William Morris Thursday - the laundry room, part 2

 

Last Thursday, when my friend Brenda came for our regular Thursday project, I didn't have a whole lot for us to do. The week before she had given me the assignment of finding places for all this stuff to go, but that really only took 30 minutes to accomplish. And I did it 30 minutes before she arrived! ::procrastinator::

I took the small, empty, plastic bins we had purchased the week before but hadn't used yet to sort the stuff. In the end, there were 2 boxes of photo/scrapbook memorabilia, a box of stuff for me, my husband, my kids, office stuff, media stuff and stuff to file. They are still in their bins, stacked neatly in the laundry room, awaiting my 'system' to be developed.

All of these containers were filled with stuff only a half hour earlier. Man, that feels good. A good deal of it was pictures. Over half of it I either threw or gave away.

This is the cabinet that I'm stuffing all my art/project stuff for now. I'll deal with that later.

And I had great plans for this little file cabinet. I was going to load it up with all things paper and decorate it in a pinterest-worthy manner. But when it was all said and done, I ended up with not that much paper after all. I may have to get rid of it. ::shudder:: If Jules can sell a nice piece of furniture because it's not useful anymore, I can (gulp) get rid of a crappy filing cabinet.

While Brenda made labels for file folders for what little paper stuff I had left, I went online to make sure all of my bill-paying sites were set to paperless and change them all to automatically draft once a month. For some reason, I've been scared to do that. Probably because I'm not in a habit of looking at my account activity regularly. I've been afraid I'll miss something. Truth is, I probably would miss something which is why I switched everything over. Now I'm forced to look at it regularly.

Before we started, the light above Brenda was out and it was a little dark where she was working. I changed the bulb and realized it was a higher wattage than the other one so I had to change out the other one, too. Then, of course, I was forced to clean them because they were covered with dust that I have chosen not to notice because they are a pain to take down and clean. THEN, I noticed how much I hate these lights. One of my husband's friends came over a couple of weeks before his wedding and mentioned that they look like boobs. Of course he would notice, two weeks out from his own wedding. Ever since then, that's all I see. Thankfully, Jen at Tatertots and Jello has the answer for my boob lights.

Today, I have my son's first track meet to go to and we have to leave a little early so I'll be flyin solo on the organizing. I'm hoping for a beautiful weekend, though and maybe a jump start on spring cleaning. Ahhh, I love open window season!

I'm linking up with Jules at Pancakes and French Fries for her weekly William Morris project.

Join me?