ahhh it felt so good to do some solid organizing over new years weekend! i could not stop digging through our closets and tossing and rearranging and weeding through and all that wonderful, wonderful stuff. i’ve always had a massive craving for organization inside and out. closets, drawers, oh, i need order in all of it! i used to be so good at that sort of thing, too, but it’s not quite so easy when you have a full and busy family life. things get tossed and shoved and stacked and i’m always trying to amp up the system in that department!
sooo… when i first saw the now sold out [waaa!] sugar paper boxes at target… i was immediately in love, but made the mistake of initially talking myself out of them. ugh!! of course, then i kept seeing them in photos and just dreaming of those gorgeous gold edges. by the time i went back just before christmas to snag some for gift giving, there were very few left! naturally, i went home, wrapped the ones i’d purchased, and then ordered several more to use in organizing our home because, gosh, they’re so pretty!! and who doesn’t need more things to hold more things? haha. i specifically got some to use in mine and maddalena’s closets. but now i’m totally regretting not getting some for the boys! i even searched another target high and low, but nope. they aaaaall clearanced! huge bummer. but the ones we have!!! oooh, i love them a lot.
anyway, i’m not typically one for new years resolutions, because i don’t like to set myself up for failure on purpose… but i’ve come to the conclusion that in 2017, i’m looking to make things pretty around here from the inside out. and i mean that as a metaphor for like… everything. we have a very blessed and wonderful life, but just like anyone else, we have a lot of crap that gets in the way. stored up junk that sits and adds up, ultimately preventing peak functionality in both tangible and emotional ways. so! it’s time to sort through our stuff… keep the stuff worth saving… and the rest: let it go. just let. it. go. [aaaand cue elsa!]
but ps. have you seen the actual insides of these boxes??? gold dots!!! pretty all the way through. oh, i want to gold dot the heck out of life. 🙂
aaand final sidenote: madd and i both got our furry sweatshirts from the little girls section in target, haha! i seriously couldn’t resist them! man, has that place got my number these days or what!?
Oh please come organize all of my closets and stuff with those pretty boxes! I am with you… de-clutter literally and figuratively.
PS. I love that you wear clothes from the little girls section! Ha, me too when not hugely pregnant!!
i have been craving declutter mode for so long… when christmas ended i was officially in high gear haha!! and oh i was excited to squeeze into a girls sized top! they're usually too short for me but this one is awesome. 🙂
Ahhhh love and need those sweatshirts! What size did you get for yourself??
biggest i could find!! guessing an xl!
That's what I was thinking, trying to fin it here is WI! It may be a trek but it's so cute it'd be worth it! 🙂
Ahhh, it feels so good to kick the clutter to the curb in January, doesn't it?? Those boxes (and sweaters) are dreamy.
I'm seriously gasping over those sweaters, lol. I LOVE THEM
I like to pretend that what is happening inside all our closets isn't actually happening but I feel you. Sometimes I think in another life I should have been a minimalist. I need the stuff gone. But I'm also nostalgic. Guess I just need pretty boxes to store things in. ??
I LOVED these this season and regret not buying more!