Clutter Control and Organizing Solutions

A couple weeks back I posted a post on my other blog about how many cookbooks I owned. At first I was embarrassed because at that time I was looking at an area in our home that had cookbooks in storage that we wanted to keep but don’t use regularly.  The ones we use all the time are on a shelf in our kitchen. Okay, so that’s a lie - shelves. I knew I had a problem then, but….

Yesterday I decided to work on one small portion of our basement that is generally where we store our holiday decorations, etc. Thinking it would be seemingly simple to just organize that area by holiday, I set to work. Boy was I wrong.

Earlier in the summer we emptied out a storage unit that was bigger than most people’s garages, and so thankfully we don’t have that monthly expense anymore ($160!), but we did get a plethora of stuff to fill our basement with , that I think we just don’t need. We were going to have a fall garage sale, but now its just to cold to do it, so it has been rescheduled for spring. In the meantime, we need to be able to move in our basement, and currently we really can’t. Well we can, but you always have to be aware of what boxes are around you, what things could get knocked over, etc and one of our kids rooms is in the basement. Yeah, so it really needs to be done.

After working on only one small section of the basement yesterday (remember there are two more places I keep my cookbooks). I wound up with this mess.

Yes. They are ALL cookbooks.

Do they have a support group for Cookbookaholics?