Empty Spaces

Who knew I could find this much space in my closet?!

In joining Simple Mom's Project: Simplify, our assigned task for this week was to clean out the closet. My master bedroom closet is probably the greatest "dumping ground" in our house as it is fairly large and, has multiple shelves for storage. Hence, things like a bag of empty plastic Easter eggs, my children's collection of memorabilia, empty electronics boxes, and pictures that hung on the walls in previous houses gather here to commiserate their lack of a better home.

My biggest challenge was reassigning some of those items to other areas. I did accumulate a small pile of items to donate and am pleased with how much neater my closet looks.

The stack of boxes that remain are mostly books - those that my girls have outgrown, but I can't part with, and some that I'm saving for when they're older. A side benefit was that I unearthed all of our photo albums and arranged them on the shelves in one of the empty spaces. Since they are out in the open instead of buried in a tub, our children can access them whenever they want to see photos of "when they were little." Now the struggle will be to keep from adding more things into the other empty spaces!

Have you cleaned out part of your house recently? In which area do you tend to put all those items for which you can't find a home?