Posted: 03 January 2025 - 12:50 PM | |
Happy 2025! This thread is to post successes in organizing, however you would like to share. Please share for the encouragement of others and to motivate yourself, too! I will be using this thread to tally my Spaces Organized in 2025. I have a goal of 100 spaces for this year. For myself, I am defining a "space" as a flat surface, a drawer, a shelf, a tote, or other area where I have decluttered but there is still a lot of stuff. To count it in the tally, I will need to sort each item, clean it if needed, discard any trash and then put each item neatly in its logical space. The result will be a neat surface and being able to find the items when I need them. Here we go! 0/100 | |
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| Subclinical | Posted: 03 January 2025 - 08:00 PM |
Happy 2025! I try to organize as I go, but it's an iterative process! I don't really have any specific goals or areas, but I'm sure I will have projects to report this year. Two thoughts on how this connects to the dehoarding though - not saying you need to use one of these, but both the Marie kondo approach of gathering all the things that are the same and choosing which to keep and the "container method" (Dana White?) Where you decide where a particular category goes and can only keep what fits tie into both organizing and decluttering. | |
| Lila | Posted: 04 January 2025 - 06:29 PM |
I organized my first surface for the year! I picked a simple one, but one that was cluttery and annoying: one of my bedside nightstands. The nightstand had probably 17-20 items on it, all random and covered in dust. I threw out one item, put 4 items into a logical box I am putting random things in to deal with eventually, put several paper items on my desk, put a couple things away in other rooms. This left only 3 things on the nightstand: a small lamp, the control for the heated mattress pad, and the alarm clock. Then I dusted all of it, used cleaner to wipe down each item, and used furniture polish on the top of the night stand. It looks so nice! I cannot remember the last time it looked so nice! 20 years ago??? I am proud of myself. I also made a new rule for this challenge: I can move items off a surface for this thread, but then I can NOT put it back when organizing another space. Every newly organized space I count here, has to STAY organized. No shifting stuff around. If there is no home for an item by the time I finish a room, then it needs to leave the premises. 1/100 | |
| Lila | Posted: 11 April 2025 - 05:43 PM |
4 bedroom dresser drawers, emptied, sorted, and organized. Several things donated or thrown out. 5/100 | |
| Lila | Posted: 15 June 2025 - 08:58 PM |
Master bathroom vanity 8/100 | |