My Closet, Pt. 1

How do I convince you that after you see what you are about to see that I am not the world's messiest person ever? Well, hopefully, gaining the knowledge that we just moved into our house 2 months ago and our closet became the drop zone for any and everything that I didn't know what to do with... AND it has only taken me 2 months to realize it's cah-razy to continue living with this kind of a mess and bit the bullet and spent 11 hours yesterday cleaning, organizing and throwing away random (and I mean random) things from my closet, maybe you won't judge me to harshly...maybe? So ladies and gentlemen, without further adieu... my closet.

BEFORE:

YIKES! Also, let me point out that having 2 kids my choice of storage bin is obviously the beloved diaper box. Holy cow, I'm not a redneck - I swear it. Now I only feel okay about showing how awfully crazy, unorganized I WAS because of how happy I am with the result! A lot of my problem was the need to consolidate. I like to craft. So spread out amongst one diaper box, 4 big Hobby Lobby bags and my sewing box were my craft supplies. The need to organize and chuck quite a bit of my crafting stuff has been a LONG time coming and I'm so happy with the result!

Top drawer is scrapbook paper and decal stuff, middle drawer is fabric and ribbons, bottom drawer is paint, paint brushes, glue sticks, glue gun and all my craft scissors. See, I know exactly where everything is! I also cleaned out my  sewing box and it is nicely organized now too!

Cleaning out my closet made me realize something about myself. I'm a hoarder. Yes, I said it (like you had any doubts from the first picture) I'm a hoarder. I had way too hard of a time deciding what goes in the stay pile and what gets thrown out. Now, I'm just kidding about the hoarder thing - I'm just an extremely busy person who found throwing things where people can't see them way too appetizing! ^.^ I did get down to business and ended up breaking down every single cardboard (this includes diaper) box to recycle, filling up 3 very full bags of trash and 1 bag of clothes that is going to Good Will sometime this week! This is a good point to post a picture of my new and improved closet!!

It's crazy to me that our closet almost looks too EMPTY! I still have some "cute-ifying" to do and honestly the fact that our clothes aren't on matching hangers is driving me batty but for now this is our closet! I named the post part 1 because though I admittedly am a nut, I will probably buy the matching hangers and some more cute bins and storage stuff and I intend to share those picture whenever money and time allow for me to finish this project, but por la momento I couldn't be happier with the result! This was number one on my organizing hit- list and I am so proud of the result! I honestly have probably opened my closet no less than 10 times just to look at it and make sure I actually did organize it and that wasn't some crazy nightmare! Again don't judge my before too harshly - I'm extremely embarrassed, avert your eyes to the after! Also, I apologize for the picture quality I took all of these with my phone, I will try to get better pictures for any future blog posts. That's all for now! Ta-Ta!