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Organizing Pays Off and Contest Info

By Janette | Before and After, Projects

 

Greetings!  Jordan hasn’t written much lately because she and Mr. Spring took a much needed ski vacation and are now finishing up a major home project.  She will have pictures to share next week.  You’ll be impressed.  I know I am.

 

Before I go on, remember that we are having a contest here at The 2 Seasons to celebrate our January birthdays and our blog’s first anniversary.  You can win a $50 gift card to The Container Store.  You have one, two, or three ways of winning.  Go here for details.

 

When we decided to give a gift card to The Container Store, I took a good look at my own office and it wasn’t pretty.

 

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My office is in the pantry, opposite the bake station.  Here is a quick shot of it looking its best.  You can take a complete tour of it  here.

 

 

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This is what it looked like yesterday.  It wasn’t a pretty sight.  I was dealing with left over Christmas boxes and paper work, coupons, lists, and just stuff.

 

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I didn’t have much in the cabinets, but what was there was a mess.

 

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The electronic mumbo-jumbo was just crammed onto a shelf.  The cabinet drawers didn’t look much better.  I’ll spare you photos of them.

 

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At least I had already put all of my cables and booklets in baggies and labeled them.

 

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See, I told you that organizing pays off.  This was hiding in the corner of one of the drawers.  Cha-ching!!!

 

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After just a little over an hour, one cabinet looked like this.  I went paper-free on all of my banking last January, and so my files have very little in them.  That in itself is a huge way to eliminate stuff.

 

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All of the electronic crap items are now in a bin.  It still isn’t so neat, but at least everything is contained.

 

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I put my Nano and point and shoot camera on a shelf  so I can grab them before heading out.

 

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And here is my desk top now.

 

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Ahhhh, much better.

 

Take care.

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  1. Jane @ Cottage at the Crossroads says

    January 4, 2012 at 10:23 pm

    Your office looks super organized now! I have been doing the same thing today, and it will continue tomorrow, I’m afraid. It had suffered serious neglect over the past few months!

  2. Carol Haynes says

    January 6, 2012 at 6:45 am

    Love your blog – Thanks for sharing your homes,ideas and creative projects.

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