How I organize all the kids clothes

 If I'd been thinking clearly, I would have taken a picture of what my house looked like an hour ago. You see, Monday's are cleaning days. And every week, I completely gut 1 room in the house- I touch absolutely EVERYTHING in that room, windows inside & out, wash the curtains, move all the furniture & vacuum, and put it most of it back. Not all, which is the point. I throw some stuff away, make a pile to donate/yardsell or pack up for the next kid in line.
  Last week was Kaylors room, and I THREW away ALOT. Not losing any steam, instead of just doing all my normal cleaning today, dusting, vacuuming, bathrooms etc. I decided that E & F's room would be a piece of cake. Essentially it was, til I got Eowyn's dresser.
  It's been hot, it's been cold. I needed to keep both seasons of clothes out, but she's at an in between stage- I don't want to pull the 4 winter stuff yet.... I started pulling things out, setting aside what's too small for their cousin that's inbetween E & F. Then I went thru Finn's stuff, pulled out things that were the cousin's that needed to go back, things that were ours that I was done with, and things that I want-to-hold-onto-just-incase-we-have-another-baby.
  I had a massive box of clothes K has outgrown & a box of shoes that needed to go up.

 I'm thrifty- but let me tell you I HATE putting cardboard boxes in my attic. I want all the( size 7/8 winter stuff in one container. Not 2 or 3 or however many. I like totes. (I used to not label them. I had K. At the end of a season, it all went in, and then it all went up.) Then I had E, and realized I didn't know what the crap was going on in any of the totes in my attic. So I came up with this code, E1, E2 etc. for which tote we would need for E. But then I emptied a tote and put something back in it. So I went to pieces of paper taped on.
 
 So I needed some totes, and Aaron was going to the home improvement store on his way home for rat traps & small planters for transplanting seedlings.  He brought me home 5 new totes. (2 are giant ones that I wouldn't be able to get up the pull-down-stairs into the attic by myself it it were full- plus the lids didn't fit- so they're going back.)
 So I had a bunch of boxes spread allover my living room, various sizes thrown about. Still not done.
 I want to get all the shoes into 1 or 2 totes as well. I can tell you what size clothes all 3 of my kids wear, but please don't ask me what size shoes they were. So it just makes sense to keep all the shoes together.
  But I did take the chance to pull a whole box of clothes to pass on. And a giant box of stuffed animals (mostly mine. I saved them for my kids to play with. They want to play with everything. I kept my favorites. The rest is going into the yardsale.)
   I think there are 12 or 14 totes, plus 2 boxes of shoes. 3 totes (1 is shoes) is stuff for K to grow into.  I didn't count the 1 tote full baby clothes- newborn-12 mos. I made it all fit in one. I eliminated pieces til it fit.
  I still have several totes to go thru and pull stuff out of. Maybe I can condense them enough to empty a whole tote and get those 2 boxes of shoes into one.
   I can't remember which room is next, but when I get to the toy room, my goal is to get all the toys (with the exception of Kaylor's since she has her own room) into the same room, no more packed up. (Except for the stuffed animals that will get rotated (and some eliminated), depending on what the girls are into (it was dogs, but now it's unicorns & mermaids, so all the dogs are in the attic.)
 

Happy Earth Day... more than 9 mos. later

 In honor of one of my favorite holidays, I'm re-launching my blog. So much has been going on that has been down-right hilarious, or interesting or good learning experiences.
  So I here I go again. I was going to start a new blog, keep this one, (last time I started over blogging, I deleted the old one..) I like simple. I don't need multiple blogs. So I'll keep adding to the pile on this one.
  So follow my blog. Tell your friends about my blog. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be inspired (at least I hope that's what happens)!
   Once I get 15 followers- I will do a giveaway of some sort. Giveaways seem to be hot in the blogging community. Can't say I've ever won one, but then again I don't enter alot of them. You will find out why if you follow my blog, because as some point I will write all about why I don't like 'stuff'.

  But what does my favorite holiday (yes today's a holiday, for me anyway) Earth Day have to do with re-launching my blog? I'll also provide you with greener living tips, which is my ultimate goal- share real practical advice for living lighter, healthier and cheaper, all at the same time.