I tackled several areas in my house this week on my “Itch to Pitch” de-cluttering mission. Unfortunately, many projects were started, but not all were finished…
Can you relate? You go to clean up one area, only to find things that belong in another area. So you go to put them away and totally get distracted by the clutter in that area. So you go to put those things away and get caught up in yet another area…
You get the idea.
I did finish a couple of specific, smaller areas. Just so I could take After Photos for this post.
See how handy blogs can be?
The kids and I tackled Olivia’s dress-up stuff and the closet in her room. She had a bench at the end of her bed that stored all the dress-up paraphernalia…
BEFORE:
We went through each piece one. by. one. If either Olivia or Peter wanted to keep it, we did.
(Yes, Peter dresses up, too.)(And yes, he likes the dresses just as much as Olivia does.)(Yes and yes, their 13yo brother shakes his head and tells him he will regret it someday.)
We ended up with this Keep Pile…
And this much to purge, ready to go to the Thrift Store/Goodwill.
Now that area looks more like this…
AFTER:
Then there was her closet, starting with her upper shelves…
BEFORE:
Not horrible. But I would literally throw things up onto those top shelves, to be dealt with “later”.
It is now later!
AFTER:
And down below in her closet looked like this…
BEFORE:
With her dress-up paraphernalia now stored in her closet, it now looks like this…
AFTER:
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Loved the pictures. It is always so satisfying to straighten and declutter.
I know what you mean though. It is so easy to get sidetracked if you leave the room you're cleaning in!
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