It's hard to believe, but I have
results to post about my project on the day that it's due! Woo Hoo!
2 weeks ago, you saw the
before pictures of my filing cabinet project. Not a fun project to work on and not one that would beautify my house in a decorative sense, but one that would beautify in a streamlined, organizational sense.
Now, had I shed my
procrastinator ways, I would have realized sooner than *ahem*
yesterday that this was such a huge project that it should be multi-phased. I have decided there are 3 phases. And after more than
8 hours (yeah, seriously) of work, I did complete Phase 1!!
Phase 1: Empty and sort all boxes/bags of paperwork in house and garage and get them into file cabinet in hanging folders.
DONE!Phase 2: Further sort and organize inside file cabinet and label all hanging files.
Due: 5/28Phase 3: Shred all old paperwork and set up organized system in house for paperwork that can be easily transferred into file cabinet on regular basis.
Due: 6/11Look at me, acting all organized - LOL. I have to do that to keep myself accountable. I think this project will actually get finished. What a relief!!
OK, you want the pics as proof - I know.
Here are the boxes and baskets I emptied out (plus 2 or 3 sacks). Yes, the amount of *stuff* was rather disturbing. :)

I came up with this much garbage!

All this stuff needs to be shredded. We have a shredder, but I haven't decided if I want to risk burning ours up or take it all to a local company that shreds it in a couple minutes for $10 per box. It would take me a loooong time to shred all that doing it 4-5 pieces at a time.

And there's that beautiful file cabinet!! Not gonna show you the inside, but there are lots of hanging files and a few things stacked up on the sides and in the bottom. That will all be taken care of during Phase 2!

I feel SO much better having that done and actually look forward to finishing it. It's nice to have it all in one place and I did clear some space in the garage and quite a bit of space in a spare room closet, which is great.
Yay for procrastinators getting things done (even if it all happens at the last minute, as with me!)!! Thanks Melissa for
forcing me (she even cracked a whip at me on
twitter, though she did offer chocolate at the same time) to work on this project!!
How did your project go? If you didn't participate, are you motivated to start a project now? Go check out all the results (or excuses) at the
Project Procrastinators Party!
I've linked this up to
Your Life, Your Blog over at Real Life. Link up your favorite post from the previous week!
Don't forget, tomorrow is
Chocolate Friday and you need to link up some chocolate posts to reward me for all my hard work - LOL! :)
And
Cake Week starts Monday! I think we all could use some cake as a reward! Get ready for some great recipes and get your own cake posts ready to link up here next Wednesday!

Have a fabulous day!