Some days I find it increasingly difficult to work because I just want to go home and organize and clean my house. More specifically, I want to go home and label everything. So tonight, as I sit late in my office, waiting to go to a meeting, I emailed Mike, my annoyingly-neat soon-to-be-husband, that I was going to organize our whole house:
“Honey, you know how I love to bust out my label maker and label everything and organize stuff, like the hall closet. I’m thinking I’m going to deep clean and organize our whole house. Throw out a ton of stuff, organize and label everything. I’m telling you this, so that you aren’t surprised when I start throwing shit out, because I want your support, AND because I’d love to someday join the society of professional organizers. http://www.napo.net/default.aspx
I’m REALLY good at organizing things, staying organized is another issue. But I figured this will be a good start.
I’m going to need a lot of baskets and more tape for my label maker. This will require trips to ikea.
Plan of attack: room by room!
Purge: get rid of stuff
Pile: group like items
Place: put into place
Label (why can’t that start with a P)
I think I’ll start by cleaning my craft room again
then the guest room
then the bedroom
then the bedroom closet
then the downstairs entry closet
then the pantry
then the kitchen
then the basement closets
then the mother of them all: the garage.
I think we’ll feel so much cleaner and simpler. I’ll need your help going through stuff to see what you want to get rid of.
Also, I really want to take down the bed in the guest room and just have the frame. That bed takes up a lot of space.
Also, let’s put a closet system in the basement closet (the one as you come down the stairs) like the one I have in the craft room.
this summer I’d like to put in shelves in the garage too btw.
One more thing. If you want to go get your new desk we can move the black desk that you have downstairs upstairs. Where the bench is we should put that desk and one of our dining chairs and use it to finally have a place to organize our finances, house documents and mail all in one place.
Ok I think that’s it. What do you think?”
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