed: FAIL}, an hour long dry to make the room approximately 130°, throwing things back into the baskets, and heading home for folding {the first week I tried folding in the 130° room and started almost passed out by the third fold}.

Then I take a whole week to black out the memories of the process and then its wash, rinse, repeat all over again.