On Organizing: Before and After

I am usually pretty organized.

There are those hot spots though.

This reminds me of that episode of 'Friends'

where they break into the closet at the end

of the hall in Monica's apartment.

It is just packed full!

She says that it is all the stuff

that doesn't fit into a category.

I think we all have this 'stuff'

in our lives.

The question is what do we do with it.

Obviously, I love the fact that my computer is

in a closet so I can shut the door.

And you can see why.

Well, at some point enough is enough,

and we just have to deal with it.

Now, I am one of those that my spices are alphabetized. 

Please don't judge me -

see above photos.

So after a couple of shelves,

a few arguments with spider webs and dust bunnies

(they almost won,)

and some good ol' elbow grease,

this is what I came up with.

It's still not entirely complete

as I have lots of papers to go through.

My solution for those was at the $ store.

I bought a couple little notebooks

and started writing all the information

that I had on sticky notes and corners of paper

into the notebooks.

I can flip through pages

much easier than digging through a pile.

So far so good.

Now I just have to figure out where to put

the filing cabinet.

That will probably lead to another project:)

Just how it goes around here.

The other thing is 
every time I really clean, I end up with 
a stack of things to take to the bargain counter.
Look at the 'extras'
just in time for back to school.
And this is after I kept
a generous supply.
They were in there - 
you just couldn't see them behind
the file cabinet:)

Until next time,
Nimble Fingers and Even Stitches