messy tour: part 2

Remember my messy tour of my scrapbook space? Well, I have updated photos! It's been about 3 weeks since that post and my room had stayed pretty much the same.....until yesterday. I decided to finally start clearing out some of the mess. I set my sights on the three floating shelves and cleared them off.  As you recall, this is what it looked like.

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I cleared all the shelves as well as the top surface of the cube shelves. In the process, I think I broke the cable modem because we had shoddy internet after that and then it just quit working on us. The cable company sent someone to look at it and they quickly replaced the box. Of course I still have the ugly cables to contend with.

But before he came, I was slightly mortified at the condition of my room so I busied myself with at least cleaning the part of the room the cable guy would be walking through. He would still see the mess of the rest of the room, but at least he wouldn't trip over anything on his way to the cable modem. Which brings us to the next photo.

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You can see the beautiful hardwood floors and the rug! Some toys, my vacuum and endless boxes of stuff still there. Maybe if I got rid of all the boxes and just dumped all the stuff on the floor it would look like less stuff. Probably  not.

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This cube shelving unit did not change that much, but the floor in front of it sure did!

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The pile in this part of the room got taller! Half of the desk stayed the same and the other half....

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Nothing major, but I cleared off this side of my computer desk. I definitely need a place to hold pens/pencils and other often-used items.

The rest of the room looks the same so no updated photos there. Hope you enjoyed my big  tiny makeover-to-date! I will probably tackle the other side of my desk next. Small steps, people!

p.s. If you have any organizing tips to share, please leave me a comment! I'd love to hear your advice.