organize the apartment

We’ll be moving in October, and at this point I don’t care how this apartment looks. I’m going to replace this goal with one about decluttering and throwing/giving things away, or something.

I just need to clean out the refrigerator and freezer (I’m afraid of what I might find – I hate wasting food), and put all baking-related items in one spot so that I can stop spending 10 minutes searching for baking soda every time I make something.
Paperwork is next. I borrowed my parents shredder, and I can’t wait to let that thing loose on bank statements from 2003.

Today I cleaned and organized the stuff under the kitchen sink. Slowly getting there…

My apartment is ridiculously messy. It’s not that it’s dirty, it just has stuff everywhere…mail is opened and thrown in one of five different places, bills stay scattered after we’ve paid them (and the ones we need to pay we can never find), shoes get lost, the bathroom sink is obscured by makeup and lotions and hair products, and my wedding photos have been waiting on a sad little disc; they need to be in some sort of album. And books: books are everywhere. They need shelves.
I’m going to try to break it into steps so that I don’t get overwhelmed:

Organize the bedroom closet
Put wedding photos in some sort of album/scrapbook; maybe frame one
Organize recipes so that I can finally find the ones I need
Implement a new filing method for bills and shred the old/unnecessary ones
Go through ALL the paper work in my desk and organize it somehow
Bathroom: maybe get some plastic organizer things, so I can keep all that junk under the sink
Encourage (pressure) my husband to keep his desk clean
Get rid of clothes I won’t wear and organize drawers
Put up more shelves, so that all the books have a place to go
Get some magazine holders (do they have a name?) for the magazines I can’t get rid of
-Clean out under the sink, and make a spot there for recyclables-
Put medical bills/info all in one place

And while I’m at it:
Delete all the old documents I don’t need anymore from my laptop
Organize and fix the little mistakes on my ipod

That should do it.