As I’ve been organizing, I’ve done a terrible job photographing how closets, drawers, and cabinets looked before!  I sort of hop around, working on multiple spaces at once, and get a closet half ripped apart before I realize I didn’t capture a before picture.  I did manage to get a picture of this closet in the guest room after I had only pulled a few things off the top shelves.  Other than having overhead lights installed, we haven’t done any work in this room since it’s used as a guest room and for storing my sewing and knitting stuff, but it’s on the list! Anyway, here is what this closet looked like before I started working on it.  I had organized it pretty well when we first moved in, but it’s gotten a little messy as I’ve shoved things in there over the past couple of years.  As with the

Over the weekend, I continued working through the house, thinning out areas and setting things aside to sell or taking them to the thrift store.  I have unearthed an entire closet in the guest room that was embarrassingly piled floor to ceiling with stuff.  At the bottom of the pile was a bin of clothes I hadn’t seen since our move.  It contained some of my favorite pairs of jeans that I thought I had donated!  I keep calling Jeff over to look at a closet or a cabinet, drawer, or shelf I’ve thinned out and organized.  It feels good. As I was pulling stuff last week, I decided to thin out the items on my kitchen counters and hanging from the potrack.  As a collector, I sometimes have a hard time putting the brakes on when I have enough!  I was trying to fit way too much in a