There's a floor in this closet!!

I've been on a sorta mission after reading about Spring Cleaning for Normal People. The premise of this is taking time (and making time) in short bits and manageble pieces to go through and simplify your house, springtime or not. The first phase was to go through each room and throw away trash and give away stuff that you see right away that doesn't meet the criteria to keep: "Is it useful?" "Is is beautiful to me/or my family?" I couldn't believe how much trash was around. Just pieces of stuff here and there left on a counter or on a floor, near the trash, but not quite in it.
Anyway, two days ago, I moved on. This is what the closet in Jeffrey and Josiah's room looked like. REALLY! I didn't mess it up first! It's kinda like on "Clean Sweep" on TLC when you think "That room didn't really look like that did it? Surely they've dumped stuff out of drawers to make it look worse than it really way was." Well, I guess rooms CAN get that messy. Just look what two seeminly calm and sweet boys can be do in this tiny space and in just a matter of days! I guess they were trying to prove the whole "things tend to move from order to chaos" law. Which one is that??? (If you know, post a comment and we'll all be impressed!)

Well, two hours, three HUGE black trashbags of stuff to Goodwill, and a huge black trashbag crammed full of trash later...

Yippee, the floor!! And I moved some toys around so now the window seat houses linens for people when they come to visit. I couldn't believe the stuff I found in that window seat/toy graveyard. Some of my resistance bands, my hairclip (YEAH-my favorite that's been missing for a long time), tweezers, 4 (!) paddles/spankspoons (conveniently "misplaced" I'm sure), almost an entire load of laundry of dirty shirts, pants, socks and underwear. It was crazy! And while I had the trashbag out, I headed to my nightstand and chunked a bunch of stuff AND FOUND MY ADDRESS BOOK!!!!!!! This has been lost since we moved and I gave it up as gone forever! I was thrilled! And now I'm pumped. My ruthless attitude toward the accumulation and storage of STUFF isn't diminished, it's fueled! Watch out! By the end of it all, we may be all have only 4 outfits each to wear, a much smaller book collection, an even smaller toy collection, almost no DVDs, no VHSes, very little in the realm of decor, a lot less to move come May.... and a mom with a big smile on her face!!! (And maybe a bald dog! :-) )