organize my room

I want to have a walk-in closet set up and a giant chalkboard and my paintings hung and and and… xD

FlyLady.net seems like a great tool to help me achieve this!

The wall paper is all ripped and there is junk all over the bedroom floor.
Its so gross.

I haven’t got any money to re-decorate at the moment so i will have to stick with just cleaning which is fine by me as i plan to move out as soon as i get a job..

I’m still working on this goal! I had my room in pretty good shape two months ago, and then it went all crazy again right before vacation, and it still hasn’t recovered.

I need to do another yard sale, though, and now is the perfect time to get organize.

Step 1. Put all clothes away. I have this really bad habit of washing everything I own and then multitasking during loads, forgetting that I still need to fold and put clothes away. So, right now I have a crazy mound of clothes spanning 2/3 of my room. Crazy.

Step 2. No, I think the put stuff away will be all I can handle today. I have choir practice tonight, so I won’t be home until late, and I need to wake up early.

This weekend I organized the top drawer of my nightstand, which was pretty messy. I placed three smaller boxes in it, to work as “compartments” inside the drawer. Then I separated whatever items I feel I need to have in that drawer by categories, one category per box.

It looks neat, and it’s functional, too! No more going through everything in the drawer each time I need to find a pen or my chapstick.

I’ve been putting love letters, random thoughts on paper etc into a drawer. Today I started organizing that drawer. It was like a time machine, some of the papers made me travel to very painful or happy moments of my past. I’m glad I started organizing this mess, I imagine that the energy of all that clutter is not healthy for me. I even managed to burn some of the papers that couldn’t be recycled, but the task I have in front of me seems overwhelming.

I organized my bathroom today, it’s a start. And I did a darn good job, too!

The bathroom may be considered a part of the room, as I have my own suite. One cannot go into the bathroom without going through the room, that makes it part of the room. Kind of :p

Apparently I don’t have time for the simplest things anymore. Or I don’t have the energy perhaps. Time is slipping away out of my hands and I end up at night feeling guilty for not taking a stronger grasp of it. Meanwhile things keep accumulating, one on top of the other and they refuse to take their place until I place them there.

As everything else, there’s no magical way to make it all ok, so it needs to be one step at a time. Sighs

I did this yersterday but am not 100% completed yet.

I secretly hate coming home because the room I rent is a disaster! It really is the worst/messiest room I’ve ever had in my entire life. Most likely due to the following reasons:

A. I’m lazy- never put away my clothes/papers/books/make up, leave everything in heaps/scattered on every flat surface (bed/desk/ floor/bed)
B. The room is really SMALL! I have a twin size bed on one side, a full size desk on the other side and there isn’t even enough space between them to do the splits. so sad =(

I really want to move into a bigger place but I still need to clean up this place first! Can’t show it if it’s a great big jumble of my belongings.

So TODAY I am CLEANING MY ROOM!
A. Laundry- washing everything (clothes/bed linen/towels) since I don’t know what’s clean and what’s not since everything is in a huge heap on the floor. Putting my fresh clothes/linens in their proper place- my closet!
B. Vacuuming the carpet
C. Dusting my desk/shelves/blinds- yay for lavender scented swifter cloths! If I get really ambitious I may even wipe down my walls…
D. Throwing out all the junk/trash/old stuff
E. Moving my toiletries to their proper homes in the bathroom!
F. Going through all my school work/supplies/etc

I’m off from work today so this is going to get done! I refuse to leave the house before this is complete. I’m already excited to finish this and begin enjoying a super clean/fresh smelling/slightly more spacious room =)