Exhaustion ...

[texchan]

So I just spent the last 4 and a half or 5 hours putting stuff back into the office closet. I love getting the closets reorganized and kind of customized to maximize the storage space. But I hate, hate, hate having to load them back up. I never feel confident that I'm using the space as well as possible. And I hate feeling so indecisive and just ... well, whiny (for lack of a better word) about the whole thing. I hate trying to figure out what is going to fit where, and I always feel like I could probably fit more stuff in there -- if I just knew what I was doing. I have my skills, but I think organizing closets and cabinets is just not among them. >.O

But (!!)

With that said, I've managed to get a LOT of stuff into this closet! I reorganized a bunch of stuff that was all jumbled together in piles into some nice, heavy-duty banker's boxes that hubby brought home from his office. So that looks much neater, in general. Plus, I can label the box so that I know what is in there. I think that was a good change. I was finally able to move my sketch books off the open shelves here in the office and into the closet -- which will be a great thing, particularly when this room turns from "office" into "guest bedroom". I was able to do the same thing with my anime DVD collection. And I was finally able to pull most of my comic books/manga from my kiddo's closet and store them in the office closet, too. Also a good thing, since I can now see a possibility that the kiddo will be able to use her own closet in the near future. I believe I fit everything back into this closet, as well as fitting a few new things in. And I still have open shelf space in here. I'm just not sure exactly what to put there -- yet. I have two very LONG comic book boxes full of manga that are too tall to fit on the shelves. I might get hubby to bring home some more banker's boxes so that I can store those in there and get them in here, too. That way, they would be with the rest of the comics and out of the kiddo's closet.

Overall, I think I made progress, which is a good thing. And a good feeling. But I am so POOPED! This stuff was freaking HEAVY. *whines*

Comments

[animerei.livejournal.com]

When you recover from all your heavy lifting, I demand photos of these semi-sentient, cyborg closets! My idea of closet organization is buying a $5 shoe organizer. *lol*

[tex-chan.livejournal.com]

Ha! For the longest time, that was my idea of closet organization, too. This is the first time I've invested in any sort of "custom" closet thing. (And, of course, I kind of went the middle-of-the-road route on it, too. I mean, what we installed wasn't totally cheap. But if I wanted to really spend up the wazoo, I probably would have gone to California Closets or some place like that. But, really, we are not planning on staying in this house forever, so we just needed something that could be a good selling point but wouldn't totally break the bank. >.O)

Anyhoo ... pics will be forthcoming! As soon as I can get everything organized and put away again. It's amazing how much time it takes to put stuff back into a closet. I guess it is a lot faster the way we had it before: everything just tossed inside in a huge, jumbled mess. -.-"