operation: CLEAN ROOM Task 1

Yes! It's time to get the scrap room CLEAN! Time to take back my happy place. It literally is a wreck!
I have an awful habit of moving stuff from one spot to another. It's the "I might use that" or "not sure where to put that" mentality that really effects me when I am trying to get things done.
One of the biggest issues in my scrap room is that it has too much stuff. Yup, I said it... TOO MUCH STUFF!

I have things that I used 10 years ago, still sitting in there- things I KNOW I will NOT use again.
Paper scraps, half used rub-on sheets, stickers, mini tags, chipboard pieces and lots of mix and match left-overs. These are the things that are overflowing my embellishment drawers, cluttering my table and causing me stress.

Task #1 PURGE
First I need a space to work!

This is the mess on just one side of my desk- this is what happens when you you don't put things away. I moved everything off- yup, moved it from one place to another but something necessary for Task #1.

Now I have a couple piles on the other end of the table, a LARGE pile IN my office chair and a plastic bin full of misc. stuff.

Now to go through these! I have all my embellishments organized by color (that's the way my creative brain works). Normally I would but all my embellishments in here when I am done using them or go through to find things as I am working. The problem is, I can't get anything else into them. PURGE!!

One drawer at a time... I dumped it out (onto my CLEAN table) and sorted trough. I filled up my office sized recycle can twice and have almost filled my trash! I went through 6 drawers. Absolutely amazing how much stuff I had. Some of it I thought to myself, "Did I really buy this?" Wow! What an undertaking! My desk is a mess again, but hey, I just started yesterday. Today I am going to finish cleaning it off so I can start PURGE section #2 Pattern Paper!