My Passion: Organizing and Dejunking

 I really, really love to organize closets and drawers and make every little corner of my life a little tidier.  I like neat little rows of toilet paper in my storage room, and neatly rolled socks in a drawer just make my heart go thump, thump!  I don't like cleaning at all, though, so most people have no idea that I have really neat cupboards underneath a counter top covered in crumbs and dishes.  Oh, well, we each have our own interests and scrubbing isn't mine.

I recently decided to tackle our food storage, which was a monumental task!  We try to follow the prophet's counsel and have a year's supply of food and personal products in case of emergency, and I think we've done a pretty good job.  Our biggest problem is where to store it all!  We had food in the storage room downstairs and wheat buckets, canned goods, and paper products out in the garage, and the kids never knew where to go to find it all. 

 In order to organize, we had to take everything out of the storage room so we could add more shelves.  The extra shelves held so much more and made everything much easier to find. We also have a wall of shelves to the right of Del and in front of him, so it holds quite a bit.  Big improvement!

In my organizing phase I also decided it was time to get rid of some books.  We have book shelves in every room in our house except the bathrooms, so needless to say, we have a lot of books! We ended up with over 200 books for family and DI (which left some space on my shelves for new ones!).

Next, I tackled my drawer of tights.  I love patterned pantyhose, but it can be hard to find the pair I want for each outfit, so I put them in ziplock bags labeled with a description.  Now they fit better and I can find them easily.  

I have so many more projects to do, so many messy corners in my life, but this was a nice start!