If you missed the 1st 4 days – you can find them here:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
I know that this is very belated in posting (not sure what happened . . . Life – I guess!). – but I wanted to show you the results of what my kids and I did to their rooms. (As you can see – their rooms REALLY needed cleaning as much as they did purging!)
Before:
The Boys room
The Girls Room:
Oh my goodness! I swear – the kids did not purposely mess up their room for the pics. I think this was one of those weeks where I was busy doing other things – and did not go up and verify that they cleaned their rooms. ?? I haven’t seen it this bad in a while. Anyways . . .
After:
We didn’t get as much done as I would have liked. I wanted to totally repaint the boys room (they are too old for the train and plane theme on their walls!) and we never did get through the girls’ closet or through their clothes drawers. Other than that – we did get through all the bookshelves, under beds, in the boys’ closet and drawers.
Boys Room
The boys got rid of a lot of toys and clothes that were too small. We didn’t get around to doing anything with the posters and things on the wall – but did get rid of one bookshelf and alot of books (and transferred some to the other bookshelf).
The Girls Room
We didn’t get to clean off and purge as much on top of the dresser as I wanted – and we didn’t even get into the closet. That will have to be for another day!
Leftovers
Here is most of what we took out of the kids rooms (mostly the boys)!
What purging project have you tackled lately? What do you need to purge?
I still have many areas in need of purging. My goal this summer was to do just that . . . but, like I said before . . . Life happened. Best laid plans don’t always pan out.
I still have a month left before school starts . . . but more than likely – I’ll be using that time to enjoy it with my kids.
I can purge when they are in school. 🙂
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I have 3 girls, ages 10, 4, and 3 and they share a room. And we just purged lots of stuff recently. We had too many clothes for our space. And books, and toys as well. Yes, room purging is great also while they are in school as well.
Wow – 3 in a room. How does the 10 year old like rooming with her sisters that are so much younger? Our 14 and 9 year old boys share a room – and when they were younger, it wasn’t as big a deal -but there is definitely a difference between a 14 year old and a 9 year old.
Lori- doesn’t it just feel amazing to clean and declutter and purge all of this outgrown unused stuff? I have made this the year of going through every single drawer, closet, cubby, and bin in my house and decluttering it.
We just went through the kids rooms this week in preparation for back to school- and boy does it feel good to have the space cleaned out!
Yes it does! We had made the same goal – for the last several years! I manage to get through the kids rooms fine . . . but it’s my junk that I tend to procrastinate on. It’s more difficult when it’s your own. This is when I need my sister beside me telling me “Don’t put that item down unless you have a place for it or know where it’s going!” 🙂 She pushes me to keep going when I want to give up.
Speaking of which . . . I should clean out our toy closet today . . . or this weekend. I keep putting it off – but I am so tired of looking at the unused toys falling out of it everytime I open it. 🙂
Blessings!