BooMama’s “Before And After” Carnival - The Timing, It Is Good

BooMama has crawled inside my head and is currently tapping on my eardrum with one of those itty bitty rock hammers, trying to get my attention.  I get it.  The irony of a ‘do something around your home’ carnival is not lost on this little procrastinating hen.

So, BooMama wants some goals.  I have plenty of those, but I’ve picked just three because, let’s face it, any more than that and I’d still be decluttering in December.  Let me share.

Clean out the linen cupboard in the bathroom and organise the linens.  I thought about doing the ‘before’ shots now so you’d know how bad it is but the impact will be far greater if I can line them up next to the ‘afters’, so you’ll have to wait :P  I just kind of have a bunch of stuff in there.  I know some of it is sheets…some of them might even match, which is a good start.  We don’t have enough towels and we could do with a few more dish towels so those go on the shopping list and I’ll keep an eye out for a sale in the next few weeks (today, for example, I found a 10pk of washcloths for $5 and 2-packs of handtowels for $2 each, so I stocked up.  I also bought a couple of other things for the linen cupboard makeover today before I’d heard about the challenge - that’s not cheating is it? LOL).  I’m so excited.

Organize my Office Area.  We don’t have a separate home office but we do have an L-shaped loungeroom (living room) and the short end butts onto the kitchen making the potential coffee run from counter to desk about one-point-three seconds…once I get that area organized.  Currently I have my laptop and all manner of associated paperwork residing on half of the dining room table.  It’s not pretty.  Now, I’m undecided whether this makeover will include a clear out/organize of the filing cabinet (deadline is July 25th this year, right? Sigh) but any progress is fantastic.

Create a Baking Zone in the kitchen.  The kitchen has a MYRIAD of associated organizational issues of which a zone specifically to store flours and muffin trays and whatnot is merely a drop, however I’m intrigued by this idea.  But to clear out one cupboard means finding the room for those items elsewhere, so I suspect this project (ie, the kitchen in general) will continue beyond the suggested end date.

Special Bonus Points:

We actually have a four bedroom home but you’d never know it.  My son has shared with his younger sister for years (the eldest got his own room because of his special needs) and we have been telling him for months and months that we’ll make an effort to clean out the Black Hole of Doom (aka, The Fourth Bedroom) and we just haven’t finished things off.  We’ve made a TON of progress, but we’re not quite there.  Part of the problem resides with a great big hunkin’ clunk o’ home gym which has been used exactly 0.7 times since we moved three years ago and very little before that.  We’ve arranged for The Beast to go home with a relative just as soon as said relative can come and pick it up, but we also need to finish off the decluttering and move Boof’s bed and toys in.  A smidgeon-more-than-a-month timeframe on this one might be pushing things, as we’re limited to when our family member can pick up the home gym, but I hope to post before and after photos of at least the progress we’ve made in there between now and July 25th.  Ideally, there would be nothing BUT the gym in there by then.  Perhaps, LOL.

Of course it was mere coincidence that this carnival happened to pop up today, because I was TOTALLY going to be embarking on the Supermum Declutter Tour of ‘08 anyway, but it’s nice to know I’ll be doing part of it with you lovely ladies :)

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Cheers,
Lizzie