Room Purge

My mom and grandma have been helping me out with a large scale purge/organization/beautification project on my room lately. It isn't done yet, but already looks much better. I had a ton of clutter and mess.

My mom scared me a few weeks ago by making me watch an Oprah special on hoarders. At first I got up to leave and was angry, feeling like she was insinuating that I had hoarding tendencies, when my room wasn't even really that bad. But she made me stay and while I was watching I got kinda scared- what if I ended up like that?

I actually came home around 8 on a Saturday to my mom and grandma completely turning my room upside down. "You came home too early!" I was alright with it and tried to help out, it was kind of a relief, actually. But all of the hustle and bustle in my tiny room, my mom picking things up and saying "can I throw this out? What is it?" started to got to me and I got a huge headache and started to get really stressed out.

However, I was able to be realistic and let go of a lot of things that I had kept for several years and didn't need or want anymore. I guess part of the mentality that I had was "what if I'll want to wear this shirt again?" even if I hadn't worn it in 2-3 years, etc. Some of the items I had a sort of obligation to keep (party favors, bad gifts...), and in general I just felt overwhelmed and somewhat helpless to go through all of the things.

My room's looking great so far and I'm really grateful to my mom and grandma. I'm still working on going through things and either keeping or getting rid of them, and organizing what I've decided to keep. My next big project is my giant bookshelf that has tons of unused room. I'm thinking of taking some books to Book-Off and a local used book store to see if they'd want to take some of my unwanted books. Okay, messy-room-rant over.