First of all, I'm just impressed that I've been consistent for 17 weeks. I think what helps is the encouragement from the GOHQ Facebook page and this project being listed as a "want-to" from my Work Life Harmony training.
The master bedroom is finished!!!! Before the end of the month! No scrambling on Tuesday trying to finish to stay on track. Wednesday I had a 25 minute time slot so I thought I would pull everything out of my side of the closet and put it on the couch. I'm so glad I did this. I had a Zoom meeting scheduled for 11:30 on Thursday. I also wanted to get a lesson of my C.S. Lewis course done before the Zoom call. This meant I needed to be done with closet stuff by around 10:30. Around 8:30 I got started. First I pulled a box from the crawl space to have Doc look at when he gets home. I was then able to move in a couple boxes of books and rearrange some of Trixie's toys to clear up space at the entrance to make it easier for me to add things later, if necessary. I vacuumed and dusted a little in there, but didn't pull everything out. I then tried on almost all the clothes in the pile on the couch. I set aside some items for Trixie to look at and I had a huge donate pile. I flipped my hangers backward to see what I really end up wearing. I was able to get things back in the closet including the reduced pile of sweaters and the not so reduced pile of sweatshirts. I do love sweatshirts. The only thing I didn't get to on Thursday was the box that had scarves, sexy nighties, and some jeans. I did that on Friday. Nighties all went to the donate pile, scarves went into a smaller shoebox and placed in one of the bed cubbies. The box was eliminated and now I have a small pile of pants and capris on the closet shelf.
Saturday morning I popped in an Avalon CD and emptied the storage closet. Tossed a few things, added a few things to the donation pile, relocated a few things, and intentionally put back items in the closet. Still looks like a jumbled mess. It's such a weird space under the stairs. I'm hoping Trixie and I will be able to sort craft supplies this summer. Craft stuff is now stashed in four separate locations. Hopefully that won't be the case after we sort things.
The office is next. I did make a general timeline for different sections. Not sure if Thursday-Saturday will be enough. Some sections have two weeks. The physical cleaning can certainly get done on those days. It's the paper clutter that is going to take time. Do I do what I can do in the assigned weeks or save paper clutter as a separate project? Save physical cleaning for Thur-Fri and work on the sorting on Sat. and maybe other days of the week? Do what I can until the end of March and add whatever isn't done to my backlog until Mt. Vernon is done? Although, I think some of the boxes of stuff in the office are already listed on my backlog. It would be nice to get it all done and off the backlog.
The first week's assignment is the long wall with the coat hooks and the stairs. Since it's mostly just physical cleaning for this section, Thursday morning may be sufficient. Then I could get started on the next section early. It includes the cubbies in the hall, the shoe cubbies, the shoe rack, the Christmas boxes that still need to go back to the garage, the huge pile of stuff in the corner near the stairs. I did weed through the drawers of the cart a year or so ago looking for items for Trixie's scrapbook for her graduation open house. The papers left should be things I wanted to keep, read or do something with them. I was going to wait until towards the end to clean out the storage area under the stairs so I could gather all that I wanted to put in there. Just wondering where to keep those items until then. No room currently in there. I also need to make a plan for things not staying to have an exit strategy. I have some sheets to go to the animal rescue and books to Forest Academy to see if there are any that can find a new home. This is going to be a big project.
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