Motivation for organization

So my BFF, her daughter and her dad are coming to stay with us for a night on their way moving back to TX. (Her hubby's coming back from deployment sooner than expected!) Our only little problem was that the "guest bedroom" at our house had this living in it.

Yup. All those boxes that are packed last and get labeled "stuff". We called it the corner of shame...it was next to the closet of shame. That's tomorrows project. Anyway, I spent a couple of hours sorting through all this stuff and reaffirming my belief that if you know where everything is, you save money by not buying more.

Now the linen closet looks like this

And the guest bedroom like this

And I am appreciating what we have and parting with EVERYTHING that we really don't need/love. Everyone should do this.

Take a critical survey of what you have. If it's been in a closet or a box for a year, you obviously don't miss it. That being said, if you come across something that you realize you now can use, you just saved yourself from buying another.

If you think about it, there is a lot of waste that comes with overconsumerism (I made that word up) being a conscience consumer is green in every sense. So look at what you have and work with it!