Office Cleaning Day: Before and After

August 31, 2013

Liz and I made a plan to work on cleaning up our office this weekend. Though it’s the start of a long weekend for us, we decided the office needed some cleaning attention. Or rather, as Liz put it, we needed to stop having the office be “a shame room.”

Though I briefly tried to weasel my way out of the agreed-upon cleaning day… I did finally get a good momentum going (helped out a bit, with my first cup of coffee in over two weeks).

// Note: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals.

// Note #2: Except the weasel.

Here’s a shot of the office, in the midst of our cleaning. I had a lot of junk piled up in front of the bookshelves, and it was all a pretty big mess. We ended up filling one large garbage bag full of papers, and one large garbage bag full of trash.

And the room, post-cleaning. Though it took the better part of the day, it’s definitely nice to have so much floor space again. The room feels much more open, and less frantic.