The kitchen re-do is coming along. The pantry came home on Monday afternoon -- and I'm slowly working on getting the dishes out of my bedroom and back into the kitchen. It's becoming one of those annoying/wonderful projects where it seems like every piece I put into the kitchen means a little tweak of organization and a little bit more of a puzzle for later. That entertains me greatly, but it's also very time consuming.
Because I'm organizing the kitchen -- which will eventually lead to reorganizing the living room -- I'm also organizing everywhere else. It just boils over into every other room. It's not ideal -- finishing one room at a time would be better, right? -- but it's kind of fun.
Organizing is part finding the right home for things, part getting rid of things I don't actually use.
Above is a rather shady representation of most of the baby clothes my kiddo has worn from size 6 month to size 24 month. Not all -- I already sent some of the best stuff off to a friend. I ultimately donated 6 of the diaper sized boxes worth of clothes. I kept 1 of the green bins stuffed full of things in case another friend has another child. I have two much smaller piles for two other friends, and a very small pile of 'sentimental' pieces. But a whole lot of it went off to a clothing bank.
Whew -- that cleared up a whole lot of space in the kiddo's closet!
While I was digging around in there, I also started working on another project: trying to organize what's coming up in the kiddo closet. I have some hand-me-downs and some 'oh, it's on clearance!' pieces waiting for the kiddo to grow into them. Problem is, I end up shopping with no idea what else I already have in that size.
There are some digital closet organization apps (did you know that? I didn't!), but I went with a simple solution:
These quick cell phone snaps of the various piles, with tiny scribbled notes, help me keep tabs on what I've got and what I need. That 3T pile is looking pretty good -- lots of long sleeve shirts (more than fit in the photo) but no shorts and only 3 short sleeve tops. In addition to the photos, I typed up a quick memo on my phone with the numbers of long sleeve, short sleeve, pants, shorts, coats, and other items per size. So now I have a quick visual of the amounts and colors, as well as a more detailed count.
I'm pretty thrilled with this quick solution, and I think it's going to save me a lot of wondering as I'm shopping the clearance racks and sales.
My other organization steps so far aren't digital -- chalk board labels abound -- but I'm having a blast doing it, and most of it is much easier to accept kiddo style help!
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