52 Weeks of Organizing - Week 2

This week, my goal was to clean up our guest bedroom, specifically, the book shelf.  This dresser/bookshelf has become the dumping grounds for some of the decor that we no longer have use for in another part of the house, lots of old books and miscellaneous photos (I'm sure this scenario sounds familiar to many of you, haha).  As I mentioned last week, our guestroom was also our makeshift office while we finished our basement (which was completed in early summer 2010, ugh).  Last week, I finally cleaned up the desk area and we donated the old desk to Goodwill.  This week, I rolled up my sleeves and purged or donated much of what was on the bookshelf.  It feels SO good to finally have the room back.  This weekend, we will move the bookshelf to the opposite side of the room and it will actually look like a welcoming guest bedroom again!  (Just in time for my mom to visit next week).  Yay!  (See before and after below)
It took me less than one hour this week to get this done, amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it!  I'd love to hear about any organizing projects you completed.  Feel free to post your organizing successes at I'm an Organizing Junkie, as well!



BOOKSHELF BEFORE





BOOKSHELF AFTER



ROOM BEFORE

ROOM AFTER

52 Weeks of Organizing - Join Me!

I recently ran across an awesome blogger from Canada named Laura.  Her blog is called "I'm an Organizing Junkie" and she covers all things related to organization (of course).  She also has a little shop connected to her site where she sells some great organization products (I already ordered and received the fridge file - love it!).  Being the Type A planning and organizing kind of gal that I am, but also not having the time to be as organized as I used to be now that I have a one year old running around, this site offered motivation to re-focus my efforts in 2011!  There is a bit of clutter that has built up in my house - remnants from finishing our basement and just from being generally way too busy to even think about it.  But this is my year to take back some control!

What I love about Laura and her blog is that she keeps things simple.  One example is her new 52 weeks of Organizing concept - she created a document that you can use to jot down one thing each week that you can do to put you and your home into a more organized state!  By tackling one small task at a time, it doesn't seem so daunting.

As for Week 1, I tackled a desk that is still sitting in our guest bedroom (we had a makeshift office there until our basement was completed) - it had piles of stuff sitting on it.  I purged most of the papers and junk and put the rest in its rightful place in our house.  We plan to take the desk to Goodwill today!  I feel SO good about completed this one little task (which literally took me a half hour to complete!)  I will continue to highlight some of my organizing successes here.  I'd love to hear about some of your projects and what you think of Laura's blog!!