Nesting

So I heard all about "nesting" and how when one gets pregnant, anything and everything looks like it needs to be rearranged, cleaned, reorganized, whatever. Since I enjoy doing all of that anyway (yes I know I am twisted!) it's been fun to change things. Starting with our closet. I am not easily able to purge clothes, shoes, handbags, etc. But after looking at our closet and realizing that first of all, Jeff had no room, and secondly, what room he had was severely underutilized, I got inspired. I had him knock out the built in shelf on his side (it was nailed in but had been painted over so many times I figured it was easier for him to attack it with a hammer!) and I got started sorting the clothes. What fits, what do I really like, etc. Before I knew it, there were piles on the side of the tub and a box of shoes (I know - hard to believe!) and even some purses. But I couldn't stop there. I narrowed it down even further and went through my dresser and the cedar chest at the foot of our bed. When I started to get maternity clothes, I had to put some stuff in the chest to make room and not all of it needed to come back. I put some shelving in on the left side for Jeff's jeans and shoes (can you believe it - he only has 3 pair! Tennis shoes, work shoes, and flip flops. How do men do it??) and we put the dry cleaning basket up top. I had some canvas hanging shelves full of my t-shirts which I removed and added more shelving. I've reduced the amount of hanging space for my clothes which seemed more fair to Jeff, and with reducing what I'm putting back in, I've managed to get everything that needs to hang back in the closet. Now I do have to still go through the closet upstairs in my scrapbook room which is also full of clothes, but I am surprising myself at how fun it is to put things in the give away pile. But now before I go to bed and when I wake up, I am excited to go look at the closet and see how far we've come. Jeff's excited to finally have his own hanging rod and there is room for everything he has plus room to grow. We can see his suits now! Everything looks so much better and I'm excited to get home tonight and tackle the closet upstairs. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to condense everything I own into one closet! Wouldn't that be amazing? I'll take some pictures once I'm completely finished so you can see how proud I am. Unfortunately I didn't take any before pictures of our closet, and I may be too embarrassed to take before shots of the scraproom closet, but we'll see.
It seems that the scraproom closet has turned into the closet where all things go to die. It started out being very organized and full of extra scrap supplies, things I was organizing to actually scrap, etc. However, when people would come over, we started shoving things in there just to get the room clean and once you start down that path of ridiculousness, there's no turning back. So it will be nice to be able to access my scrap stuff again and, lets be honest, just walking in there again would be nice!