Month: January 2018

The Closet

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Today marks the day that I start working on the one place I’m afraid to even go near: my closet.

My closet is probably the worst part of my room, and the only clothes I get out of there anymore are the ones I have hanging on the door. A pile of Shopping Trip’s Past stands between me and my closet rod; just thinking about it makes me have a panic attack.

The pile in my closet began because my cat Coke (pictured above) would tear up plastic bags and anything in them. Eventually, I got into the habit of just throwing everything in there and closing the door. I used to be able to go in my closet and actually get dressed, but it’s gotten so bad that I can’t get past the doorway.

I will be armed with garbage bags and my Spotify playlist. I guess all that’s left is to get started!

Just the Beginning

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It is now 10 PM and I have finally stopped moving.

Instead of tackling my room, I took on the back bedroom with my mom between 2-8 PM. I was originally going to start cleaning off the top of my dresser, when I noticed I have a ton of earrings, necklaces and bracelets all over the place. That’s when I remembered all of my jewelry boxes in the back room.

I was almost positive that they were in this one box towards the front of the room… My certainty withered away, and I ended up going through five boxes until I finally found them. This took 6 hours to do, but we got a lot done.

The room started off looking like this:

Before - back room

Once I learned that the jewelry boxes were not where I thought they were, we dug into the room. After unpacking, throwing away and merging boxes and bins, I finally found what I was looking for! The room looked pretty decent, as well!

After - back room

It’s not a major improvement, there a lot left to sift through, but I feel like I accomplished something and I got to spend the day with my mom! We ended up with a full bag of recycling and trash, a few empty boxes, and two bags full of donations.

It was nice to clear out a lot of that stuff, and it wasn’t as overwhelming as I thought it would be. I have been putting off going through my stuff for years now, and I’m extremely happy that I finally sat down and did it!

The Game Plan

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I think I need to do this project in steps. I can’t just dive in and become some girly girl. I want to actually get something out of  this, so I’m going to do it properly. The tasks I have created for the first week of this year is to get organized!

My room is, for lack of a better word, a disaster. Every flat surface has a ton of random stuff on it, one section of my room is dedicated to the ever-growing Clothes Mountain, and my closet is a black hole where clothes go to die.

I think my goals for this week should be:

  1. Work my way through my closet until I can see my floor again.
  2. Organize my dresser.
  3. Demolish Clothes Mountain and utilize my closet and dresser.
  4. Go surface to surface and clean up.
  5. Throw out what I don’t need, and sell/donate items that are in good condition.

I will be keeping inventory of everything I go through so I can see just how much I have. This might take longer than a week, but it’s still early in the year, so I have time.

I know I have a lot of things, and one of the main goals I have is to get rid of a lot of it, but I can’t do that until I know what I actually have!

So, without further ado, let the games begin!