So, I spent part of my weekend moving our 14 year old daughter downstairs into her new bedroom, which required moving my husband out of his office/man cave.  My basement now looks like it could be on an episode of Hoarders. When I walk down the stairs, I get the heebie-jeebies because of the mess, and I am one who can stand a bit of clutter. 

This got me to thinking....why do we, or in this case I, think I need to hang on to everything?  In a drawer I found do-dads that keep extension cords together that were purchased at Gibson's (they were still in the package with the price tag sticker).  The Gibson's in our town has been closed for many years, AND do I really need these?  And why did we buy them to begin with?  I'm perplexed, but I'm sure I will come across many other "valuable" items in my efforts to relocate the office and take back the basement.

Add to this the fact that we are redoing a bathroom and have done some work outside, our house seems to be in total chaos.  At this moment, there is not a single room in my house that is "clean and tidy".  We have too many projects going on, and it's time to start marking them off.  The bedroom move is the first check off, thankfully.

So, I close with this....if anyone has great ideas for organization, please feel free to share.  I'm all ears.  It's time to start purging!