For the next Clear Out the Clutter project, I tackled the kid’s desk. It’s a clutter magnet. Three of the kids use the desk regularly, and it seems like no matter how many times I straighten the desk up and remove items, more comes to take the place of the items that were removed.
Here’s the before picture:
And after about 10 minutes of cleaning and clearing things off of the desk, here’s the after picture:
I threw some things away, put some things away in the kid’s closet, and put some items on their bookshelf. The end result is a much cleaner desk. The piles of school papers and workbooks is smaller and things are much easier to find now.
I did lose my wedding ring in the process.
But I found it after retracing my steps. I had no idea it came off until I went to upload the pics for this post and realized it was missing. It turns out that it slipped off when I was putting some of the kid’s magazines and papers on their bookshelf.
Whew! Glad I found it.
Have you done any de-cluttering this week?Β
I have the same problem with my wedding ring! When it’s off, it still feels like it’s on my finger, so I don’t even notice that it’s not there until I look down at my hand. And in the cold weather months, it tends to slip off more often because my hands get cold and shrink a little bit.