Monday, January 5, 2009

Simplicity Project #1



Happy New Year everyone! I pray you all had a wonderful holiday and that 2009 is off to a good start. It is for us. We got so much done over the holiday. I'm dreading the return to work tomorrow a little bit but that's life isn't it?

So here we go. Our first Simplicity Project for the year. I had planned to start small but since the Christmas decorations had to be taken down and put away, there was no better place to start than with our storage unit full of stuff. Now let me give a small disclaimer . . . this picture does not include the mounds of boxes and stuff that was temporarily located on my bedroom floor when I captured this shot. So much of the decor was dumped there as we began gathering it to put it up. So although the "before" picture looks bad, it was really a lot worse!

What do you think? Are we organized or what? What you also cannot see is the box of Christmas decorations that we are giving to Good Will. Woo hoo! Let the purging begin! I feel like I have so much "space" in my life already.

BEFORE


AFTER

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nicely done Jess!! Keep it up girlfriend!

It's interesting, the Lord impressed a similar theme on my heart as I started the year - "Order" kept coming up in my time with Him. So I spent last week reorganizing closets, piling stuff up to take to Goodwill, and setting some new schedule and financial boundaries. I've started small too...but already feel lighter. Awesome! Love you!!