Spring Cleaning ~ Part 2 (The Dreaded Closets)

I have been hit with the Spring Cleaning bug myself lately.  My only wish is that the weather would cooperate.  I think we have only witnessed a single day, maybe two that made it to 55 degrees. 

Last week, I talked about a cleaning map.  Starting at the furthest most part of your home, while you have the most energy.  By doing this, you are far less apt to say to yourself, "Well, no one sees this part of the house anyway." 

Last night, we started cleaning out the laundry room, which has now become the laundry/stockpile/tool room.  I purchased my husband a whole set of power tools this past Christmas, and now, we really needed a place in which to store them.  What did that mean for my stockpile?  Well it means, I needed to find a new area for most of the items I have in our stockpile. 

So today, I have all of our health & beauty items that were downstairs on the shelves in bins on my dining room table, in desperate need of a home of their very own.  A place that I can easily access them, see what I have on hand, and most of all, keep organized.

Each of the closets in our home, and I will say, I am pretty fortunate to have quite a bit of closet space, has a purpose.  1 closet strictly dedicated to Christmas decorations ( I do love my Christmas decorations.), another for seasonal, and camping gear, a coat closet that accommodates all of our guests coats during get togethers, and still more closets for our clothing. 

Closets can become a total disaster.  Often times, we toss items in, and just shut the door, hoping and praying that the next time we open the door, it wont all come tumbling out on top of us, only to be found hours later by a family member.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give, is to not only empty the entire closet first, but place all those items in an area that you see.  I put everything on my dining room table.  By doing this, I HAVE to clean it up, there is no way around it.  It's constant beckoning, wont allow you to put it off for longer than a few hours.