clean my room

Right now at the dorm my rooms gets messy, but its beginning to be only clothes and schools papers that get in the way. My room is very small, but everything has its place and once it gets put away, my room is normal again. One thing I do need to do however is finish with the newspapers that mom gave me. I can go through them at my leisure, which is not often so they do pile up. Since they are temporary, the only way I can keep them organized and out of the way is is a shopping bag. The rest of the papers I brought from home to organize are for the scrapbook. Now that they are sorted into a scrapbook pile, I need to separate them by year, track down stuff from the rest of each year, then purge by deciding what I actually want to go in my book.

Home -

• Continue putting craft things in the proper category box
• Get CD Stereo in car to pawn
• Continue boxing things I want to decorate with when I am married
• Put decorations for new room in a box away from everything else
• Put all vintage things for etsy out of the way in the closet
• Put cloud sheets and comforter on bed, after washing them
• Use the lavender side of silk coverlet on the bed
• Look at frames and start deciding how to decorate with each one
• Make sure to keep suitcases under bed for Will to use
• Bring pink sheets back to school to use

I’m sure there is plenty more, but this will keep me busy for more than Thanksgiving!

I went to my parents house 2 weeks ago and did some major cleaning out…

THREE huge black garbage bags are going to Goodwill!!
I also recycled a huge bag of paper.

I am so proud of myself.

The organizing I did:

-I put my Disney VHS tapes, Barbie dolls and clothes, and some other random games in a big plastic box. My mother doesn’t want me to get rid of them, so hopefully I have a little girl one day and the VHS player still works :)

-I have a Ukranian doll that my aunt and uncle gave me, which I put in her own separate plastic box along with her beautiful clothes. That is one unique gift that I will not part with.

-I went through all the boxes under my bed, recycled papers, got rid of junk, and found a few fun things that I had forgotten about.

-I made categories for my craft things and put them in boxes by category: Painting, Drawing, Beads/Jewelry Making, and Fabric/Ribbons.

-I took apart an old art project that I was not too fond of. At least, I didn’t like the whole thing. I plan to fix up parts of it and make it new. It was fairly large, so doing this cleared out my floor a little bit.

-I had a huge stack of newspaper and magazine articles to go through, so I took those back with me in my car to go through while I am in Tuscaloosa. Also, this was to get it out of my room, so I don’t have to deal with it next time I go home.

That’s all I can remember right now, but I think I did pretty well! :)

is harder than I thought. Will gave me his TV so now I have to figure out where I want it to go. The knick knacks are overwhelming but I think I will get it figured out. I get off work in about an hour so I am going back there to work on organizing some more.

I also have some ideas for my room at home. Mom said I could redecorate it for her so I am going to use some of my old picture frames and I am probably going to look through the pictures in the computer room that are just waiting to go up on the wall somewhere. I’m thinking of a beachy theme but who knows what it will turn out to be! I’m pretty excited but I must focus on school for now.

literally. I took everything out of my room and gave away all the furniture except for the desk and bookshelf. The desk went home and the bookshelf is going to my dorm room. I can’t move into the dorm until the 8th, so I’m staying at a friend’s house until then. I’m thinking that once I get settled in to my dorm room, I can get everything situated and maybe even give away some more stuff. I’m definitely downsizing, even if I dont need to.

So, when I get into the dorm, if there are any more knick knacks to go through I need to do deal with them as I find them. Make a place for them or throw them away immediately, or else they will never be looked at once I get busy with school again.

Next step is to clean out my room at home. My mom is probably going to turn it into her craft room or something and I know she wont go through my junk. It would just stay there forever and ever because she never throws anything away. I dont want to fuel her packrat tendencies. I’m already trying to get ahold of mine.

I’m going to use one of my empty moving boxes to pack up my old barbie dolls and disney movies so that some child in my life whether my own in the future or someone elses can use. I would probably have given them away by now if it weren’t for mom telling me I needed to keep them. I’m glad Will is picky because I don’t need someone else like my mom encouraging me to keep stuff I’m considering giving away!

which is even more motivation to get rid of my clutter. I don’t want to move to a new place carrying a bunch of boxes full of crap. That’s too much work for nothing.

I scheduled the thrift store to come pick up my mattress and box springs and my dresser on Tuesday. As far as furniture, that leaves my desk and bookshelf, the first I will take home and the latter will go with me to the dorm.

I bought moving boxes, one each for desk/school supplies, cleaning supplies, books and movies, decorations, dishes, etc. It’s nice knowing that most of the stuff in my apartment is my roommates and I won’t have to be moving that stuff.

I have a filing system for my scrapbook stuff and important papers. In this way I’ve downsized on paper clutter.

I’m still going through everything, but I have some more stuff in my trunk to take to the thrift store as well.

I’m moving to a new place at the end of the month and I’m tired of moving from place to place with the random knick knacks that I have attained while in college.

I cleaned out my junk drawer, decided what to use for crafts and what to give to the thrift store. Those were the only two categories I used, which forced me to be picky. I took three shopping bags to the thrift store and I was very proud of that. My room is still a mess, but half of the stuff will be given away at some point, so they are in organized boxes.

I’ll be glad when I can arrange my room without any extra clutter to stuff somewhere.

I actually have 2 rooms, one in my apartment at college and another at my parent’s house. Both are cluttered, the one at home the worst. Its coming along slowly but surely. I’ve gone through my closets and decided on things to get rid of, but they just have to get sold on ebay.

I am a scrapbooker, which contributes to a lot of the clutter. I want to come up with a filing system to handle my keepsakes better before they get put in a book.

I have a small filing holder that I am going to use for the important stuff like bills, bank statements, or whatever.

I need to sell my 5 cd player stereo… if you’re interested let me know.

This is a lot more than just organizing a room, its getting rid of things that have collected for the 18 years that I lived at home.

I have to make this a defined goal, so I aim to finish removing the clutter from my life by May 2010, the month that I graduate college and one month before my wedding. If I can get rid of things I no longer need, I can start fresh when I am married.