Trying to keep going

I have been trying to keep pace with my cleaning and organizing despite the events of the past week.  I keep thinking that if I keep going I will get it done and then I will feel better.  If I stop I will lose my enthusiasm and I am afraid I won't get done at all.

If we aren't friends on Facebook I will tell you that our house was broke into this past week.  A window was broken and we had some things taken from our home while we were out grocery shopping.  We were gone for less than 2 hours!  Among the things taken were both my cameras so my organizing pictures this week were taken with my phone.  I will keep up with the phone pictures until I am able to replace my camera.

So, I started with my bathroom on Friday afternoon.  We have a really small bathroom so it didn't take too long to get it done.  I had a lot of junk crammed in there though!  Other than the size the other think I hate about my bathroom is that we have no storage space.  There are no drawers and the counter top space is really small as well.  Here is my before and after shot (pardon the grainy camera phone shots!)

This is all the storage I have in there!  I think I did a pretty good job getting rid of stuff though.  I got an over the door shoe organizer and hung it on the closet door.  It's holding all of the things we use everyday like hair products, deodorant, perfume, etc...I will get a good shot of it and post it tomorrow.

Here is what my counter top looks like, hopefully we can keep it like this for longer than a few days!  I think it will help to have a place for everything though.

Here is a shot of all the makeup products that I had stuffed under that sink.  Seriously SO much junk!!  I got this pared down to just a small bag of the stuff I use almost daily and a basket of other eye shadows and lip stuff.

Here is all the stuff I am getting rid of and I threw a TON of it away.

It feels really good to be getting rid of so much stuff!    I know it's going to be a pain to get all this ready for a garage sale, but if we can make even a little money off it will be worth it.  The money we make will be applied to home projects, hopefully in the form of an entertainment center!!

I spent ALL DAY Saturday on my closet so I will post about that tomorrow when I get home from school.

Happy organizing!!