May 2 - Dumpster Diving

Well there really wasn't a dumpster but it was trash day in my neighborhood and I did the "unthinkable".  In front of my lady neighbor friends, I took plastic containers out of the trash!  What? They were in great condition and FREE, so now I have more containers to help organize.

Someone's Trash

Me in Action

What I came home with :)

 

May 1 - Pots and Pans

I was so excited to finally take the pull out drawer out of my pots and pans cabinet today.  I have never used the feature and it was just taking up valuable space in the cabinet.  So out it goes, along with some random tops and here is the organized before and after.

Before

After

Trash

April 30 - Craigslist!

Today I listed 6 items for sale on Craigslist! I love Craigslist.  You have someone pay you to take away something you don't want anymore!  I mean how fun is that?

Here are a couple things I posted, wish me luck!

April 28 - Random Bathroom Basket

This basket sits to the side of my bathroom sink. I haven't cleaned out this basket in 3 years!  If I would have only cleaned out this basket earlier I would have found a brand new mascara and lip balm. Instead I had already purchased and opened a new mascara and lip gloss.  So the moral of this short story is keep things clean so you know what you have!!!

Oh, 1 more thing, one of the makeup items in this basket was at least 9 years old.  That's just crazy talk!

Before

Yikes!

After

TRASH!

April 27 - The garage corner

This is the corner of my garage that is treated like a flat service - meaning everyone dumps their stuff there!   I am going to look for a small shelf for the area at our neighborhood yard sale this weekend.  I also need to find some container for the sidewalk chalk.  Until then, here is the before and after.

April 26 - Makeup Bag

I have left the guest room and the huge pile of papers.  I am so overwhelmed when I walk into that room that I just keep walking back out.  So, I decided to clean out my makeup bag instead.  According to the professionals I should only be keeping makeup for 3-6 months.  If I look in my makeup bag I see things that are over a year old.  So I went shopping and tried to clean up part of my act.

Before

During ( Several items went into the trash)

Replaced

After

April 25 - Papers

This is kind of boring peeps.  I'm just slowly going through the 1st bin of paperwork in the guest room. I have sticky notes labeled all over the bed to sort everything.  So here are the not very exciting pictures.

Before

During

I'm working my way to the bottom.

April 24 - BEST POST EVER

Ok, this post makes me laugh.  I finally, Yes Sister in Law, finally started to tackle the paperwork that is all over my guest room.  I have 3 years worth of paper work just hanging out, not being filed, not being organized.  So I enter the guest room, pick up the 1st of many bins of papers and place it on the bed to get started.  This is what happened next....

Before (I'm ready to go)

I should make the bed first.

Ok- I'm done for the day! 

April 23 - Eggs

I mean - typing eggs as my post title makes me laugh.  How do you organize eggs?  It seems crazy that this is my project for the day, but I have to say I love the simple easy projects.  Here is a bag of Easter eggs, half still filled with candy!  Well all the candy is in the trash and the eggs are put away.

Before

After

Lots of Eggs

Eggs are Hidden!

April 22 - Costumes

I'm still in the playroom closet!  I have a big black trash bag filled with costumes.  I finally went through them all and organized them on hangers.  The rest of the crap junk in the trash bag is now in the TRASH!  Yippieeeee

Bag O' Costumes

Before

After

TRASH!!

April 21 - Playroom Closet Again

More shelves.  I had several Easter decorations that can't stand up on the shelves, so they are laying down and I keep piling things on top of them.  You can't see them in the photos but trust me they are there, hidden under papers and what not.  So I went and got a fun container to organize the Easter decorations.  You can see them on the bottom shelf.  This freed up space in the closet

Before

Fun Container

Easter Decorations

After

April 20 - Playroom Closet continued

I realize that I like to move from one place to another when organizing.  So I moved back to the playroom closet.  I had only worked on 1/2 of the shelves before,   so I started working on the next set of shelves.

Before

After

April 19 - Hall Closet comes to a Close!

Pun intended!  Here is my messy floor before and clean floor after.  It is actually nice to open the closet and see organization!

Before

After

April 18 - Hall Closet Part 4 (Closet Door)

Not much to say here peeps.  The bag, scarfs and 2 jackets are in the donate pile.

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After

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After

April 17 - Hall Closet Part 3 (Dog Hook)

It's kind of embarrassing that this post is just about a dog hook, but I need to keep my projects small or I won't do them...

Before

After