Putting Our Life in Order

So, there are a few of you devoted readers who may know that neither Tim nor I are very organized... Ok, that may be an understatement - our apartment is about as chaotic as you could imagine.  I like to think it is because we have our priorities straight - we would rather spend time with each other than clean :).

Unfortunately, this strategy is beginning to wear on my sanity. Maybe it is because I grew up with a notorious neat freak (sorry, Mom), but I'm just not used to living in the wake of a tornado.

So, I have come up with a plan, and that plan is to clean and organize the apartment and keep it that way.

Simple, right?  Apparently not.

The more I think about it, the more daunting this task is. So, I'm going to try to tackle it room by room.

Step One: The Bedroom

• Purge the closets - we have more clothes than any two twenty somethings should ever have.
• Put away all of the dirty and clean clothes and get them off the floor (and keep them off!)
• Finish my new DIY jewelry organizer
• Decorate the walls - we have a few posters we want to get and frame
• Put up a couple shelves for odds and ends
• Get the floor cleared off enough to vaccuum...
• ...Vaccuum the floor

Step Two:  The Bathroom

• Find an old CD tower to repurpose and hang on the wall for organizing skin care products, etc.
• Get some shelves for the wall nook by the shower for spare towels
• Paint the bathroom (we have to get permission from the super first...)

Step Three:  The Kitchen

• Finish unpacking the new china from the wedding
• Wash all of the new china
• Clean out the spice cabinet
• Get a binder with plastic sleeves for all of my recipes
• Reorganize the tops of the cabinets

Step Four:  The Living Room

• Get another end table
• Get a silk plant for atop the end table
• Sort through and throw away the stuff behind the couches
• Clean out the entryway closets and make use of our storage locker
• Clean out the desk
• Get all the stuff off of the dining chairs

Whew... That is the master list. I suppose we will have to tackle it one weekend at a time - my goal being to finish it all before Speech season starts. We have until the second weekend in November then.

I'll start with the bedroom this weekend :)

Hopefully each time I post I will have finished  a new task and will have found some fun tip or DIY project to post as well.