The sun is shining here in Michigan. It's Spring, they say. It's only 30-some degrees but we'll take what we can get. Any day without snow when you're nearing April is a good sign.
The term Spring Cleaning sounds so crisp, refreshing, revitalizing and cathartic. It's a chance for a new start by purging the stuff you no longer need or use and organizing the stuff you want to keep.
I decided to jump on the living room shelf that stores DVDs, Blu-Rays and CDs. It's been a wreck for months. I'm anal-retentive when it comes to organizing things. If I'm keeping them, they have to be alphabetized and able to be located.
I first took the movies that were all mixed up and sorted them into DVDs and Blu-Rays. I placed the small assortment of Blu-Rays in alphabetical order on the shelf. The 70+ DVDs are stacked in two piles on the counter below the shelf. We have a Blu-Ray player and an HD TV so the DVDs don't get used but they could and....what to do, what to do. Leave them there and let the hubby decide.
After that, I took the hundreds of CDs off the shelf and piled them on the floor. I opened every case to make sure the right one was there or that there was a CD at all in the case. Yes, someone that shall remain nameless tends to put CDs in whatever case is convenient even if that means it is basically unfindable unless you stumble across it by accident.
There were probably around 20 CDs in the wrong case, another 20 cases without CDs at all (though I know they exist somewhere), there are also burned copies of CDs, DVDs made at Vacation Bible Schools, Mother's Day gifts on DVD, computer software, backups... too much stuff; you get the drift.
Now I'm sitting here typing this as the piles of CDs and DVDs are just sitting over in the corner waiting to be told what to do. It looks a lot worse than it did before and now I'm just confused as to how to handle it without just sticking them on the shelf and shutting the doors on it again.
Spring cleaning? Not quite yet.
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