I started on one of my New Year's resolutions before 2012 came around. The week after Christmas, I spent a pretty significant about of time cleaning and organizing the house. I guess I wanted to start the new year with some momentum.
Anyways, here are some of the projects I did:
1. I cleaned out my closet. I havn't really touched the clothes yet (though I will) - just the boxes sitting on the shelves and floors. I came to the realization that I had no idea what was in those boxes, but whatever they were, I haven't needed them in the past 2 1/2 years. So I took them down, sorted through them, and consolidated what I wanted to keep into one shoebox. The rest I either trashed or donated to the local Mission Rescue thrift store. I also got one of these purse organizers for my closet. My purses had been sitting in a box on a floor, and I think this makes my closet look and feel a lot more clean and organized. The best part about cleaning out my closet was finding an IKEA gift card (which I thought I had lost) and a little cash in a birthday card from my grandma. Which leads to my next project...
2. I reorganized the bathroom. David and I went to Ikea and bought a new bathroom cabinet (we had been using my old broken-down college bookshelf to store toiletries). I also went through all our toiletries and trashed everything that was too old.
3. I reorganized our cleaning closet. David and I hung a shoe organizer to the back wall and are storing our cleaning supplies in the pockets. Previously, our cleaning supplies were stored either in the cleaning closet, under the kitchen sink, or under the bathroom sink. Now everything is consolidated in one place, and it clears up a lot of under-sink space.
I've done some other projects since then, but I want to take some pictures before I share the updates with you. I'll be sure to post pictures of these projects, too, once I get the apartment looking respectable enough for pictures :).
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