Organizing, Organizing, Organizing

The past few days Ive been going crazy getting rid of unnecessary "stuff." Since Eli is over 2.5 the amount of clothes I have stuffed into closets is crazy! It seems like when there were a bunch of clothes that were too small Id stuff them into a plastic bag, or laundry basket, put it into a closet and forget about it. Well, once you have a closet stuffed full of stuff it sure looks like a mess, and really doesn't work. So, I bought a whole bunch of rubbermaid tote bins, and sorted through everything! All the clothes, cloth diapers, blankets, etc that have piled up. I sorted into sizes, labelled the bins and its all sorted!

However, I've really got the ball rolling... I cant stop organizing and sorting through stuff. I went through all of Eli's toys and got rid of a huge bag, we organized the basement in hopes to put new flooring down soon, and finish the dry walling. I have also gone through the spare room closet, and organized that, thrown out lots of stuff, and have started to do the same to our closet in our room, AND our bathroom. It feels incredible and looks even better! If at some point we decide to move down the road, it should be easy because Ive gotten rid of the junk, and everything is way more organized.

Andy and I worked really hard last week to organize our main floor. We ventured to ikea (a few times in one week actually!!) and bought some bins for my organizer, new light fixtures, new shower organizer, and a new t.v stand. Along with the new t.v stand we took down our wall mount and our huge tv that was waaaaay too big for our living room, and put our smaller TV downstairs. We organized the cords, and it works way better, and flows much nicer as well.

Investing the time & money into little things like new light fixtures gives a room such a new update for a good price. Ikea had really fair priced light fixtures, and we couldn't argue with the price, it was so worth it! Apparently, Eli loved going to Ikea last week and getting hotdogs for supper, then doing our shopping, because last night as we were sitting on the couch together he said to us, "Is it dark out?" I replied, "Yup, its dark out." He then said, "Ok. Go to kia (which means ikea!) get hot dogs, and play with trains? OK!!" It was pretty cute!!

So thats been our week, I still have more organizing to do, but once its done, and I can finish up a few more projects it'll be so worth it!