My Office Mess Challenge
After my crazy, busy Fall craft season, I took a look at my office/studio and shuddered. How did I let it get this bad? Of course I say that every year after my craft season is over and I vow not to let it get like that again, but invariably….it does.
I know I need to clean and organize it. I spend more of my waking hours in here than I do in any other room. And let's face it, this room is just not conducive to work. I don't know if you are like me but I just don't function well in so much clutter. It just makes me feel nervous. I feel so much more peaceful when my space is organized.
I am happy to report that the rest of my house is pretty organized. It's just THIS ROOM that haunts me. I had decided that I was going to get this room in order this month. But when I walk in here, I'm just completely overwhelmed by the mess. I almost feel like one of those people on that show "The Hoarders". Except I don't hoard.
I am a member of Lynn Terry's Self Starter's Weekly Tip's Forum. Our January challenge in the Elite forum is to take a before and after picture of our work spaces and to clean and organize them. How timely! So I am opening myself up to the embarrassment and humiliation of letting them…and you see my messy office/studio.
This is the wall where I hang my finished ornaments. It look ok, but the drawers below it are a wreck!
Here is my desk, and portable desk with both of my computers. Yikes!
And the worst of it….my craft table (you can't even see the table anymore!)
Ok, there you have it. Please be kind!
Tags: organizing
January 6th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Cathy, I feel your pain! You do appear to have a lot of work to do, but look on the bright side ~ it can be done, little by little. Remember, you can eat an elephant, one bite at a time. As a member of Lynn's Elite Membership, I've accept the challenge for January also, and mine is to get a lot more organized – office and computer as far as my different businesses. Will watch for your progress. You can do it
January 6th, 2010 at 9:42 am
I think by nature craft tables just get messy no matter often you clean them off, so we can forgive you there
Your desk isn't looking too bad! I think I have you beat on piles of stuff … and half the stuff isn't even mine. My desk is like the hot spot for everyone to pile all their junk.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Thanks Yvonne. I keep going back and forth on whether I should just do a section at a time or take everything out of the room (which would require the help of my teen son) and starting over since I really need to purge some stuff and furniture out of here. I'll probably have to do the little at a time since that's all I have time for.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:57 am
That's right Loretta, you are a fellow crafter so you know how fast it can get cluttered. And what is it that everybody's stuff ends up in our space? Looking around, I see my son's Wii box, his sports stuff, the vacuum, etc. My room seems to be a catchall for everyone else.