Organize Now 12-week Challenge Week 3, Part 2

As I thought would happen, returning to work slowed my organizing roll down considerably. I was, however, able to get my bedroom closet mission nearly finished. I moved a set of shelving in to hold my bins of goodies (science table stuff, sentence strips, and such) which I had already sorted through at the beginning of the school year and divided up by month. Here's how that looks:

The odd box labeled "small toys" doesn't actually belong with this stuff, but I didn't have time to deal with it just now. That will be part of the Organize your Memorabilia mission that will come up in a few weeks.

My hubby had put up an additional closet rod a while back for me to use for storing my posters and bulletin board supplies. Storing them flat was a pain, so this seems like a much better option. And, like flipping through the clothes in your closet, I can slide the hangers to find what I need. The end result:

This left just enough room to get my small bookcase in here for all my books. This still needs some serious organizing, but at this point is at least broken up into 2 categories: teacher books (how-to type) and children's books (the type we actually read to the children). Ultimately I would like to sort the children's books by subject and put them in order by month like I have with other items. 

The closet ends up being quite full, but I can still get to everything easily so it should work out well. 

Moving all of my work stuff to this closet and the craft closet mission that I did have provided two bonuses for the over-all organizing of the house:

1. I ended up with an empty cabinet which has been moved upstairs to hold linens - which freed up an whole dresser and part of another. The empty one left the house today!
2. Removing craft items and work items from the "office" opened up space for that the become the hubby's "man cave". This means no more projects hanging out in the living room!!

Next week's mission is organizing our routines. I've been happy up to this point working from the first edition of Jennifer Ford Berry's Organize Now!, but this section does not exist in my edition. I am torn! There's plenty of information to be found on the Internet about setting up morning and evening routines, developing your menus, and organizing your shopping... But I would really like to find out what Jennifer has to say on the matter. We'll see...