Still Decluttering

Hard to believe that it has been over a month since my last decluttering post.  I haven't given up, life has just been busy.  The kids and I spend a wonderful week in Florida with the Bertsch/Pfister family and then a few days after we returned I headed to Missouri for the Empowered to Connect Conference (I will probably share more about each of these events in future blogs posts).  In between my two trips Amanda Frauhiger came over and helped me clean out my kitchen cupboards.  Through the process I figured out that I had too many bowls, way too much glad-ware, and three junk drawers.  Leaving my house (it is all sitting in boxes in the dinning room) are over 8 cookbooks, 20+ small plastic containers, around 10 serving bowels of various sizes, a large roaster, and a lot of other small items.  I ended the clean out effort with a trip to the store for plastic baskets to keep my smaller kitchen items more organized.  While I was at the conference my parents stayed with the kids and my dad took out Moriah's old closet system and put in new bars and shelves.  I spent an afternoon last week painting her closet while the kids played with friends (a big thanks to Jesse Steffen for keeping them).  

 Before

  

After

Before

 

After

 

On Saturday Courtney and Jodi Pfister organized a group of friends to help me clean out two of my most dreaded areas in my house-the garage and the basement storage room.  I feel so blessed that Ked Ringger, Jason and Anna Lantz, Jay Gerber, Byron Gerber, and Keith and Kay Gerber all gave up part of their Saturday to join Courtney and Jodi (hopefully I didn't miss anyone).  My windows are sparkling, the landscaping is ready for spring, and both the garage and basement look 100% better than when we started.  I also have a large stack of items that I am getting rid off (I didn't feel like counting this time).  Now for the before/after pictures:

 Garage Before

 

Garage After

 Basement Before

 Basement After