I cleaned my office!!!!!

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I cleaned my office on Sunday and Monday. It took me two days because it was piled high with mail, crafts, and anything else I did not know what to do with. I have been having company since June and I would put all the things in my office that I did not know where else to put it and crack the door and walk away. I have been working for the doctor here at home and have piles of paper that I want to use the backs of the paper, I had years and years of mail piled up also. I have two desks and a sewing machine cabinet that I could not see. Then I had crafts that was given to me I just piled up in here. Sunday I started with cleaning the cat box out and then started cleaning my desk off. I took out 2 ~ 33 gallon trash bags of recycling out of here, and a box of papers that need to be shredded I also took out a small trash can of trash out of here. Now that all the mail was take care of and the papers where taken care of it was time to tackle the crafts. I started putting them in piles of what goes together and then I did not know where to go from there. I am not to good at organizing things so I had a friend come over to help me. We worked for 3.5 hours organizing my stuff. I have 5 craft/tote bags that I do not know what to do with I do not want to dispose of them so we hung them in the closet. You see the closet does not have any doors and that is where the cat box sits so I cannot use the floor. I hung a mesh sack full of yarn in the closet by two strong metal coat hangers. I also put an old throw run under the cat box to catch the litter off he cats feet when they climb out of the cat box and another on beside to catch more littler. I cannot believe how much littler gets out of the box and it has a lid on it. I have a shelving unit that I organized my note cards, thank you cards and stationary on, I have one shelf with plastic bins that has scrap booking items in and embroidery thread and supplies in. Mind you I did not buy most of these craft items most of them was given to me. I do do my crafts and use what I have before buying new. I have one shelve of craft books. I want to go through the books and put them in order so I have all crocheting books together and the same with the cross stitching books. I have one more binder to organize, when I am working with word or excel program and I need to learn how to do something I print the instructions out. I then cut the instructions down to size and glue the sheets on to another piece of paper so I fill one page up. I then have the instructions at my finger tips. Well I have lots of instructions I have printed out that I need to cut out and glue then put in my binder. I also have an index so I can find what I am looking for. Now my question to you guys is: do you have a room that you shove stuff in until it will not hold any more? What do you do with all that stuff when you do clean the room? How long does it take you to clean the room out?