As my day comes to a close, I got about three baskets of laundry done.
I don’t really have much else to report. I feel like I have another day or two of laundry before I get everything sorted away.
I’m proud and extremely tired from running up and down the stairs.
Tomorrow is another day! I can’t wait to be done with this and move onto the next part of my project!
Well, today’s the day I reveal my greatest shame… Clothes Mountain.
This pile of shirts, socks, pants… and a couple of towels does get clean, I just never put any of it away and it is now a combination of clean and dirty. Starting today, I am going to be washing all of it.
My plan is to fill my duffel bag with clothes from a laundry basket and bring both the duffel and the basket down to the laundry room. Then, I will sort through everything, and start washing. When one load goes in, I will go back to my room to collect more clothes. Once everything is clean and has gone through the dryer, it will be folded and put into the laundry basket. This process will be repeated until all of my clothes are clean.
I don’t know how long this will take, but it’s getting done no matter what. After everything is clean, I will decide what stays, what get thrown out and what gets donated.
It is now 4 PM, and I’ve put this off long enough!
In only an hour, I cleaned up my entire dresser! The top is now semi-organized, and the drawers are in better shape.
The dresser is a work in progress, and the items will continue to be moved around one I do all my laundry and make a plan for where everything needs to go.
A lot of the trash, once again, was a bunch of bags, and various clothing tags that I’ve collected over the years. I found move jewelry, and a few cards and notes from my grandmother.
Tomorrow starts the first day of demolishing Clothes Mountain and finally getting the laundry baskets out of my room. I’m hoping to get rid of a lot of my old clothes, but I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
Cleaning isn’t hard, it’s just repetitive and tiring. I’m starting to enjoy doing this, and I can’t wait for it to be done!
Now that it’s 12 PM and I woke up about 10 minutes ago, I think I should start working on my dresser.
Currently, the top couldn’t possibly have anymore random items, and the drawers are filled. I remember back when I originally set up all the drawers and it was so clean and neat…. now it’s a disaster, but that’s going to change!
This should be the easiest to clean out everything, because I just need to go drawer to drawer and straighten things up. I’m actually really looking forward to today. I didn’t realize until the past few days that cleaning isn’t actually a terrible thing, and it’s making me feel better about myself.
After today, nothing will be standing between me and Clothes Mountain. I feel like Clothes Mountain is going to take a couple of days, and a lot of laundry detergent and fabric softener!
I really don’t know what else to say about this. I’m excited that I will get to start my number one goal soon, so then I can finally start writing and talking about something other than cleaning!
Until then, I better get going and start cleaning!
Today, I set out to clean my closet and I did it! There’s still a couple of small boxes in there I have to go through, but I can actually walk in there now and begin to organize my clothes.
I found a lot of interesting things during my closet adventure:
and finally… the floor! I found the floor! I forgot how spacious my closet was.
Now that my closet is clean and tidy, I can take on my dresser and start doing laundry for the next week (I do have clean clothes, but I have more that need to be washed). After everything is in its place, and I’ve gotten rid of the stuff I no longer use or need, I can finally start on my main goal: to become more feminine.
I feel accomplished, and I’m extremely proud of myself. I spent about 2 hours this morning just staring at the door, dreading the thought of even entering that space, and now all I want to do is keep going and re-discover my forgotten treasures!
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!
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:
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!
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!
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:
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!
It’s around 6:30 PM EST on New Year’s Eve, and I have been in my pajamas all day.
As some of us already know, 2017 was a bit of a shit show; not much we can do about it. Some years are good, some are bad, and others just pass us by.
One thing that people like to kick off the new year with is a New Year’s Resolution. Like a lot of these people, I stay strong for about a week, before giving up and going back to my regular routine. To the people out there that are strong enough to go to the gym every morning and do something new everyday, I applaude you. To those who say they did that stuff, I understand you.
For 2018, I’m going to try again, but it’s going to be more of a challenge. This year, I decided that I’m going to become more girly. My boyfriend recently pointed out to me that I have too much makeup (I have close to 300 bottles of nail polish and I rarely paint my nails). From a drawer full of foundations and primers, to a vanity covered in eye shadow palettes, eyeliner, and countless tubes of mascara, I think it’s about time I start doing my makeup… well, learn how to do it, and then do it every single day. I will also, be learning how to do my hair. I’m 22 years old and my mom still curls my hair for me; I can’t figure out curling irons for the life of me.
Moving on to my closet, it’s also full of things I don’t usually use: dresses, skirts, shoes, and a bunch of purses. So after doing my hair and makeup, I will get dressed to the nines to sit at my desk and do school work.
Why am I doing this? I’m one of those people who needs change, and my life needs a routine, so why not spend 5 hours in the morning transforming myself?
That lovely lady right there is me. I am sporting an orange Billabong long-sleeved shirt. My hair is done in the “I ran a brush through it yesterday and I don’t know how to make it look good” style. No makeup, no nail polish…
I definitely have my work cut out for me
Also, because school, work, and now this project won’t be enough to fill my days, I will also be exercising, drinking more water, and getting the right amount of sleep…
Here’s to 2018!
The Change 