You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. And, you can't clean your room without making a giant god damn mess. I was all outta eggs this weekend (har har) and decided to tackle the great cluttermonster that is my bedroom.
I know this doesn't fully tie in to the process portion of this blog (though I did learn something valuable), but I feel it is a crucial step in getting ready to start learning. I feel like I am the most successful when I have space around me to think, play, paint, make another mess, whatever. This past weekend, with a 15% off Anthropologie card to blame for it all, I started down the road to room deep cleaning and redecorating.
Perhaps I should have taken a before picture, but I prefer for you to think of me in my *new* state. Forget the caterpillar, this butterfly has a brand new comforter and a snappy room to match. No one needed to see my creative bra-drying-storage or the remnants of what it looks like to fall victim to bronchitis twice in six weeks. Read: my room was totally gross.
Five hours, three trash bags, and four donate-to-goodwill shopping bags later, the room is cleaned, purged, reorganized and redecorated. For extra credit, I also cleaned and purged the bathroom and discovered that I should never buy Robitussin again. Three full bottles are now looming down on me, with their bad-tasteness crowding the upper right hand shelf.
I fully committed to the flip of my closet (the pile of sweaters has been moved into the appropriate under-bed storage, etc.) which means that it will probably snow tomorrow. Sorry about that y'all. My nightstand is no longer a wasteland of books, receipts, cross stitch supplies, and prescription bottles. What a relief to be able to hit the snooze button without causing a landslide. Seriously.
Without going into further detail and alienating clean freaks from my life forever, I'll just say that it was an undertaking that was long overdue! But, well worth it. Here I am on my bed, looking across at the three picture frames I painted with the slightly silly drawings I did filling the empty space until such a time as I can decide what in the world actually GOES with this comforter.
The lesson here is: you have enough. I did the majority of the work in my room by getting RID of things, rather than bringing new things in. Aside from the new bedspread, everything else is re purposed from a different place in my apartment. My closet actually has room in it for the clothes I want to hang up, and despite my attempts to throw away absolutely everything, I realized that I have enough. More than enough, and I'm a lucky lady. For someone like me, that's a lesson I need to be more conscious of now that I have this new Target down the block...
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