Organizing the wrong room first

I had a sort of epiphany last night; or maybe it was this morning as I lay in bed aching from shoveling so much snow yesterday. Anyway, I realized--after I sorted through the laundry room for the second time yesterday, making room for the sweepers in the place where the sweepers should go, and getting rid of the microwave cart that was fairly empty--that I really need to concentrate on the dining room first.

Why? Because the majority of stuff to sell is in the dining room. It's also the place where I've been stashing stuff--to sell, for the yard sale, or to keep that doesn't have a home quite yet. (The majority of my non-fiction books, for example.) It's the messiest room in my house. It's cluttered with STUFF to the nth degree, and I can hardly walk through it; much less use it for a music room.

So, since I won't be posting auctions for the next three weeks (I could post them this weekend, but I have things coming up family-wise that mean I'm not positive I could get everything to the PO in time, so I'm just going to take a three-week break) I think I'm going to concentrate on the dining room instead. There will still be piles, because I have no other place to put the stuff in question, but I'm going to touch everything, go through everything, write up and take photos of the auctions I will be posting, and get rid of the stuff I no longer need that can't be sold at a yard sale or on ebay. That means I won't be posting any more auctions until April.

I'm also going to go through my plants, sweep up the piles of dirt on the floor from where the shelf broke a few months ago (I would have had to move everything to get to it before, and I still will. But I'll move everything and get to everything in preparation for moving the plants outside when that time arrives) and get everything in piles so I can easily move it out when the yard sale weekend arrives, which is also April. So starting it now only makes sense.

I think that will really help get everything else organized; I still have the piles of stuff to sell/get rid of/whatever in my office from when I cleaned a few weeks ago, because I don't have room in the dining room to put anything at all.

If you don't hear from me for a week or so, though; someone call 911 and tell them that I've been buried in STUFF, okay? :)