a week of thanksGIVING!!!! a giveaway from the egg-celent margaret

Margaret and this cleanmama have been friends since before we were compulsive cleaners, since the time where we told our mothers "why do I have to clean my room, no one is going to see it?". She's been here for my bad girl days and my good girl days and the days mommy and wife-y busyness. I am so excited to feature her and her amazing business on the b-log! So, WHO WANTS TO WIN?!?!?!?!

Hello! My name is Margaret and I am a 24 year old wife, student, and home business owner. I have a small business making Christmas ornaments out of real eggs, am a full time anthropology student, and also sell Scentsy.

Currently, my husband and I live with my parents and younger brother since we recently moved to California from Missouri. I am, admittedly, very OCD about cleaning and living in a house with a 12 year old boy isn’t always easy. I do a lot of the household cleaning and tidying as a way of saying “Thank You” to my parents for letting us live here rent-free for as long as we need to.

I have found that having a regular cleaning schedule is the easiest way for me to stay on top of cleaning this household of five. Most of the day is dedicated to doing homework and, recently, to making egg ornaments, but Fridays are my deep cleaning days. It helps me to relax about the small stuff throughout the rest of the week. On Fridays I vacuum the whole house, dust, and clean the bathrooms. As any of you with boys in the house know—boys are messy bathroom-users, and being OCD made it hard for me to deal with that. But, now I know that on Fridays all the small, cumulative messes of the week are going to get cleaned and it lets me focus on other things the rest of the week.
Also, since we all know there are messes that can’t wait for Friday, I make sure to clean the rest of the stuff as it happens! Dishes get done immediately after dinner which saves me time having to scrub dried food from them later. Counters get wiped down and the stove gets a good once-over. My brother takes out the trash after I am done cleaning the kitchen and everyone is free to do their thing within 20 minutes of dinner being done. The dishwasher gets started when I get up in the morning and gets emptied at 3 pm every day. Simply put, having a schedule has saved me from myself. I know I don’t have to worry about cleaning all the time because there is a time for that and the rest of the day is for more important things!
Your readers can check out my “Egg-cellent” Christmas ornaments (teeheehee) on my Etsy page:  and can get a 20% discount on any order of 2 or more ornaments by sharing it on their Twitter or Facebook and sending me an email to margaretmedill@yahoo.com.

I will also be giving away a personalized ornament in a random drawing of those who email me!
All the ornaments are handmade by me and my Etsy page is more or less a sample—I like to make them special for each person and can make them in all kinds of colors and with names or whatnot.

giveaway ends 9:00pm PST 11/25/11

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and thanks for reading!