Cleaning we will go!

Spent today doing all kinds of things. Went to a free sale, really more like an exchange, with Mur and Dig, and the Bug. We went and looked at clothes, found a ton of things for Bug to wear, a few things for Mur and Dig, and even one or two things for me. Score! After, we came home and Hubby and I hit the dollar stores, and picked up a few boxes of clothing from the storage unit, so I can go through them. I will probably make a few boxes for the next free sale, and then start switching winter and summer clothing, since it's now getting cold here. In all, the 7 boxes we brought home won't last long. They will get sorted into keeping, donating, and restoring fairly quickly.

But perhaps the coolest thing of all was the fact we started cleaning my bedroom. It had gotten pretty congested in there. Boxes of clothing, dirty clothes waiting to go down to be washed, clean clothes waiting to be put away. and the ever growing pile of stuff. Pens, books, candles, and the odd thing here and there. It had gotten so I couldn't walk in the room without tripping anymore.

So we cleaned it. Now I not only can walk, I have floor space again. And, I have night stand tops semi clean, and looking pretty.

But my favorite change of all happens to be one that flies in the face of everything I've seen on design shows. Every show I've seen says not to do what we just did. We took the horrible sliding doors off the closet. Seriously, those things were damn annoying. Slide one way to see the hubby's side, slide another to see mine, and you never can quite get at the middle. And the closet was dark. Like, you couldn't see what you were pulling out until you'd pulled it out and then half the time, you were all "Well, that's not what I wanted."

Now, it's open and bright, and I can see everything, get to everything, and I can tell at a glance what I might want to wear. I really love it.

Sorry design shows, but this is one girl who really does want her closet doorless.

But, we did keep the doors, for when we think about selling the house. You know, when we are 50 something and looking at retiring somewhere warm. We can put them back up then.