Pinterest - You're killing me...in a good way!

After I wrote my blog post yesterday I ended up staying up close to midnight (SO UNLIKE ME!) doing more organizing projects. See, for several years I have had too much on my plate and would just throw things behind closed doors so I "looked" clean but the reality is that I wasn't clean. Oh, I would try from time to time but the daily grind would keep me from doing what I really wanted to do. So, here I am - sharing my "DIRT" for the world to see - literally!

Between blog entry and bedtime here is what I did:

I would like to see a little more organization in both places but I'll take this for now!

After my "day after Christmas shopping" I came home, relaxed for a bit, and then started on more organizing projects. The biggest project being my closet. Here is what I put aside to donate to Goodwill from my closet:

Goodwill is going to be happy to see me tomorrow!

Here is what I did to my closet, though:

You can't see it in the pictures but there is a space to the right of the closet that was FULL. Now I just have my triathlon transition bag and my duffel bag ready to grab at any moment and head to the gym. I even had enough space left over on the top that I was able to put two blankets, my foam roller and "the stick" (my triathlon "therapy" products - not pictured). I must say that I really need to learn how to do some kind of sewing (I used to know how to back in college) because I'd like to take some of those two full shelves of race T-shirts and make a quilt or scarf out of them (another wonderful Pinterest idea!). And this is after letting go of about 5-10 race shirts today!

Now for the big SHOCKER!!! After I took this picture I realized just how messy my "under the sink" cabinet was! I felt like someone should have put me on the show "Hoarders!" It never seemed that messy to me but because I have an abundance of toilet paper right now it looks like this stuff was just all thrown in there in a big hoarded mess! And, to some extent I guess it was. Anyway, I'm proud to say that I have a re-purposed box under my sink to hold my tea light candles, I have an organized first aid kit (which is now in need of Band-aids because apparently the boxes in the cabinet were fully used!) Get ready for the shocker because here it is.....

So there you have it. I'm all "naked" in front of you with my dirty/messy/hoarded house! Now if I can just get everyone around here to help keep it put together like the "after" shots then I'd be doing good!