What I did today (so far)

We've moved twice this past year and each time I realize that we have lots of stuff. Stuff that I'm not sure why we keep and stuff I just haven't had the time or energy to go through. Well, a couple weeks ago I decided to go through the boxes in our spare room. I got pretty far, weeded out a bunch, made piles of yard sale items, give away items, and trash. Unfortunately something came up (like "mom are you ever going to feed us?") and the project was left like this:

A HORRIBLE ugly shameful mess!!

Today I made up my mind that I better get it cleaned up. (We have company coming Saturday, always a good motivator!)

In about a 1/2 hour it looked like this...


A couple more minutes and...aaah, that's better!

With all these little kiddos around, something else we have a lot of are shoes. I hadn't come up with a clever way to keep them organized so they all ended up in a bin

then when anyone wanted to find their's it required searching and mostly, dumping out the bin.
A new plan was desperately needed.
I came across another blog that led me to the IKEA store online. I browsed a bit and then just for fun searched to see if there was one near us. I was excited to find there was!! So we checked it out. Now, if you've never been there (like I hadn't) I must warn you the place is massive. Very cool, but you must allot yourself more than the 30 minutes that I had.
Okay back to my shoe problem...at IKEA I found:

for $6.99!!

After I came home I transformed this messy closet


Into a better organized space for the shoes!

I labeled each cubbie with the kids names. Now they know where to put their shoes and they aren't digging through everyone else's to find them. :)

I feel pretty productive today. Although, now everyone knows I'm messy and disorganized, hmmm, well at least I'm working on it right??