Another Round of Mission: Organization

We have 8 closets in this house.   I’ve cleaned out 6 of them this month (one is in the laundry room and was rearranged back when I remodeled the laundry room. So, that makes 7 that have been decluttered).

Let me tell you – it may sound trivial but – this business is freeing!  This business of cleaning out clutter and getting rid of  things that you have to move to get to things you use – it’s mentally and emotionally freeing!  I trashed the trash, gave some things away, and took the rest to Goodwill.

These clean closets make me happy.  It’s so easy reaching in them to find things.  And it just feels good to know that you didn’t move the clutter out of the rooms open to the public; to know that even behind closed doors your STUFF is organized and looking good!

I didn’t do anything fancy (- yet! I have an idea for yellow in the guest bedroom closet).  The closets all still need painting.  But I’ll get around to that some day.  It just feels good to see a linen closet go from this to this:

And a bathroom closet go from this to this:

After I cleaned those out, my personal closet in the master bedroom broke.  As you can see we have that lovely (not), wire shelving throughout. They are held in the wall by metal screws outfitted with plastic pieces around them.  That plastic gets old and apparently brittle.  One morning as I was getting ready for work, this happened:

At the time, we just replaced the shelf on the wall to make it functional.  But see this post to see how outfitted the closet with a new Elfa organizational system.

Feeling down or blah?  PURGE!  I bet you’ll feel better.
-J

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