July 2013: Cleaning the House, July 20, 2013

I continued working on the living room shelf tonight.  Tonight was cubes 2 and 3.  It was nice to get further progress.  A lot of stuff on those shelves didn't belong there (a common theme).  Much of it, to my surprise, just needs to be filed.  I really need to get my filing cabinets in my den set up properly--and I also need to go use my den more often.  But it's the farthest away room in the house--which when you realize that my house is approximately 26' by 26', you know at most it's not that far away.  But I need to move some boxes before I can get into my den easily.  Maybe it is time to get back to my utility room...

Anyway, Cube 2 started off pretty easily--it had a couple of phone books (yes), envelopes, a gift bag, and some tennis shoes.

I keep the phone books for one reason: recently we had a power outage.  Someone I know mentioned that they couldn't get to the internet (I'm not sure whether or not they have a smart phone, so I have to leave it vague).  They had thrown away their phone books because they figured they could always look up what they needed to online.  Okay, I'll keep a phone book or two around.  Just not the giant old fashioned ones. 

But not in Cube 2.  Tennis shoes and phone books aren't things that belong together in any way.  And as soon as I have a better spot for the tennis shoes, they won't be there, either.

So, Cube 3 was my biggest mess, because I can reach it from my living room chair, where I'm now sitting.  I could just stash stuff there as I was working on my computer(s).  It's entirely too convenient.

Going through this had to be like an archaeological dream!  There were quite a few things thrown into the recycling bin--or shredded!--and a number of things put into my giant pile for filing.  Someday, I'll get through that pile, and we'll all be happy.  But for now, it's not on the convenient Cube 3.

Doesn't that look much better?  (I don't know why I have two boxes of business envelopes and one box of letter envelopes here.  Now that I think about, they should be in the basement.)  Plus my calculator and financial journal (where I keep track of my house payments) are easily accessible from my chair!  Win!