Cleaning the matchbox

That's right! So, I have slowly been tackling my current room by packing up and preparing to move home. While the 9' x 20' room I live in is large when empty, it shrinks quite quickly when you add three beds, three, dressers, three desks with chairs and three out-of-state college girls with all of their stuff! The remaining space in the center of the room (which is still rarely empty of shoes, clothes, purses, etc.) is about 12' x 5'. Divide this by three and that leaves about 3 ' x 1.6' for each of us. Enough room to stand. Sometimes.
Nonetheless, we have been able to fit quite an extraordinary amount into this space–probably too much!
Now, do not get too excited, my cleaning consisted of throwing half my clothes into a duffel, and leaving the other half on hangers and throwing them in my trunk (Mom, you did not just see that). My desk drawers got dumped into other containers for transport home, and my shoes are jumbled all together in an old cardboard box. Pretty sufficient if you ask me! That was the easy part... it will be the UNpacking that gives me trouble...
Ran across the old pictures from when we first moved it. We were so happy and excited to live together...so naive...

 

This is my room the day after we moved in, it has never been this clean again...

 

And this is the room today... (again, Mom you don't see this!)

What can we say? Life happened. And here, again, is another reason I am making an intentional effort to simply live simply!