Pretty much everyone one who knows me even a little knows that I have a little problem. Some closer to me might call it a BIG problem. It's yarn. OK, there it is, out in the open for everyone to see. The first part is admitting you have a problem, right? So I've done it. We don't need to hammer into the ground the size of the problem, let's just move on alright?
In an effort to de-clutter our home Allen and I (well mostly Allen ) have a list. Every room with the problem areas. The overall goal is to get control over enough things to be able to get the walls of the main house painted (I'd like to get to the kids' rooms too but that might be next year's project) and get actual flooring put in. I have three main areas to focus on -
1. Kitchen table - This is where I work from home. There are piles of papers and notebooks relating to work as well as mail that comes in and needs to be sorted and bills, both paid and unpaid. I'm a total nut when it comes to NOT printing things so when I do have to deal with paper I have no method to deal with it. Was the same when I worked in the office and was required to bring printed things to meetings.
2. The small bathroom (aka Mom's bathroom) - Very tight space. Past attempts to organize were containers and boxes that now overflow with miscellaneous bathroom-y things and laundry.
3. The "yarn area" in the living room - This is the big, bad boy of a mess. It's not just one area it's roughly 1/3 of the room. Zero organization, and more fibre than anyone could use in a lifetime. This doesn't include the yarn in the bedroom and the books in the family room but I'm sure eventually that will get taken care of in this plan.
At this point I know my relatives who seem to have been born with an organizational gene are cringing at this. I'm sorry to say life often gets in the way of things and the more lives you're dealing with the more things there are to get in the way. 'nuf said.
So here's the plan....
1. For the kitchen table, there is no [long-term] plan. I assume access to my filing cabinet could help however it is under equipment as part of the recording studio and the drawers can only be opened about 2 inches before hitting an instrument or some kind of equipment. I can sort thru the existing papers and accumulated junk mail but the problem will continue to resurface until I have a way to manage the paper and that might take rearranging the studio....that's not on the list. So I just need to bite the bullet, slog thru the papers for now and we'll return to this one at a later date.
2. This is where it starts to get exciting. Maybe it's because I get to use tools! About 5 or so years ago I saw this thing at 3. And then there’s the subject of this whole thing – the yarn. I will post the embarrassing pictures as I tackle this project but for now lets just focus on the solution. I was thinking of some kind of storage unit(s) with 12x12 cubes like I’ve often seen in yarn stores. At Target one unit of 9 cubes was about $40. One of my favorite stores is Big Lots. I don’t get there much since they closed our office last year and there’s none close to our house. Occasionally I’ll wander up to the one near the old office and still get the weekly ad in my email. About a week and a half ago I saw they had storage units on sale. I really liked this 9 Cube Storage unit but I knew I would need several. At $99.99 each, too pricey. But they did have a 72" 5 Shelf Bookcase on sale for $27.99 Coupled with my Buzz Club Rewards “20% off your entire purchase” this came in at pennies more than $22 each. 4 of them was less than the cost of the one! I love finding a bargain!
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| 5 Shelf Bookcase |
May God bless your stitches,
nance
