I got very upset by the state of a corner in our bedroom yesterday, after getting a book down from a high shelf and finding everything up there was coated in clumps of dust, so spent a couple of hours today emptying, cleaning, and rearranging it.
It’s a high shelf (above head height) in an alcove by the bed, with a small chest of drawers in the alcove. I had a memory box and some craft books on the shelf, but I’d just been dumping stuff I wanted to keep (mainly paperwork from my mum’s house) on top of them, and it was awful.
So this morning I took everything down and gave it a thorough clean. I already had another storage box to use as a second memory box, so was able to store a lot of the loose things in there. I already had had two folders for my school stuff up there (one for primary and one for secondary), so was able to file some loose paperwork from the pile in there. The two boxes are now stacked up there with the craft books next to them, and it looks so much nicer. I also cleared and cleaned the top of the chest of drawers, which is my bedside cabinet.
I felt really ashamed of myself for letting it get so bad, but it’s looking much better now 😊 No actual decluttering except getting rid of one cardboard folder, and I know that I probably need to go through the first memory box and see what’s in there, but I’m much happier now it’s been cleaned and organised.