My Organized/Cutened Up Room – Part 3

December 25, 2013

My awesome little monkey hook. (I got it from Target in case you want one.)
My awesome little monkey hook. (I got it from Target in case you want one.)

Finishing out this little series on getting organized, now that we know all the changes in my room, I just thought I’d touch on how I got there.

I’m sure everyone has different strategies and ways they go about organizing and decorating (or at least semi-decorating, which is what I’ve done). But for me, this is how I did it.

I started by taking everything out of one of my closets. (We each get two here – plus a hall closet.) Anyway, I emptied out one of my closets (the easy one, in which the main thing is clothes). And I only put things back in that I knew I actually would use and keep. I gave away some clothes. (As soon as I felt I had enough to give away, I’d take a trip or mail things out. I know it might not have been the most streamlined process. But I was about getting things out that didn’t need to be in there.

In addition to clothes, I organized papers and anything else that were in there.

Sure, it made my room kind of a mess. But it worked pretty well (and made me want to hurry up and get everything organized so my room wouldn’t be such a mess). And then I just started going about my room (and various areas – bathroom, my little hallway), piece by piece.

When I realized I had enough stuff that didn’t have a place, but that I wanted to keep, I went out and got another set of drawers or another binder or whatever I needed.

Now, this probably resulted in more trips to Target than I would’ve needed to take had I somehow mapped it out ahead of time. But I felt I was learning as I went. And I didn’t want to wait ’til the very end, because once I saw enough things that needed a place, I wanted to give them a place and be done with it.

Had I been really going for a particular look, that may have been a bad idea. But all I wanted to keep the budget on organizing as low as possible while getting as much done as possible. So, I was fine with little plastic drawers from Target.

When it came to the little bit of decorating I’ve done, I definitely could’ve tried to plan that more. But I just went and saw what frames were available. Then I thought about the pictures I had. Then I just bought some frames with general ideas in mind and tried to put the puzzle pieces together.

So, there you have it. Nothing earth-shattering or life altering. Just piece by piece until it was finished.

As I’ve said before, I’m sure it could be organized even more so. But I know where things are. I feel generally de-cluttered, like I don’t have a ton of stuff just hanging out that I’m not gonna use. And it’s a great feeling. I actually feel like a physical room was even easier to do than my computer… But we’ll get to that soon enough.

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