Labor(ious) Weekend

The Motivation Bug^(TM) hit me this long weekend which we all know comes around about as often as the Olympics. And in the last three days I have legitimately touched every single thing I own, which is no small feat if you know the stuff sprawl that is my life. For funsies sake, here's a bulleted list!

Before we get started however, a fun legend to help you understand the massive undertaking that constitutes the contents of my closet.

1. Closet #1 - Pants, folded shirts, under-wares, socks, sweaters, sweatshirts, bathingsuits
2. Closet #2 - Hanging shirts, dresses, shoes
3. Hanging Armoire - Blazers, skirts
4. Armoire cupboards - Exercise clothes, pajamas
   

And now! On to the bulleted list!

• Weed through Closet #1 and make pile of clothes for consignment.
• Weed through Closet #2 and add to pile of clothes for consignment.
• Throw away old t-shirts, refold exercise clothes, add to pile of clothes.
  
• Sift through the baskets of health/beauty, life stuff. Throw away + organize.
• Rummage through the (office-based) bins in my room I pulled out of the storage unit last month. Throw away + organize.
  
• Clean through the contents in my desk. Throw away + organize.
  
• Gather all costumes (whyyyyyyyy do I have so many?) into a single place and put into storage unit. Also in the costume bin, swimsuits and hats. (Unrelated: If our building were burning down, do you think I'd grab this bin?)
  
• Organize and condense bins/boxes in the storage unit.
• Return items to TJ Maxx, Target, Marshall's, Sports Authority. (Newsflash: sometimes I have a problem buying things and sitting on them for awhile to see if I'll actually use/wear. I think this makes me a terrible person.)
• Two loads laundry.
• Tackle the front hall closet that hasn't been touched since we moved in several years ago. FOUND: all my handbags, cardmaking supplies, tennis racket. Review the contents of my 72-hour kit and decide it's probably still mostly good.
  
• Vacuum bedroom.

And then Saturday ended. I think I rested on Sunday but truth be told I can't even really remember. And now Monday's list...

• Tackle under the sink in my bathroom. Holy makeup and hair ties. Note to self: never buy hair ties again. In fact, I think I should put some into my 72-hour kit because heaven knows hair ties will be CURRENCY in the Apocalypse because there's nothing worse than hair in your face when you don't want it to be.
• Clean bathroom.
• Empty the contents of our front room closet which has been a dumping ground for excess paper goods, kitchen gadgets, home decorations, water bottles and coats for the last three years. Organize + throw away. Decide it's time to put out our Halloween decorations. Summer, be gone!
  
• Organize pots & pans cupboard which is a nightmare in 95% of American households, probably yours included.
  
• Wipe down stuff on top of fridge, and you guessed it -- organize and throw away.
  
• Rinse, repeat with food cupboards.
• Do dishes in the sink, start dishwasher.
• Made bean dip, which at first type wrote as 'beandip'. Why isn't this the acceptable spelling? Oh wait, probably because our brains are programmed to read -and- in the middle of any word and process it incorrectly. Are there words with -and- in the middle (meaning multiple letters on both sides) that look correct? Be and ip. Yes! I'll have some!

And well I think that's it. The only thing I promised myself I'd do this weekend was the self-evaluation for my yearly review. 5:55 on the Monday night of a long holiday weekend. Ask me if it's started. Oh right, definitely not. Weekend totally wasted!