Project baby organising (2) - making space

So project baby organising continues.

I had 3 shelves of files that I had to declutter to make way for the guest linen.

The way I see it is that if I haven't even looked at these files once in the last 18 - 24 months, I probably don't need it.

That was mostly true because some things were certificates from courses I'd attended, income tax records, etc.

When I got started, I must tell you I thought I wouldn't be up for it, because I'd forgotten that things always look worse just before they get better.

This is in the midst of the sort.

This was all the paper I decluttered from the files

and these are the lovely empty files and folders afterwards.

End result

• 2 1/2 empty shelves - yayy!
  
• 1/2 shelf of computer software and back-up discs all together in one space, not spread out in 3 different areas of the study
  
• Empty files that will go to a needy school in Johannesburg

No pics of final shelves because my husband's stuff is there and we have a rule - no blogging about his mess :)

Woohooo - it's time to tackle the paper!

This month we'll be decluttering home offices and today we're starting with one of the absolute major organising challenges ever - PAPER.

In fact, a couple of years ago, I asked the readers of this blog what their biggest organising challenges were. The overwhelming response was paper and all things office - email, computer, desk, etc.

And so I wrote 7 easy steps to organise your office which, almost literally, flew off the virtual shelves.

I know it's still the same out there because I get all your emails :)

If you don't yet have the 7 easy steps to organise your office MP3 and ebook system, then read through a couple of the posts below to get some ideas.



Here are the posts...

1. Paper, paper and still more paper
2. Dealing with mail clutter
3. Paper decluttering
4. How I deal with all the paper

(if you don't want to post on the theme, go right ahead and post on whatever you felt like decluttering :)

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Here is my contribution for this week
Before:


Categorising and sorting into the different files



After - aah, the bliss


Now tell me, did you declutter anything today?

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Now for this week's challenge

Please link to the post on your blog where you show off your pictures and talk about what you decluttered. If you don't have a blog, tell me in the comments about ANYTHING you decluttered this week.

It can be anything - physical, electronic, mental clutter or even the need to be a certain way. Like perfectionism! :)

What did you declutter this week?