Declaring Order in a Storage Room - Drifts

     Was too busy with volunteer school reading programs for personal pleasure reading.  Re-read the same first sentence, "It was not my fault," of my book club book, Amy Tan's, Saving Fish From Drowning, at least six times.  Had decided to attend the meeting without reading the book.
     As luck would have it, book club was rescheduled!  In anticipation of an impending blizzard, a new date was selected.  I was off the hook - so to speak.

Snow drift

     An organizing book, The Clutter Cure, caught my attention after a sweaty bout of driveway drift shoveling...    
     The first sentence, "Why are you keeping that old thing?" was amusing, as it went quite nicely with, "It was not my fault."  Which got me to thinking about the "Declaring Order in a Storage Room" project (see archives).   It was left unfinished due to unexpected illness and the heavily anticipated blizzards...

Fortunately, the blizzard of leftovers (read - memories) had been left in manageable drifts...

Purple Drift

Light Blue Drift

"It was not my fault."  
Into each life, a little snow must fall.
And I'll get back to clearing those drifts.
Right after I finish 
(Er...re-re-re-re-re-re-re-start!) 
my book...

Declaring Order in a Storage Room - The Gift That Keeps on Giving

With the fast and furious
dump/recycle complete...
(please refer to blog archives) 

What is "left" in the leftovers?

Photo 1 - Colorful Donations for Goodwill

Photo 2 - School Papers for Recycling

Photo 3 - A Gift Certificate for a Beloved Teacher?!?

Expires 6/2011

...OOPS!

Brought it to school and gave it to her.
Seven months late!  She was tickled :)

Declaring Order in a Storage Room - Praying for Daylight

Always smart to start a large project 

the day before garbage pick-up day :)   

One day, three garbage cans, 

and four recycle bins later...

Patches of empty carpet emerge in the holding area!

Let there be light!

Scattered furniture returns to storage room.

Chairs reunite!

Nerf Gun ammunition commandeers an empty shelf?

That industrious kid again...
May have to negotiate :)

Next up...the leftovers. 

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called 

memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind 

and the cupboard of the heart." ~ Thomas Fuller

Declaring Order in a Storage Room. Easy as 1, 2,...hey?

1.  Holding area.  Prepped.

ONE HOUR LATER...

2.  Holding area.  Bursting!

MEANWHILE...

Inspiration...

Industrious kid commandeers newly cleaned shelves for Nerf Gun Storage...Hey!

More tomorrow.  Time for a COKE.

"A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking." ~ Arthur McBride Bloch

Declaring Order in a Storage Room - The First Bite

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, 

and then chewing anyway.  ~Mark Burnett

 

One hour later...

Stay tuned :)