Last week, I shared my One Shelf Project from the week before. The project that I had desperately hoped was just a small piece of the big picture.
Last week, I shared my One Shelf Project from the week before. The project that I had desperately hoped was just a small piece of the big picture.
The big picture for this room in need of serious decluttering.
My brilliant plan was foiled before it started, since I had scheduled a sleepover for my son. A sleepover that I forgot until two days before.
A sleepover that had been planned for this room.
I was forced to scratch the little-by-little idea and start some fast-and-furious decluttering with the goal of getting this room usable.
Not perfect.
Barely even clean.
Just usable.
Anyway, I had 45 minutes to work, so I literally ran all over the house putting things back where they were supposed to go.
In five minutes, I re-decluttered this why-do-I-still-have-it-in-here dresser.
In another five minutes, I cleared the wow-what-a-great-place-to-throw-anything-and-everything-as-we-come-in-from-the-garage sleeper sofa.
Don’t look at the bookshelf.
My biggest frustration was this pile:
I THOUGHT it was all preschool learning stuff. Because I assumed that, I avoided this pile because it was so big.
I also am not quite sure what to do with this stuff yet. My youngest is in kindergarten, and MIGHT still need some of it.
Oh . . . those mights get to me sometimes.
Anyway, because I thought the pile of decisions was humongous . . . I avoided it. Once I dealt with the pile, however, I saw that that big white box on top was full of office supplies. I have no idea when that box ended up in that pile. I was more than irritated to realize how much smaller and easier-to-deal-with the pile was once it was gone.
Here’s the room after 45 minutes of fast and furious decluttering (and webisode making).
Far from grown-up-company ready, but perfectly usable for two boys to have their first sleepover.
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I’ll be linking this up over at Orgjunkie.com’s 52 Weeks of Organizing.
It’s amazing what can be done in less than an hour. Go you!
I noticed in your webisode that you said you wanted to get rid of your dresser, but you needed to move it and find a way to haul it off.
With this being said – is you neighborhood where you get a some traffic driving by? My mom had an older bed (frame only) hanging out in her garage for like, 10 years and she would complain about it every time we walked out there. One day while visiting and sick of hearing about the stupid bed, I literally dragged it to the curb and leaned it on her mailbox and made her make a big FREE sign.
We drove off to do an errand and when we came back less than 30 minutes later *POOF* the bed was gone. Something that haunted her garage for over a decade, something she “thought” she had to haul away. Its amazing what a FREE sign can do – hope that helps 🙂
That is a great idea. I’m scared, but will be thinking this over.
OH man, if I don’t feel motivated, it motivates me really quick to clean if I invite someone over. Works every time. lol
yep!
Hey, Nony! So happy to see you in your pink decluttering clothes! You’re inspiring. As usual. Hope your little guy has a great time!
freecycle.org and they will come get the dresser!
You get the stick with it award! So happy to see your webisodes. They always make me smile and inspire me to! Ugh you should see my craft room where I am sitting right now!
I’m cracking up at your credits on your webisode. They always make me laugh:) As I was watching, I was thinking “I wonder if she’ll notice that light behind her head..” Guess you did! Still slowly catching up (because I am trying to clean/declutter and READ your blog so my husband doesn’t complain about me reading it (and not doing other things)), but enjoying every post!
Sometimes there is just good enough, and getting the pile into a less-intimidating box.
Good for you!
Today, the plasterer needed to get into the bedroom, which was pretty untidy. Books and magazines all over the floor, and other stuff …
But that stuff is currently being read, so couldn’t be decluttered, and I didn’t have time to declutter anywhere else to put the stuff, so it just went into another bedroom.
However, the floor got vacuumed including under the bed, as he needed to work behind the bed so I have to move it.
So the books and magazines can move back onto nice clean carpet. Hmmm.