New Year Ultra-Declutter!

Hello blog; yes, it is that time again for my annual existential fight against the urge to getting rid of everything I own versus just doing a mild but useful de-cluttering of everything in the apartment.

I normally am the sort of person to go through the things that I have about once a month, in intervals and get rid of anything superfluous that resides in my possession. I like big empty spaces, I like things clean, I like things out of the way and I like things organized. Almost to the point where it gets mildly crazy. When I was much younger, (I'm talking like 10 or so) I noticed that I would take from guests what they removed from shelves and then immediately put it back where it belonged. I would also throw away things that I owned on a regular basis and moved all the furniture in my room around on a regular basis. I can to the conclusion that this was probably not the best behavior to exhibit so I began to force myself to leave one or two items of clothing on the floor to "cover" for my overly clean bedroom. Since then I have battled with the need to keep things really really really organized...

Anyway, I have a list of things to go through and so far I have done a bit of it but there still remains much to be covered. And of course, since I live with another person, I can't just go throwing away and donating most everything we own without his vote.

- Switch out dark bedroom curtains with the bright ones
- Reorganize and sort through all shelves
- Move shelf out of bedroom and rearrange living room shelves.
- Check for expired medicines in bathroom
- Go through make-up and other toiletries and remove anything old/gross
- Clean out excessive kitchen supplies, utensils, gadgets
- Go through clothing and remove anything not worn, falling apart
- Get Zachariah to go through clothes and junk on dresser
- Organize and sort through hallway and above closet storage stuff
- Organize and sort through under bed storage
- Vacuum carpet
- Laundry
- Do dishes
- Drop off books for donation


And I guess it goes without saying Zachariah helps with all the cleaning stuff too. And it is nice to have someone else around to help incase I run into any other surprise fish hooks.