organize my stuff

Part 3 is as far as I’m willing to think today.

Books. I love them, but when you get up for work at 5:30 every single morning (I thought I was a morning person, but now it’s been two months and I’m ready for a slow down. Of course, I just put in my two weeks’ notice!) and get home at 5 where you have either worship practice that you’re in charge of, or Bible Study, or some other appointment, and in any free time you just want to play a computer game and go to bed between 8 and 9, you don’t have a lot of time to read!

My goal is to read every book I own and get rid of the ones I don’t like. A lot of my books are in storage right now (I think) so the small pile currently in my room is not too intimidating.

Anyway, I’m tired of typing about organizing – I want to actually do it!

Goodbye!

Part 1 was clothes. Part 2 is simply a strategic placement of the garbage can.

Garbage goes IN THE GARBAGE CAN!
When the garbage can is full, it gets EMPTIED!
I need a place to stash 10 extra garbage bags at a time so I won’t run out.

I blow my nose a lot, usually while sitting or laying on my bed, and I always throw the Kleenexes down around my bed. If I were going to clean them up in the morning, this would be fine, but I am lucky if I get around to cleaning my room just once in a week. After I start taking care of the clothes, I’m taking care of GARBAGE!

I predict that the combined elimination of clothing clutter and trash clutter will reduce room clutter by at leasxt 50%.

My room is a pigsty.

I need to do laundry.
Figure out what clothes I don’t want.
Go shopping for clothes I need.

Then, I need to start the following habits:

Change clothes only in my room.
If they’re not dirty after I wear them, they get HUNG BACK UP.
If they’re dirty, they go in the laundry basket.
When the laundry basket gets full, I wash a load of clothes!

This should be simple.

I predict that if this happens, it will cut down on at least 30% of room clutter. It will also help me not to have an embarrassingly small amount of clothes. I’ll be able to pick what I want to wear in the morning instead of picking what’s probably clean. I should also end up doing less laundry because I believe the philosophy that clothes are not completely unwearably dirty after being worn for 1 day, and if I wouldn’t just throw my clothes on the floor, I’d probably rewear them that week!

Eventually I’d like to set up a system of buying clothes. I don’t want to spend very much, and I know I wouldn’t if I just had a solid wardrobe to choose from. I’d like to have it down to buying one clothing item every month.