dsnycrzy
W/4 kids who has time for anything else but planni
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What a great idea
!!! The disboards rock!!!! Well I will join this club since my complex management said I have too much stuff in my basement. I used to work at a store and when they went out of business, I took a lot of their industrial shelving home. They are all along my basement and COMPLETELY FILLED
. So 2 weeks ago I finally agreed that there is a lot of unnecessary stuff down there. I'll start from on area all the way around, first there is an areas with totes of stuff, and then an area with boxes and totes of xmas, 4 shelves of Barbie houses and things associated with making them into Monster high or just designer doll houses. A shelf with my DD's barbie cars and 2 totes full of barbies and barbie stuff. Next shelf has her Barbie houses and schools, next to that is a shelf jam packed with baby dolls and their furniture. Next to that is a shelf with all little people toys, the whole town, then a shelf with DS4 toy boxes full of who knows what, next to that is a shelf which has Ninja turtle toys and Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes from when my oldest DS, now 20, was younger, Last on this side is the shelf also jam packed with book, puzzles and games. The washer and dryer are near each other and then there is a shelf that has all my stuff for work (Im a preschool teacher) and it is also jam packed. Now we are back to the area that has a bunch of totes from where I started out. First I tackled the book shelf. completely cleared it out. I saved one bin for my DD13's books and a bin for my DS4's books. The rest I put aside to donate. Next was a 6 drawer plastic dresser thing in the middle of the floor. I cleaned this out bc it was also baby doll stuff like doll clothes and bottles,etc. In this I put the games and puzzles. My dreaded work shelf. 
I sorted everything according to theme (camping, beach, winter wonderland,etc) and put it together. Then I went through all my paperwork and saved all originals and got rid of all the copies and other junk I really didn't need. Then the corner of totes...3 of which were baby clothes (I did say my baby was now 4
. Everything except jeans and a few cute jackets were saved, everything else went out. Then my disney party totes, sorted them by movie and put it all together neatly. Then I went over to the baby doll shelf and got to work. My DD will be 14 in August and my other DD just turned 23 last week yet I had tons and tons of baby dolls. I proudly set aside all the expensive ones and bagged up the rest for the thrift store.
Then I went for the barbie doll bins bc she's now a monster high and ever after high kinda girl. All barbies in ok shape were set in the thrift store bag and the broken ones were trashed. That was in one weekend and can I tell you how proud I am of myself. and I wasn't done and can't wait to finish.
!!! The disboards rock!!!! Well I will join this club since my complex management said I have too much stuff in my basement. I used to work at a store and when they went out of business, I took a lot of their industrial shelving home. They are all along my basement and COMPLETELY FILLED. So 2 weeks ago I finally agreed that there is a lot of unnecessary stuff down there. I'll start from on area all the way around, first there is an areas with totes of stuff, and then an area with boxes and totes of xmas, 4 shelves of Barbie houses and things associated with making them into Monster high or just designer doll houses. A shelf with my DD's barbie cars and 2 totes full of barbies and barbie stuff. Next shelf has her Barbie houses and schools, next to that is a shelf jam packed with baby dolls and their furniture. Next to that is a shelf with all little people toys, the whole town, then a shelf with DS4 toy boxes full of who knows what, next to that is a shelf which has Ninja turtle toys and Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes from when my oldest DS, now 20, was younger, Last on this side is the shelf also jam packed with book, puzzles and games. The washer and dryer are near each other and then there is a shelf that has all my stuff for work (Im a preschool teacher) and it is also jam packed. Now we are back to the area that has a bunch of totes from where I started out. First I tackled the book shelf. completely cleared it out. I saved one bin for my DD13's books and a bin for my DS4's books. The rest I put aside to donate. Next was a 6 drawer plastic dresser thing in the middle of the floor. I cleaned this out bc it was also baby doll stuff like doll clothes and bottles,etc. In this I put the games and puzzles. My dreaded work shelf. I sorted everything according to theme (camping, beach, winter wonderland,etc) and put it together. Then I went through all my paperwork and saved all originals and got rid of all the copies and other junk I really didn't need. Then the corner of totes...3 of which were baby clothes (I did say my baby was now 4. Everything except jeans and a few cute jackets were saved, everything else went out. Then my disney party totes, sorted them by movie and put it all together neatly. Then I went over to the baby doll shelf and got to work. My DD will be 14 in August and my other DD just turned 23 last week yet I had tons and tons of baby dolls. I proudly set aside all the expensive ones and bagged up the rest for the thrift store.Then I went for the barbie doll bins bc she's now a monster high and ever after high kinda girl. All barbies in ok shape were set in the thrift store bag and the broken ones were trashed. That was in one weekend and can I tell you how proud I am of myself. and I wasn't done and can't wait to finish.
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. Yes I am part of the 5 foot 1 crew. So 2 of those plus 4 plastic bins and some stuff just laying on top. Since cleaning and getting rid of so much stuff, I had a bunch of plastic bin that were now empty so I sorted the xmas stuff out- lights, ornaments, bags and boxes, decorations, crafts, plush and dolls, etc and put them in bins and got rid of the boxes. Now xmas is organized, the bins have a place and some stuff was added to the donation pile and some to the trash. Next I went upstairs and broke my broken 70in tv down to pieces and took it all to the dumpster. It was broken and had been sitting in my living room, covering my fireplace for a few weeks now. Before that it was in the closet for about 2 years but since cleaning out the closet, its been in the way in my living room. So thats now DONE
. I have another section to sort and trash/donate but I got tired and called it a day. I will try to go back down tomorrow although I have to go food shopping and do a disney party so I may have to get to it Monday.
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). Also other family photos that of course I don't want to throw away. I have a few plastic totes of them. Any suggestions
I will go into sorting out all the toys that are in the "keep" bins and getting them back on a shelf. I have a long weekend coming up and my goal is to be DONE with the basement and moving on to my bedroom closet. Number count of bags in the dining room is 11, 4 are regular trash can bags and the other 7 are the giant leaf bags i guess they are called. There is 3 milk crates, 2 of books and 1 of a bratz house. I have a tea cart and a little fold out couch for a toddler and another large doll toy, all ready to go. I brought up 3 of those leaf sized bags of trash items which my son threw out of xmas, and stuff from my house making stuff. I am open tomorrow and Thursday before work to get some done, so I may do an hour or so each day.
