Organized

Since it's officially springtime, and since it's finally getting warm out, I'm feeling the sudden urge to organize EVERYTHING.

It really drives me nuts that nothing around here is in neat little bins, etc. Which means I'm going to end up cleaning out my closet. Which means I'll end up donating a ton of stuff to Goodwill. Which means I'll feel as though I've wasted a ton of money.

I have this problem with multi-seasonal clothes. Like long-sleeved cotton tops that are too warm for wear in the daytime in summer, but nice for the evenings or more formal occasions. And now, when the weather hasn't decided what it wants to be, I have ALL my clothes out. When I lived with my parents, we used to take all the winter clothes and put them into storage at the end of winter, and vice versa with summer clothes. But since The Boy and I haven't gotten to tackling the basement, I don't have any extra storage down there. I'm thinking of getting a smaller set of drawers similiar to the one in my closet (plastic, sterilite drawers) for the shelves on top of my closet, and storing suff there. I really want a bigger closet! Ha.

As far as the basement goes, right now it's just a chaos of boxes and odds and ends and large garbage bags of aluminum cans (The Boy takes them in for recyling, but he's waiting until the price of aluminum rises). We both decided that a good system would be getting large rubbermaid tubs and organizing all of the things in boxes into the tubs. I like that idea because I'm deathly afraid of bugs, and in my opinion bugs are much less likely to get into an airtight plastic container than a cardboard box. (Side note: is it weird for me to put empty cardboard boxes in rubber containters? I save boxes for everything, like my Mac, and I don't want them ruined.)

Aside from my closet and my basement, I want to really give a go at organizing my desk, getting it packed up, and dismantled so that I can move my recliner from my grandmother's house to the apartment. that will provide seating, appease The Boy's lust for a recliner, and hold me over until I can afford a trip to IKEA.

The trouble with all of these organizational goals is thus: it's rainy. I never, ever want to do anything but sit around and read when it's rainy outside. And I have my last night of work tonight so that cuts my time down. Oh, and I'd have to get to Wal-Mart (I know, I know, evil) to get some storage solutions (on second though, for the large bins, Home Depot. sells those). And I don't have a new job lined up yet so my account is effectively 'frozen' to pay the bills until I know I'm at least going to be earning some income.

Everything's a mess and it's driving me nuts.