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This idea also came at a time when they had just suggested a title for the book that I wasn’t particularly excited about either, so I wasn’t really the happiest of campers.

2015 was a pretty great year for cleaning and organizing around here, so I thought it might be fun to look back on a few of my most popular posts from that category from the last year and maybe gain a little inspiration and a little extra motivation for the year ahead!If you missed any of these posts last year, now’s your chance to check them out and maybe add some of these tips to your housekeeping bag of tricks for 2016!.

How to clean your microwave naturally with no scrubbing!.The right way to mop your floors.How to actually use all of those vacuum cleaner attachments!.

DIY mercury glass mason jar air freshener.The simplest and most straightforward closet organization ideas.

Do you have a favorite cleaning and organizing trick that you learned in 2015?

What kinds of things would you like to see me write more about in 2016?Renovating a bathroom is kind of an amazing experience.The counter top for the beverage center as well as the skirting around the top came from some of the siding that has been blown off.

Actually, that siding has been used in quite a few projects around here, and also in the homes of a lot of the neighbors.It’s become kind of a community-use barn around here.

So we made our plan, gathered our barn wood, and then we got to building!We had to get this whole project completed in less than a weekend and I would say that, for the most part, a project like this would be considered a pretty reasonable thing to aim to accomplish in a weekend.