Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Decluttering

I am in a decluttering mindset and I have extra motivation now that we have decided to try again to refinance our home mortgage. We need to have the best appraisal possible, so we have decided to fix our house up almost as if we were trying to sell it.

Here is a list of some things I want to accomplish as soon as possible:

1.) Unpack remaining two boxes of basement cabinet items
2.) Permanently get rid of the tiny little pieces of this and that on the kitchen island
3.) Go through books and get rid of those I am done with
4.) Go through girls' toys and box up things they are done with
5.) Spend some time in ds's room decluttering and then making it look nice. (His room has a way of being a pit, but not always looking like it is.)
6.) Unpack the few totes of items left to unpack in garage and sort, discard and/or put away items
7.) Complete laundry and keep it up!
8.) Box up all girl clothing that no longer fits
9.) Review toy storage and perhaps buy some storage baskets from the Container Store to more nicely store toys.
10.) Declutter girls' dressers (tops).
11.) Declutter girls' room.
12.) Unpack boxes in my bedroom
13.) Declutter my bedroom, including dresser tops
14.) Clean bathrooms often and declutter toys on main bathroom floor
15.) Keep dishes up so that the kitchen stays nice looking
16.) Create box for Goodwill, Half Price Books, SIL and the resale
17.) Clean off fireplace mantel
18.) Clean crayon markings off walls
19.) Straighten up bonus room
20.) Walk the house and create of list of what is left after doing all of the above.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow Susan sounds like a good plan. I need to do something like that...