operation clean room: Task 2 Organizing

I did not get to post yesterday, but I made it through my goal of having the desk chair cleaned off and ready to use. I barely made it! I put away the last few items minutes before I had to head out the door to work!

Task #1 PURGE...COMPLETE!!!
Now on to Task #2 ORGANIZE...
It seemed that this task ended up happening while I was clearing out the dreadful looking bookcase. I went through years of the kids schoolwork Turns out it was not just schoolwork! I found old bills, junk mail, school flyers, pictures and random other things that I honestly have no idea how they got there.
The cleaning out of the shelf including making 4 piles on the desk.
Each of the kids have a school pile, there is a pictures to sort/organize pile and a layout pile. You would not believe how many COMPLETED layouts I found that need to be put into albums.
Yes... we are supposed to put them in albums... I counted 37 layouts, plus some that are not done.

As I was creating these piles I purged at the same time. Looks like we were a little obsessed with keeping EVERYTHING from Julia. Every homework packet and alphabet writing practice from preschool and kindergarten were in there. 90% of it went into the trash. I really did not need papers of her writing can, am & Sam over and over again or her numbers 1-10, 1-25, 1-50- you get the point...
I am proud to say while cleaning my room, I made 5 trips to the recycle can and 2 trips to the trash. I even created a donation box for a friends preschool class & a good will box.
Yea Me!! So here we go... my view as I enter my room!

 

My clean and organized ribbon and button jars

My kids school piles and layouts to put away pile

And my bookcase! Everything is in it's place. The lined up bags along the left short shelf are all the incomplete projects I need to work through. The best part of that is I actually have the space to sit and work on them!

My happy place is HAPPY once again!
I have a few more things to finish, but this was huge for me! Just getting things put away seemed so daunting.  For months, I have not even wanted to walk in there- now I love it!
Time to finish Task #2!
To put away all those completed layouts and add the kids school work to their albums. I'm pretty sure I can get through it all this weekend. Ooohh, I am so excited!

A special thanks to all of you and your little notes to check in on me and my progress. It's been fun! I am happy to hear I have even inspired some of you to get organized! It's amazing how happy you feel when your done- It's almost like loosing weight... well almost  **wink, wink**

Happy FRIDAY!!!!