Okay, so this week (with the much-appreciated help of my niece Rachel) I've tackled my own personal dungeon . . . my office. Every other room in the house is used on a daily basis, so it's fairly natural that extra things get tossed into the office. It's where the majority of books in our house live, along with homeschooling stuff, art supplies, all my scrapbooking stuff, file cabinets, memorabilia, photo albums, Scout stuff, church papers, and many other random things that we didn't have a home for.
In other words . . . it looked like this:
The floor had so much stuff piled on it that you had to sort of hop over them to get anywhere:
and my desk was piled so high that there was no WAY I was going to go in there and create:
Pretty scary, huh? There's a reason I called in for outside help!
Rachel did a couple of posts about the process here (including a really hilarious one about the Evil White Shelf). However, I'm just going to show what the happy ending looks like:
See this? It's an EMPTY FLOOR!!! I'd almost forgotten what it looked like! (;
We moved a shelf across the room and got all the books into one place and in better order.
We used the other shelf for supplies and scout stuff and random things, and Rachel even (gasp) cleaned out the Closet of Never-ending Stuff! I had a lot of cards from a long time ago, and Rachel had the great idea of hanging them where I can see them. More happiness!
We framed and hung up a couple of my favorite records from my childhood. They make me happy. (:
Here is the Beautiful Shiny Desk of Emptiness. Ahhhh . . .
Here is a tired but happy Rachel . . .
AND, for extra bonus points (okay, with a significant amount of parental pressure), the boys cleaned up their floor, too! Hooray!
What was so cool about this particular cleaning job is that we actually went through every. single. box. No kidding. We weeded through scout papers, church papers, school papers, and consolidated them into one (relatively) small area and out of the cardboard boxes they were in. Lots of trash and recycling went out this week!
I also have lots of boxes in my garage of things I'll be giving away. Anyone need some scrapbook/craft/who-kn0ws-what stuff? (:
In other words . . . it looked like this:
The floor had so much stuff piled on it that you had to sort of hop over them to get anywhere:
and my desk was piled so high that there was no WAY I was going to go in there and create:
Pretty scary, huh? There's a reason I called in for outside help!
Rachel did a couple of posts about the process here (including a really hilarious one about the Evil White Shelf). However, I'm just going to show what the happy ending looks like:
See this? It's an EMPTY FLOOR!!! I'd almost forgotten what it looked like! (;
We moved a shelf across the room and got all the books into one place and in better order.
We used the other shelf for supplies and scout stuff and random things, and Rachel even (gasp) cleaned out the Closet of Never-ending Stuff! I had a lot of cards from a long time ago, and Rachel had the great idea of hanging them where I can see them. More happiness!
We framed and hung up a couple of my favorite records from my childhood. They make me happy. (:
Here is the Beautiful Shiny Desk of Emptiness. Ahhhh . . .
Here is a tired but happy Rachel . . .
AND, for extra bonus points (okay, with a significant amount of parental pressure), the boys cleaned up their floor, too! Hooray!
What was so cool about this particular cleaning job is that we actually went through every. single. box. No kidding. We weeded through scout papers, church papers, school papers, and consolidated them into one (relatively) small area and out of the cardboard boxes they were in. Lots of trash and recycling went out this week!
I also have lots of boxes in my garage of things I'll be giving away. Anyone need some scrapbook/craft/who-kn0ws-what stuff? (:
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Great Job!! You have a super friend.