organize my room

the closet is looking pretty good. The clothes are dealt with, and I’m down to one shelf of unsorted stuff. 2 empty shelves! Woot!

My computer desk is clean, and I have a second area in my room that can be used for study space.

I’d prefer to do more shuffling of stuff from bookshelves to the closet, and organize the books further, but I’ve achieved usable space, which I’ll call good enough for now while I work on other things.

once the clothes are finished, it will be easier to deal with the rest of the closet.

-go through unmarked boxes
-throw out old shoes I never use
-organize shelves

More progress on the clothes project. I went through all the clothes that were on the floor and in bins in my closet. I have 3 big bags of stuff to give away, and I washed the rest!

To finish:
-put away 2 more baskets full of clean clothes
-go through the clothes on my top shelf
-get the giveaway clothes out of here
-put winter clothes and any other “special use” clothes in MARKED bins in the closet so that it’s easier to get to the stuff I use more often
-go through the basket of stained/torn/whatever clothes and either fix them or throw them out
-wash and put away the few handwash-only items.

I now have one big bin of clothes to wash and one big bin of clothes to give away from my closet. (and still a big pile on the floor to go through, plus everything that’s “put away” (though that has a lower priority)). I’d like to go through all the boxes in there, but for the moment just having them stacked and having the clothes out of the way will be improvement.

My computer desk is usable (woot!). I even cleaned out the drawers.

I went through my sex toys and threw out anything I never use, washed all the things I wanted to keep and put them back.

I put one stack of files into the new file box – there’s another stack of papers in the closet that needs to be dealt with.

I have little piles of things sorted by where they need to end up in the house.

The next thing I need to do is clean off the shelves above my computer desk, then tackle the closet.

1. sort through the boxes of “stuff that has been thrown in boxes to get it out of the way”.
2. likewise, any drawers or bookshelves that have collected the same category of stuff
3. go through my clothes and get rid of anything I’ll never wear again.
4. make a pile of clothes that need to be repaired or cleaned and actually do something with it.
5. box up any clothes that don’t fit but that I actually believe I’ll wear when they do.
6. organize the clothes that are left in a useful fashion.
7. get another file box for important papers.
8. go through the closet and throw out crap.
9. move anything that’s in “long-term storage” mode to the basement closet (there’s a wooden platform that keeps things in there from getting wet if it floods)
10. move things from the room to the closet if I don’t use them and/or enjoy looking at them.
11. try not to get discouraged by the fact that my house will always be overrun with the housemate’s stuff no matter how much of my own stuff I get rid of or organize.

I might divide this into a bunch of smaller tasks later, because it looks so big as one item.