Flylady Part II

I really did not feel like cleaning today but I promised and my house needs a good cleaning!

I’ve been looking at the flylady beginner steps and skipped a few since they mainly just talked about getting dressed and such. I get dressed most of the time but when you work at home it’s just too tempting to work in your p.j’s especially when you are sick like I am at the moment! – see just broke a rule and I haven’t even started yet.

Ok so today I’m jumping ahead to clean the Hot Spot. Here is what www.flylady.net says about Hot Spots:

A Hot Spot is an area, when left unattended will gradually take over. My favorite analogy is of a hot spot in a forest fire, if left alone it will eventually get out of hand and burn up the whole forest. This is what happens in our homes. If left unattended, the hot spot will grow and take over the whole room as well as making the house look awful. When you walk into a room, the hot spot is the first thing you see. Your eyes are locked on it. Over the years my hot spot has migrated. As a child it was a chair in my bedroom. I would pile it to the ceiling. Right now I have two hot spots in my home: the dining room table and the bed in the extra bedroom. The dining room table is a staging area. We put the unopened mail there, as well as any thing that needs to go to the basement. Some times you cannot see the top of the table. This is the first thing I see when I walk into the kitchen. Granted, the pile has only been there since last night, but if I don't deal with it first thing in the morning, it will collect many more items by evening. CLUTTER ATTRACTS CLUTTER. The Bed in the extra bed room is just the same. I use it as a place to put things that don't have a home. Do you have areas like this that continue to grow if left alone? Does the rest of the family see this as a place to put things when they do not want to put them where they belong? It is our job to NIP this in the bud. Get rid of that pile, find the surface underneath, and stop the Hot Spot from becoming a raging Clutter inferno! – FlyLady

So the hot spot at our house is called the kitchen counter top. I swear I’ll clean it and within 24 hours it will look cluttered again. But I’ve put off cleaning the counter for over the past week so it’s looking really really really bad and it has to be done!

So here is the before pic - told you it was bad!

And here is the after:

Amazing!!!!!

Look I even cleaned the sink!!!

Look I even cleaned my living room!

Ok, maybe I didn't do that. lol

Actually that pic was from earlier today and I have picked up Jeff’s toys.

Are you doing flylady? What are some of your Hot Spots?