Clutter, Clutter, Everywhere - CALGON TAKE ME AWAY!

Day Two

OMG! The morning started as any back to school, back to work day would. Up at the crack of dawn. Made the hubby breakfast, got his lunch packed, and by 6:05am he was out the door. At 6:10am the kids were moving at the speed of snail, but they got up and were fed and to help them with their first day back, I took them to school. OK, not really to help them back, but for me to get my things done around town. Taking them to school, on days I need to get out and get things done, is a huge motivator for myself to get my day started. Our commissary opens early so I was in the parking lot waiting by 7:25am.  Got only the things that I put on my preprinted shopping list organizer, that I bought at Target months ago. Shocking...I didn't buy anything that wasn't checked on the list and it still cost me over $100.00. UHGHGH!!! Honestly...the list kept me focused. I wasn't distracted this time, by the Little Debbie Chocolate Snack Cakes and Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips, begging me to put them in my cart. No Sir, not gonna do it, I kept my mind on the list.

I got home at 9:47am, put the groceries away and was ready to being my first official day of organization. I looked around the house and was immediately overwhelmed. Remembering a tip that I read in a book I just bought called "What's A DISORGANIZED PERSON To Do? 317 Ideas, Tips, Projects, and Lists to unclutter your home and streamline your life. Author: Stacey Platt." Hummm, same first name with the same spelling...could this be a sign of a clutter free life to come?  Hope so. She suggested never to take on a large task. Work in small stages, rather than try to tackle everything at once. So I said to myself those very words over and over - small stages, little here, little there. So below is some before pictures of what I am tackling today - Reorganizing the 12 huge bins of Christmas, OOHH, that sounds like a new song "The 12 Bins of Christmas."  I have years of decorations that I bought and what people have given me over the years. These bins have been taking up precious garage attic space for years, and so I'm giving myself a limit. I'm keeping only 5. Ouch, I love Christmas, but it needs to be done and I'm determined to do it - I have to start somewhere. My thinking, what doesn't make it in the 5 bins will be donated. Progress pictures to be post soon.

This is just some of the bins,
the rest are upstairs for all the decorations in my dining room.

Progess updates to come later today.