Organize and de-clutter my house room by room

waiting to go to the goodwill. They just opened a new Goodwill even closer to me too =)

When I drop off the box, I can get a new book as my reward too, which is nice, because I haven’t gotten one in over a month. I keep bringing stuff out and there doesn’t seem to be a dent. I need to seriously consider weeding out my closet, it’s the worst offender.

I mean this in the literal and figuritive sense!

I’m making a box to go to Goodwill, and I passed on the good news about decluttering to my mom (who taught me all my bad clutter habits!)

I’m down to just three moving boxes left and almost everything has found a place.

I read over the Fly Lady site, and her suggestion about doing some small cleaning every day. I washed the five dishes in sink and moved the products that pile up ont he bathroom sink back to their places in the medicine chest. It wasn’t a big deal, but I looked at it afterwards and felt really good about it.

So this morning (okay I work nights so this morning was really 1 PM) when I got out of bed, I flirted with the idea of making my bed. I never ever even as a kid made my bed. So I did. It took about four seconds to adjust the sheet and summer blanket, and boom another glow of achievement. I wrote out checks for my utility bills, and threw out the newspaper that I didn’t need.

Now I can sit on my couch again. That’s a huge help. This got me going. I began to reorder the kitchen. I don’t know if the baking goods or the pantry is going under the counter, but one of them will. The tiny kitchen is at least orderly. There’s still clutter all over every flat surface in the living room, and my clothes are in desperate need of baskets to organise, but things look at least a little better. YAY!

See Decorate my apartment.

Only three moving boxes left to put somewhere provided I take the clothing out of the boxes they are in inside my newly constructed closet. I love baskets for storage especially since I put things that are generally in drawers on shelves.

The one thing moving has taught me is – everything takes up space. So many things I thought had nothing to do with the cluter in my old space, now seeing the difference between the apartment with nearly nothing and the apartment now tells me that I have too much. I’m going to need to do some giving away. Clothing is a major part of it, but so are the things just items I like very much but don’t use. Loving something isn’t enough of a reason to hang on to it. Someone who loves it and can use it deserves it.