The Room

Every so often (and it isn’t very often), I attempt to clean my room.  Sometimes I get it tidy enough, but a few weeks later it’s back to where it started.  I just can’t seem to figure out how to organize things and to keep things organized.  I’d bought this small filing cabinet a few years ago, but after a while, I got too lazy to actually put my documents in there.  None of the folders are even labeled.  My computer desk was at one point completely clutter-free, but for the last year it’s just been covered in papers and crap.

Today, being one of my last few days off before work, I was feeling like I should be productive with my time.  Although, lazy.  I didn’t start some cleaning up until the afternoon.  I was chatting with a friend at the time about how horrible my room was, and she said that hers was worse.  I decided to prove her wrong and took a digital photo of the mess to show her.  She agreed that mine was worse.

So, I cleared about 2 square feet of my floor in front of my closet and then started to gather envelopes that were lying about.  By 11pm tonight, I’d gone through 32 bank statements, 21 credit card statements, as well as a bunch of other things regarding bills and notices, etc.  That’s almost 3 years of bank statements and 2 years of credit card statements that I’d left lying around!  But all that has barely dented the task at hand.

I’m not quite sure what I should tackle next…  Possibly my pay stubs and the rest of the envelopes.  My boyfriend keeps telling me I need to start at a high level and just group things.  But there really isn’t much space to group things in my room.  And it’s a bit of a hassle if this is a multi-day event.  I don’t think my parents will like me leaving junk in the hallway either.  We’ll see how productive I feel tomorrow.

Posted by tastethehappy January 2008

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