My feet are swollen and tired and I really just want a bubble bath and an extra long nap because I spent more than five hours cleaning out and organizing our master bedroom closet and the storage closet yesterday! (Plus another two hours cleaning up the rest of the house after everything was in shambles from the closet clean-up!)
I’ll explain everything in my video below, but here’s the basic back story: I moved into our apartment in mid-July, and Riley joined me once we were married, so we’ve been here for a little more than three months. Because the storage options in our apartment are really terrible (tiny pantry and that’s it), we had been using our master bedroom closet (the only viable storage space) as our dumping ground for everything that didn’t have a home…which was a lot. Wait until you see it. It is SO far from what I consider acceptable that I can barely even get through the part of the video where I show you the “before.” I was laughing as I was editing it!
Anyway, two nights ago, our apartment complex left us a notice asking us to please remove all items from our storage closet (it has an outdoor entrance off our patio) so that maintenance could access a water line in it (or something like that). Once all of the junk from the outdoor storage closet was piled up in our living room, I decided it was finally time to bite the bullet and dedicate an entire day to cleaning out our master bedroom closet as well. I documented everything in my video below. (It’s hilarious how worn out I look by the end!)
Take a look at my deepest, darkest organizational secret–and how I cleaned my act up! You can watch the video below or here on YouTube. (Wait until you hear what creepy crawly critter I found–EEK!)
…and that’s how I spent my entire day yesterday! But, at least it’s completely organized now, right? I would love for it to be organized and pretty, but with as little storage space as we have right now, utilitarian is all I can really hope for! I mentioned The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up at the end of my video (read my honest review here), and that book was a big driver in getting through my closets and cleaning them out (though I admittedly didn’t follow the author’s system exactly, I did get rid of a lot and really thought through what I was keeping–I hope to “KonMari” my entire apartment in the coming months!).
So…what do you think of my closet overhaul? Have you organized anything overwhelming lately? Getting these two closets back to functional and clean was an all day endeavor, but SO very worth it! I keep visiting my master closet just to soak up the joy of it! 🙂
Good job B!! xoxo
Thanks babe! Love you!
xo,
b
You are so funny!! You dust busted it!! I am going to watch this video over and over until I make myself clean out my closets. I also find it cray cray that my husband’s stuff could still fit into one large box. The rest of the house is all my stuff. How does that happen?
Hahaha I whipped that dust buster out faster than you can even imagine! Here’s to getting our stuff together–since our husbands have nothing! 🙂
xo,
b
We don’t have enough hangers btw
I know boo, and they’re all mismatched, which you know I don’t do. 😉 One step at a time! Love you.
xo,
b
Love these kinds of posts, but it’s so much easier when you can read instead of watch! (a.k.a. I can’t watch the videos at work, but I can read your posts!)
Hah! I guess your boss wouldn’t approve of you watching YouTube? 😉 Only a few more hours until you get home and can watch it as loud as you’d like!
xo,
b
Loved the video! I enjoy organizing so much (altough it’s exhausting). I laughed a lot with the random penguin head and the scorpion with the most uncommon death.
HAH! Yes, there was so much random stuff–and that scorpion was almost the end of me! 😉 Thanks for watching and happy organizing!
xo,
b
Hi Blair! I cant remember how i came across your blog but i really like your postings!! I have already taken so many ideas n inspirations from you I live in europe n due to the time difference i receive your newest updates only in the afternoon, but it has become one of my favourite afternoon coffee break treats already Maybe you also wanna do a post on your house cleaning schedule?Best wishes olivia
Hey Olivia! Thank you so much for reading and commenting–you’re too sweet! 🙂 Your comment inspired me–tomorrow, I’m posting my home cleaning routine! Yay! Thanks!!
xo,
b
Hey there! I just read it- again great post! Thx so much for sharing. it makes me wanna go out, buy new cleaning stuff n get going:-)
Xo
Olivia
Yay!!! Happy tidying! 🙂
xo,
b
My copy of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” just arrived,so I can’t wait to start reading it! Also, thanks for inspiring a humorous debate between my boyfriend and I about the best way to dispose of a scorpion (we both have zero experience with them)!
Yay!! Let me know what you think about it. Oh, I would LOVE to hear what this scorpion debate entails! Hilarious! 🙂
xo,
b
After joking about crazy possibilities, his final stance was to beat it with a shoe. I did some research online before taking my final stance. Did you know that some scorpions can flatten themselves to be as thin as a coin? Crazy! I found out that stores carry tools that are like long tweezers to catch the scorpions and squeeze them to death. That way you don’t have to get too close to them and can make sure they’re dead. Of course, my boyfriend still thinks a shoe would do just fine 🙂
AHH! They can flatten themselves?! That is terrifying!! I have to say, I think I’m with your boyfriend on this one–I want to be as far away from them as possible. An arm’s length sounds a lot better to me than a hand’s length!! EEK! 😉
xo,
b
Oh, I want to be as far away as possible as well. That’s why I’m for using the long tweezer-like tool. He would use a shoe, and that’s not nearly far away enough for my comfort level! Hope you don’t have to deal with any more scorpions!