Clutter Project Day 4

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I'm discovering that decluttering and writing about it divided into days may not work as I intended. Since we can only share on photo per post, I can only show the before or the after photo, but not both. Here I'm sharing an after photo. This is my bedroom. When we first moved in it was extremely cluttered since I was also storing lots of book boxes in here. Those were mostly moved into the living room when suddenly we had to start sleeping here after my surgeries in 2014. It still may look cluttered to you, but it's much better than it was last week. See the tall bookcase at the back? That used to have no empty space at all and I had electronic and other non-book type stuff on the shelf in the middle where you now see a few books stacked. Those stacked books are on their way out. I just have to list them and get them into the box. Also, there was stuff on the floor in front of the bookcase blocking some of the lower doors. I sorted some small boxes and threw out a bunch of stuff. One good-size box was full of product packages I was keeping to refer to when I reviewed the products. I decided to cut out only the parts of the packages I needed, and when I finished that I was able to fit everything upright in a small rice-roller box so I could easily flip through it to find what I needed. I put that box in the computer room where I would actually be writing the reviews. You can see another rice roller box in the lower right corner by the TV. I used it to hold the CD's I wanted handy in my room. Some had been on a night stand by my bed and some had been on that bookcase shelf. Now they are out of the way and easy to flip through. Before they were stack on top of each other. I find that on most days I'm dealing with more than one area. As I start to organize and put things in one area away, I find I have to move from room to room to find places for what I want to keep. For example, my closet was really using space inefficiently. I decided to go through the purse storage bag my mother had left there. I was able to decide to donate a least half the purses and use the extra space for things taking up room on the closet floor. Some things were so worn out that I just threw them away. Today I took everything I've sorted to donate so far to the thrift shop. That was a large bag of clothes, three large boxes of books, and two boxes of purses. Some days I get more done than others, but I'm keeping to the goal to get rid of at least something every day or to find a place for sorted things I need to keep (such as sorting and filing important papers). Have you met your goals for what you wanted to do today?