Goal Week 3: Coat/Hall Closet

So this week I picked a smaller project as I was away this weekend. I decided to clean out and organize my coat/hall closet. This closet, like so many places in my apartment, became a catch all place to shove things during rush cleanings and the home to odd objects I just didn't know where to put. Everything from paint rollers and trays from when I first moved in, to my decorative vintage skies were residing in there, along with a pile of coats, shoes and clothes. 

Oh My!

Week 2- 1/2: Closet, dresser and bedroom overall

Running a little late I know. However, not because I have not been purging and cleaning. This goal was just a bit bigger than I realized. This week and a half I cleaned out my bedroom closet, dresser, under the bed drawers, under the bed in general, night stand, and cleared out just general clutter that should not be there.

Dear Gods! How have I been living like this?!!

Bonus Post: Junk at my Parent's Place

My parents asked me to come by their house yesterday to look at a box that had some old stuff of mine. I still have some of my things at their house, mostly old art projects from high school and college I haven't had the time or heart to ween through. I figured I would just get there toss the box into the car, get some dinner with them and heard home. Then deal with it when I dealt with the rest of the art I am unsure what to do with (a goal I will be eventually tackling after the main living space in my apartment is finished.)

I was wrong. It turned out to be four boxes and an odd array of things. Some of it art, but a lot of it very old paperwork, weird bric-a-brac from old hobbies and interests I had such as gemstones, anime pins and keychains, incense burners, convention passes, concert tickets. There were also old gift cards, notebooks from school, flash cards, and even more old books! They also had a bag of clothing for me to look at.  Basically a whole array of old history I had forgotten about or thought was lost among the stuf in my apt here.

I managed to consolidate the four boxes into one. Some of the stuff in the box was kept because I know people who would want some of them items, not because I necessarily wanted to keep it. The books and clothes will be donated with a few other odd items. The box itself will stay with my parents for now while I work on the purging project here.

Goal Week 1: Books

The most annoying thing to move last year to the new apartment was my sofa, which got stuck within the angled doorway to my living room blocking both the doorway and the hallway and the stairwell. (Getting it through, was like giving birth to upholstery.) The second most annoying were the books. So this week's goal was to go through all of my books, and significantly pare them down.