The lovely weekend has approached me rather quickly. With a mound full of things to do on my to do list, I debate on what I should do first. I look at the basement, and ponder the idea of working on cleaning out my storage room first. Since it’s so full of stuff and junk I need to go through, and thought that it might take me the longest to do this, I better get cracking on this first. With absolutely, no help at all from my hubby, I had to attack this project all on my own.
Storage room: the before photo:
Storage room: the before photo:
As Saturday rolls around, I begin working on clearing out all this clutter. At about 6:00 p.m. in the evening I start this adventure. As I start to look at the stuff I say to myself, where do I start? I couldn’t even move around the floor, as there’s so much crap in the way, and I can’t even get to where I want to start.
So, first I start by clearing off one rack at a time, one shelf at a time. I tried to organize it by holiday stuff. Halloween stuff on one shelf, Christmas stuff on another shelf. I then have to sort out all the hubby’s golf crap. I don’t think he needs another box of golf ball for about 20 years. Once that side of the storage room is cleared off, I meander my way to the to other side.
On the other side, there are at least 7 boxes of clothes to go through. In going through the boxes, I had decided that I was going to go through them and sort out the bad form the good, and then give the no longer going to wear clothes to the good will. I had a theory in mind that for every item of clothing I kept, I had to give 2 items away to the good will.
In going through the 7 boxes, I narrowed them down to 4 boxes, and I had given away 5 ½ bag of clothes to go to the goodwill. I couldn’t phantom all the articles of clothing we had, it was ridiculous.
My 2-½ year old, has more clothes than a department store. (Literally!!) I got rid of my “FAT” clothes, so I don’t have any more excuses to go back to the size I once was. Of course I had to keep the maternity clothes, in case my hubby and I decide that we want to have another kido, I am prepared there. Don’t know when that day will be, but it’s always good to be prepared.
So, after spending my entire weekend, and 2 days working my butt off and clearing out all the crap and finally finishing this project on Sunday morning. I must say that my hard work has paid off, and now we actually have room again to store something of value, and can actually walk in the storage room!!
So, first I start by clearing off one rack at a time, one shelf at a time. I tried to organize it by holiday stuff. Halloween stuff on one shelf, Christmas stuff on another shelf. I then have to sort out all the hubby’s golf crap. I don’t think he needs another box of golf ball for about 20 years. Once that side of the storage room is cleared off, I meander my way to the to other side.
On the other side, there are at least 7 boxes of clothes to go through. In going through the boxes, I had decided that I was going to go through them and sort out the bad form the good, and then give the no longer going to wear clothes to the good will. I had a theory in mind that for every item of clothing I kept, I had to give 2 items away to the good will.
In going through the 7 boxes, I narrowed them down to 4 boxes, and I had given away 5 ½ bag of clothes to go to the goodwill. I couldn’t phantom all the articles of clothing we had, it was ridiculous.
My 2-½ year old, has more clothes than a department store. (Literally!!) I got rid of my “FAT” clothes, so I don’t have any more excuses to go back to the size I once was. Of course I had to keep the maternity clothes, in case my hubby and I decide that we want to have another kido, I am prepared there. Don’t know when that day will be, but it’s always good to be prepared.
So, after spending my entire weekend, and 2 days working my butt off and clearing out all the crap and finally finishing this project on Sunday morning. I must say that my hard work has paid off, and now we actually have room again to store something of value, and can actually walk in the storage room!!
Here’s a look at the end result!
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