Y’all, I’m not that organized!
My kitchen and living room were simple enough, but my bathroom and bedroom were the true disasters! You see, my apartment is fairly small (roughly 800 sq. feet), and I have a lot of stuff. Over the past year, I have started to do a fair bit of freelance writing and gear testing for various publications, and obviously, this has led to the accumulation of even more stuff. It took me a few months to realize why my apartment was feeling a bit stressful, but once I finally did, I was almost excited to tackle this challenge!
I eased my way into this task by starting in my bathroom. I originally had a shelf system underneath my sink, but it broke a few months ago and I hadn’t taken the time to re-organize everything under there. It was growing incredibly frustrating because all these products would fall onto my feet every time I opened the doors. (And no, I cannot believe I am showing you this picture, but whatever– no shame here!)
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| Seriously, how in the hell did this happen?! |
I decided my first plan of attack was to remove everything from the cupboard and sort it on my bathroom floor. This served two purposes: first of all, I could see what I had and how to organize it, and secondly, there was no turning back once it was spread all over the place!
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| Kinda awkward that the tampons placed themselves front ‘n center. Sorry y’all. |
Unfortunately, my sink was the least of my problems and I purposely avoided my bedroom (and my closet) for half the day because I knew it was going to take forever! I realized last month that I literally could not fit all of my clothes in my closet if they were all clean, and that’s pretty absurd. I have a fairly large walk-in, so there is no excuse for me to have so much stuff when I know I don’t wear it all!
I started with the same technique as above and threw all of my clothes in the center of my bedroom floor. As ridiculously shameful as this pile looks, I’m even more embarrassed to admit that it was only 1/3 of the clothing I had shoved in my closet!
Luckily, Will had some extra free time over in San Diego because I grew incredibly bored with my afternoon activities. I Facetimed him while he was doing chores around his house, propped my phone up on my cedar chest in my closet, and talked to him for the next couple hours while I continued to purge my clothing. It was great because I could use him as my gauge for items that fell in the gray area! If I wasn’t sure if an article should stay or go, I’d try it on and he’d get the final opinion. It worked out pretty nice!
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| Mid-way through. All those empty white hangers USED to have clothes attached! |