Ah, I feel cleansed!

When Aaron and I got home from our Christmas road trip we did a few in-home projects. Our first one was Friday night. 2 years ago Aaron made an entertainment center with the help of his dad. This thing is pretty massive and heavy, as I'm sure many of you remember from the big move. Well, above our TV there was a big empty space and Aaron and I decided that it needed some shelves to not waste the space. So his dad kindly made a shelf with doors for us and we brought them home after Christmas. We did it after supper thinking it would be a quick job. Huh...turns out it took us 3 1/2 hours! We drilled a few wrong holes and had trouble with some worped boards. We finally finished and it looks great. It's a perfect place for all our games with room to spare!

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Our next big project was organizing our office which is also the storage room. After we moved we unpacked everything we needed and left the rest in the boxes. We also kept some empty boxes to use again the next time we move, assuming we wouldn't stay in this apartment for too long. The tower was growing in every direction and almost reached the ceiling! Looking at the craziness for too long we decided to do something about it. We shopped around for the best deals on plastic storage tubs but eventually came back to good ol' Wal-mart. I love that place! Saturday we tackled "the tower". Thinking that wouldn't take us too long either, we worked through the afternoon and into the evening. We went through every box deciding whether to keep it or put it in the garage sale. We now have two full boxes+ for the garage sale! I don't even know why all that stuff got moved here. Sorry to those of you who carried boxes that contained those items! We broke down all the boxes and took them out to the garbage bin. The trash guys will love us! We then filled the new tubs with the remaining things and labeled the tubs. We also made record of what is in every tub. I love that my husband is just as organized as me! Although I wish we didn't have to have any boxes in this room, it looks so much better. I feel so cleansed.

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