The Wrong Sizes Clothing Storage Clean Up

Well, I got the decluttering / nesting bug.  This room was a mess; here's what I did.  My before pictures are not really before pictures; I took them about an hour into the project.

BEFORE:

 

What you see here are piles clothing and trash that needs to be organized and sorted.  All of this used to be piled in the L shape of our shelving.

 

Here is the L shape corner, cleaned out so I can work there with new boxes to sort those piles and bags.

 

See the 6 boxes on the shelf?  Those are one box per age such as 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 9 months, etc.  I now have 15 or so boxes.  I decided to keep one box per size for the most part.  My size 3, 4, 5 have a couple of boxes because I have children moving into those sizes in the next year.

AFTER:

This took me about 3 hours or so.

The giveaway pile.  Not as much as I expected to get rid of.  Part of me wishes it was more, but there were not as many clothes there as I thought there was.  The pile only needed to be organized.

  

The box in the middle of the floor there is a box I found upstairs that still needs to be sorted, but it is the only box left to be sorted!  I will go through the clothing in the drawers at some point and get rid of more clothing, but for now, I'm done!  Also, I have a couple of piles on the shelf; I ran out of boxes before I got finished and the store was closed when J went to pick me up more.  We'll pick those up on Monday and finish up the job.

 

 Just another storage shelf as the other ones were full already.

I really enjoyed my afternoon.  I was very tired by the time I was done.  I took one long break - to make and eat lunch.  As a reward, J took us out for supper.  I hope to continue this trend (not the eating out) and finish up the rest of the basement, because honestly, I just shoved whatever I wasn't working with further down the room.  It is FAR from clean.  But those shelves LOOK GOOD!

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,