Progress

Feeling pretty pleased with myself for making some progress this afternoon.  ;o)  I had planned to get on with going through the bed linen this afternoon but when I arrived home E had found a long lost item in a bag in the airing cupboard and it set me to thinking "What else is lurking in there?".  So, on a whim, I decided to declutter in there.  At the moment it's part airing cupboard, part storage, part dumping ground for coats and shoes etc.  When it hits top of the list this area will be opened out to expand the entrance so this is a temporary measure but, my word, it certainly needed looking at!  So, here we go with some before and after pics, yay! ;o)
The door was cluttered mainly with bags and coats...

and now...

The floor was just a massive heap of boots, shoes and assorted bags, oh and the cool bag lobbed in after our holiday last week...

The shoes and boots that aren't being worn regularly have been dispatched to their respective owner's wardrobes and, look, there's floor under there...

Underneath that heap of coats there's a row of hooks and the green thing is one of those hanging jobbies with pockets...

Again, coats that won't be used over the summer have gone to wardrobe land and those that are well past their usefulness have been binned and now it looks like this....

Next up we have the shelving area....top shelf, just a big jumble of bags mostly....

And now it's just home to my badminton gear...

Second shelf is towels...

Look at this, neat piles??  Whatever next?....

And at the bottom, picnic stuff, waterproofs, outdoory stuff...

And more orderly...

To the right of this, underneath the hot water tank, there's a shelf of vases and beneath that the tent, cool bag and assorted barbecue stuff but I neglected to take a photo of that bit so you'll have to take my word for it when I say that too is much improved.  ;o)

And so, what is the tally for today....

• 20 bags off to the charity shop (honestly, you'd think I have a bag fetish or something!)
• bean bag cover to charity shop
• 3 hats, a pair of boots and a scarf to the charity shop
• barbecue thing, looks a bit like an instrument of torture, to the charity shop
• 12 vases (will let my flower arranging mum look these over at the weekend but they're destined for the charity shop if she doesn't want any of them)
• feather duster (now why would a girl like me want one of those??)
• 3 bags plastic bags into the recycling
• picnic hamper into the garden to become a decorative flower thing "until it rots away" apparently!

This doesn't include the crap that got thrown out and, of course, some stuff was relocated to more appropriate places rather than leaving the premises but even so a happy day.  ;o)  And, just to finish off on a whimsical note, here's Floss after her encounter with the feather duster...