Haha! YES!

I tuned in over at Simple Mom for this week's Hot Spot for Project Simplify, and I'm excited to announce... I don't need to do it!  Not because I have no children (that's obviously false, with one and one on the way), but because I've already done it.  Yes, sirree-bob.  The hot spot is actually children's toys and clothes. I actually went through all of Eliza's clothes the end of last week and pulled everything that didn't fit and emptied a few of her drawers to make room some of Simon's clothes.  Then over the weekend I sat down and sorted them into clothing types (jammies, shirts/onesies, pants, dresses, etc.) and put them in bins.  Two of which I'm still waiting for my strong, muscular husband to take downstairs.  Why did I do this on top of that massive paper clutter assignment?  Well, it was something I could do while she was up.  Yes, she got into it just as much as she would have the paper, and yes, I did have to go roaming around the apartment picking up littered out-grown clothes.  But with the clothes, it was a simple matter of refolding and putting back in the bin.  It would have been more complicated and a great deal more frustrating with the paper.

As for the toys, I went through those about a month ago and pulled all the toys Simon will likely play with and set them aside in a few boxes.  We don't have a large number of toys, anyway, because of our lack for space, so we didn't actually get rid of anything.  Just thinned out and put away for the time being.  We have a small basket of toys in the living room and a few stacked under the sidetable by the bookshelves.  The rest are either stuffed animals on a bookshelf in her room or fit into a tub next to it.  There's not much for us to do there.  I may yet go through the books, but that is mostly to put away some of the easily torn ones that she's not quite ready for yet.

So, this makes me smile.  I feel on top of it.  And it also means I have more time to actually clean and then work on other projects I have.  Oh, and all the social activities I've scheduled for Spring Break.  Yessirre-bob.  It's gonna be a good week.