clean my room so I can see my floor and walk on it

My mom came over and helped me move all my clutter into the spare room. Now I can nearly see all of my floor. Tomorrow I’m going to vacuum my entire room and then I can start work on decluttering all my crap, now that it’s spread out on the spare room floor and I can see it all. Slowly but surely. Please send me lots of decluttering thoughts! :)

My room already looks really empty now that I don’t have to leap over a pile of junk to get to my bed. Imagine how bare it’ll look once I get that huge pile in the corner gone!

Lots of cleaning and decluttering. :)

Plus, my friend from Argentina is coming to visit in December, so I have to get it done!

Breaking it down.

• “garbage can” area
• tv stand
• other side of tv stand
• in front of closet
• CLOSET
• storage box 1
• storage box 2
• storage box 3
• file box
• laundry basket
• in front of the window
• makeup stand
• side wall by makeup stand
• night table 1
• under the bed
• night table 2
• beside the dresser
• end of the bed
• in front of the dresser
• top of the dresser

One box gone.
DVD’s put neatly (and alphabetically!) in rack.
One bag of garbage filled.
One bag of shredded paper.

Sigh.

So since I’ve been at sea for the past six months and my mom just moved, she took all my stuff and just put it in my room. I have SO MUCH STUFF. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I don’t need this much stuff; I lived for six months out of two suitcases. I need to downsize. I can’t deal with all this STUFF everywhere.

It definitely takes having company over to kick your butt into gear! It’s not perfect yet, but at least you can see the floor!

Due to a threat from my mother that she would start throwing out my things if I didn’t get my room clean (I’m 24, by the way… this is how bad the situation has gotten), I have to get this done.

It’s not just my mom though; to be perfectly honest, it’s getting ridiculous in here. I dropped a bagel, butter-side down, on my laptop today because I tripped over all the junk on the floor. This is how bad it’s gotten.

• clean off the top of my desk
• pick up all clothes off the floor; hang up/put away
• dust shelves
• vacuum floor
• open the window/air out room
• clean off/dust my nighttable
• reorganize my bookshelf
• massive pile of laundry

• side of bed
• foot of bed
• in front of bookshelf

Jeez… when I re-read this list, it makes me seem like a really disgusting pig. I’m honestly not. :(

This is going to be so hard. But I have to do this. I’m going to go crazy otherwise.