Clear the Clutter

I find that as I set out on the task of completing my goals for 2012 that I am getting more than I bargained for.  I feel as if I am getting a brand new house!  Along with cleaning and reorganizing we are rearranging and doing some updates to the house. 

Over the past couple of weeks I have spent the majority of my time off cleaning out clutter in my house.  My kitchen was overflowing with STUFF, my basement held a collection of my children's things we have accumulated over the past 4 years and closets are bursting at the seams.  It is so funny how when we bought this house almost 6 years ago it seemed so big and we barely had anything to fill it with. 

Brian and I had a day off together last week and my sister in law came over to help us clear out a big portion of the stuff in the basement.  We moved our living room from upstairs to downstairs in our newly cleaned out basement and are preparing to have laminate floors installed in our upstairs living room next week!  I am super excited.  This is a long time coming.  Brian and I have been looking and looking at flooring since September.  We finally figured out what we wanted and where we were going to purchase it from and it is finally going to happen!  We are going to use that area as an office/sitting room. 

I cleaned out my kitchen as well.  I got rid of some of the things I no longer or never use and put the rest of it stuff where it really belonged and not in my kitchen!  My counter tops are finally cleared and it feels wonderful.

I have several rooms left in the house to purge and I will get there.  It will take time to go through and organize and purge all the areas of our house.  We just have way too much stuff.  I am hoping to simplify our lives a little bit!