Nearly two years (2020-2021) of my husband working at home, and my mother bringing all her photos to my house (2019), and the stacked boxes from my husband’s old office clean out (2017) cumulated in a very big mess.
If you look at that picture and wonder how the counter can handle the weight, it could not. One of the support brackets broke in half.
A handyman installed a temporary support post.
I ordered a four drawer cabinet for storage and to support the counter. I ordered the cabinets (Lowe’s) at the end of January, they arrived mid April.
Those cabinets are my limit now. 7 years of tax binders/my genealogy binders not included, all the papers/files in the house must now fit in these four drawers.
The steps in this process included:
- shipping about 36 packages of photos to other people
- getting rid of 2 old file cabinets on wheels
- installing a 4 drawer storage unit for counter support
- shredding an enormous volume of old papers
- limiting papers to what fits in the 4 new file drawers
- repairing the broken support
- cleaning out every cupboard and cubby
- removing all the extraneous stuff from the floor
- removing as much as possible from the counter
- rearranging the printer/PC work stations
