Get organized

Purging out the bedroom means I’ve got less stuff to store. The things under my bed are getting rather organized…

The best thing is, in getting rid of my unnecessary possessions, I’m finally starting to see what I need to organize everything else!

Working in the front room again more, today. I’m condensing a lot of the ‘random boxes’ that seem to house a lot of my stuff. Emptied two tubs and a laundry basket of clothes to get rid of. Sorted through more body/bath products to keep and get rid of.

Went through a lot of stuff under my bed, the costume boxes. I took out quite a few things I want to get rid of, going to pass them on to friends. I’m still clearing out way too much to organize, but I’m getting a lot of like stuff together right now.

Organized my room again, cleaned it, threw out a bunch of old stuff. Starting to get down there! I cleared out all of my dad’s stuff from the bottom of my closet (his Coke collectibles) and put my stuff back there. It now houses all my Power Rangers toys, shoes, extra blankets/pillows in one tub, two butterfly chairs and their covers, and a tub to hold all of my pants.

Doing pretty well!

Organized all of the papers around the desktop computer a few days ago. Tried getting rid of all of the crappy paper, but my father ‘claims’ that he uses scrap paper a lot, even though we have piles of it that I know he’ll never get around to using. But, whatever. I did what I could with it.

Got around to cleaning my room today. Threw out some stuff, swept. Going to try going through all of my drawers and shelves again. While I’m dusting, I hope I can talk myself out of a few things and start figuring out where stuff needs to go.

Alphabetized my bookshelf full of manga/video games. Finally recycled the cardboard boxes from my old Power Ranger toys. Straightened up my other bookshelf in my room (now to just get to the one downstairs. Hm.)

Went through a bunch of stuff in my bathroom and reorganized it from where it was messed up the other day.

Also went through my latest batch of magazine articles and threw out a ton.

Slowly making more progress.

Oh, you people would not believe how amazingly organized my bedroom is now. It looks AMAZING. Everything isn’t “perfect” like most people think it should be, and I still have a liiittle clutter, but it’s so easy to pack up everything and clear off my entire floor now. Just one or two things put away and I’m fine.

Also, moved my DVD/manga/video game case and TV stand to make it more convenient for me. Whoo.

The best motivation is to have a friend staying over and giving yourself enough time between now and then to clean. For two nights, I had people crashing in my room (a friend on the way to the airport and a friend coming up for the weekend and visiting). It was nice to have a completely clear floor for us to sit on.

Also, I have a small tub in front of my closet (too big to fit inside), that one of my posters (on a board) rests on top of. Inside the tub is a spare pillow, comforter, two throws, sheets, and small pillows, as well as a nearby beanbag chair. This is my bedding for my visiting friends, and I actually used up quite a bit of it! It’s very nice to have it right at hand though.

Veeeery happy with my progress in here. :D

(Unfortunately I still feel a need to complete my “buy a futon” goal soon so my friends don’t have to sleep on the floor, but I don’t have enough money!)

Working on organizing my closet again today. Getting rid of anything that is even slightly uncomfortable and then I’m going to take an inventory of what I have (shirts, dress shirts, jackets, etc) and what I have to get more of.

Went through my magazine articles and threw a bunch away, I just need to organize more of them now. Got all of my clothes off the floor and onto hangers to put in my closet, because I moved my costume pieces to another room (I have a lot of costumes for conventions in the area). Also need to go through my shoes later and get rid of what I don’t want.

Making progress!

My room has become a danger zone because I’m running out of room for all my clothes. Which is insane, considering the fact that I just got rid of half of my closet. Argh!

Fortunately, my bathroom and my file cabinet are rather organized. I have huge piles of magazine articles to go through that I just simply tore out to look at later on. So I can just plop them into the cabinet when I’m done.

I really need to start on sewing for next month at the convention I’m going to, and I also need to move my TV around to where I can easily access the bookshelf that my DVDs and video games are on. Clearing out general clutter.

Sigh. Here’s to hoping I can get to it.

Finally boxed up a bunch of clothes in the front room and threw away two boxes of patterns I’m never going to use. Moved everything against the wall and managed to fit all my clothes into my closet! Just need to go through my ties/belts/shoes later and figure out what I don’t want anymore. God, I hate my impulse purchases. ^^;;

Then I need to force myself to throw out the boxes of my “collectible” Power Ranger toys. I know I’m never putting them in a box again and it just takes up space. Just need to convince myself!