Cleaning and Organizing

The last two weeks have been full of cleaning and organizing. I figured that while I'm going to be preparing one of our spare bedrooms for a baby's room that I might as well get the rest of the house organized. This seems to be a bigger task than I realized. I set out to Target to buy plastic tubs of all sizes to get my closets a little less cluttered. Let's just say I need more tubs!

Our guest room is all put together and mostly cleaned (again, I need a couple more tubs). We have a filing system finally set up! I've been trying to do that for months and just never got around to doing it. So I might be a tad lazy but that's about to change. As for the baby's room, we have a crib that is set up, a chair and a clean closet ready for lots and lots baby clothes!! We have a whole lot more to buy for the little ones room but we will save that for when we find out the gender (Sept. 2).

Mike and I went through both of our closets and ended up with 3 and a half garbage bags full of clothes we donated to Goodwill. About 90% of those clothes I haven't even worn more than once or twice. We also spent all of Saturday cleaning out the garage. We were able to take our old loveseat, a t.v, an end table, the clothes, and 2 boxes full of various items to Goodwill. The rest of the stuff in the garage either went into organized boxes or in the garbage. My garage looks good as new!! I can't believe how clean it is and I feel so much better about myself that it's all organized.

We have a long ways to go on our organization journey but have a pretty good chunk of it done! It's nice to know that things have a specific place and I can feel a little less cluttered. Next up is the kitchen. That's going to be a bigger task than I want to tackle but it needs to be done!

So what started out as getting one room ready for the baby has turned into getting our whole entire house cleaned out and organized. It feels wonderful and it's well overdue.