after

My friend Lisa accidentally saw our (not visitor ready) bedroom because Cam had an emergency and needed to use our bathroom. Our room gets cleaned up every couple-ish weeks and then is a mess within a few days. Basically, I'm great at doing our laundry but horrible at putting it away and it's a vicious cycle for me. Anyway, Lisa got inspired to help me get organized so she came back that same night that she saw the disaster zone and we got to work. I forgot to take a 'before' picture, but I'm not sure I would've shared it anyway, so no big deal.

Here's the after:

The 'before' closet had baskets on the floor that were moved up to the shelf after I realized I could put away about 75% of the stuff because it was either seasonal or the wrong size. I also now have 3 bags of clothes to donate and an empty storage box that I have yet to decide what to do with. I also wasn't using the hanging shelf (it was the other direction as sort of a divider between our closets). And some other stuff may have found its way in there as well that needed to find a different home.

The bummer with all of this is I now see how many clothes I actually wear and that I only love about 3 things... Oh well, now I know.

Thanks Lisa! You should do this for a living. : )