Organizing and de-cluttering

It's a New Year so it's time to get organized.  I have a stay-cation coming up soon and my plan is to tackle each room of the house to do some cleaning and organizing.  There's no need for clutter.  It makes me stressed.  I want everything to have a place and if it doesn't then it needs to go.

I cleaned the house today and decided why wait until vacation to start a room.  I figured, I would try go ahead and tackle one of the spare bedrooms.

Here's a picture of the closet.  It's a disaster!  Stuff was piled so high that the door wouldn't even shut anymore.  Not good...not good at all.

The bed had a bunch of stuff piled up on it.  Some of that stuff used to sit in the closet.  Normally, this stuff was nice and neat in my other spare room.  But my brother is staying with us right now in that room so everything was kind of thrown in this room.

I started cleaning and tossing things and now here's the closet.  Why do I have so much scrapbook paper??

Everything is cleaned off the bed and then I neatly made it.

I have a big cedar chest (I started cleaning yesterday).  I made sure there was nothing left in it that I wanted to get rid of and I put a few things from the closet in there.

Here's a trash bag full of trash and then some other things for yard sale pile.

I brought out my old toys from when I was a kid.  My husband walked in and saw me sitting on the floor looking at my legos.  :)  He just laughed at me.  haha

Here's my Littlest Pet shop.  This is the original....much better than what is in stores now. 

I love my little fish.....the one little greenish guy, I remember I named him "MookeyMoo"........not sure why. I just liked the name. LOL

My turtles....I loved these guys.

How cute are they?  LOL  The blue/green one was named "Speedy".

Here's the ducks.  My favorite was the yellow one in the middle.

Cats and kittens.

Birds....

I have lots of awesome memories with my little sister and brother playing with these toys.  :)  I decided to part with them today.  I gave them all to the neighbors across the street.  I figured instead of them sitting in a closet just collecting dust, I wanted them to be played with.  The kids loved the toys and their mom texted me a picture of them playing with them and said I was welcome to come over and play with them anytime.  LOL  :)

Thanks for the great memories Legos and Littlest Pet Shop.  :)