get my house tidied (and keep it that way)

Poor Aislinnv, she’s had to put up with her office piled with all sorts of non-office stuff for years. She’s even been using the old kitchen cupboards I never got around to throwing out as some bookshelves.

Last weekend saw bin bags entering the room. Twelve hours later the recyling bin is full to overflowing and the room has become a nice place to be; books on real shelves, entertainment from a nice music mini-system that previously was waiting for a purpose.

It was all worth it … but there are still more rooms to do… I can see this goal being achieved really, really soon!

Well, the bedroom is finally getting organised. There are now wardrobes in it. This means that instead of all the clothes being vaguely folded up and stuffed on open shelves, they can actually be hung up, or put away in proper drawers. Behind doors, so that even if the contents of the wardrobe are a mess (they won’t be. Honestly!), the room itself shouldn’t be.
Next step: bookcases. Lots and lots of shelves to put the many books I have on. Maybe I’ll even go so far as to alphabetize them…

I should think the house is going to be a little tidier today since I have a helper doing the tidying whilst I work. I might help a little too.

Maybe if I break this down and do one small thing at a time, I’ll get there in the end. So, to help with this, I’ve added a new goal to my list – toss those old magazines. There are a few piles of old magaines in various places. So I will try to get rid of them. Stick some in a bag, walk round to paper recycling point, toss magazines. Repeat until no more magazine piles.

I’m messy. The person I live with is messy. Bits of the house get tidied – then they get messy again. I think I need to take a week off work and just get things organized.