Organizing for the New Year
I, like many people at this time of year, have been cleaning and re-organizing closets - throwing out the old and trying to simplify things. Yesterday I spent the whole day cleaning and moving things around in the kitchen. It started out as trying to organize all my plastic containers and matching them up with the right lids and then all of a sudden I'm moving everything around - and you can't move things around without cleaning everything.
Today I tackled the spare bedroom. There were a lot of Charlie's clothes in the closet and now that he lives elsewhere I decided to box everything up for storage. After a trip to Costco to buy large plastic storage containers I managed to pack almost everything into 5 of them. Tomorrow I'll finish it up and then put it all into storage under the house.
I'm off work until January 2nd and hope to go through the whole house before then. As I re-organize and clean I will put aside all items we no longer use or need and take them to Goodwill (Alex is a bit of a hoarder so some of this will have to be done in secret). Come the New Year I hope to have a much emptier house.
Today I tackled the spare bedroom. There were a lot of Charlie's clothes in the closet and now that he lives elsewhere I decided to box everything up for storage. After a trip to Costco to buy large plastic storage containers I managed to pack almost everything into 5 of them. Tomorrow I'll finish it up and then put it all into storage under the house.
I'm off work until January 2nd and hope to go through the whole house before then. As I re-organize and clean I will put aside all items we no longer use or need and take them to Goodwill (Alex is a bit of a hoarder so some of this will have to be done in secret). Come the New Year I hope to have a much emptier house.