Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Trying to Tackle A Four Year Old's Toys

I have been working on decluttering around the house now that we have finished our homeschool year. It was something that I had really been wanting to do, and it seemed like a good time to work on it.

I was surprised when I whipped through several areas that I thought would take a long time. But, I was not surprised when it took me several days (working off and on) to finish going through Molly's toys (which we keep in the room that we use for school as well).

I forgot to take before pictures, so really, these are "during" pictures (but, I'm afraid to say that it does not look a lot different than the before pictures, other than that in the before pictures, the white shelves were full):


And, thankfully, here are the after pictures:







Actually, I have one more thing to finish off before I will officially consider this project done. Eric and I worked to take pictures of a sample of what is in each basket on her shelves and then I'll make a laminated tag with the picture on one side (I already got each picture printed as a 3"x4") and the words on the opposite side.
Here are two samples of the pictures that will be on her labels (for Care Bears and for Calico Critters):


9 comments:

Krisi and Adam said...

Isn't it nice to have that done. I still need to do the playroom.

Check out my tackle:
http://adamandkrisi.blogspot.com/2009/06/tackle-it-tuesday.html

~Rhen @yestheyareallmine said...

Great job!! That looks fantastic.

Kristi said...

What a fabulous tackle. I like the label ideas too! Blessings to you.

Kim said...

Great job tackling the toys....one of my biggest nemesis!

April said...

Looks Great! This is what I will be doing next week--kids rooms and our school room. We were on vacation last week and I've got one at camp this week, so I'm working on getting up the motivation!

Susie said...

Awesome tackle!

Jenny said...

That looks great! I see a lot of familiar toys in there. My daughter has some of the same things.

I really like the shelf and basket idea.

Muthering Heights said...

The toys look so nice and neat in your baskets!

Sherry said...

Wow! It looks great! Way to go!