How to maximise your space.

I just tidied my room yesterday. At 1 A.M. because I couldn't sleep. It's always surprising how much junk gets piled up over time, and before you know it, you can't see the surface of the table anymore. I know.

Moved some lame things out of my room, too. There were two pieces of packaging, I think it came with the monitor my dad bought about two months ago. A side table which is full of, not surprisingly, more junk. And all my old lecture notes. I've graduated, why should I care?

Hence, I've developed a set of rules for the average joe to follow, should you need help deciding what to do. The reason I said "average joe" is because, like me, they don't have much things of importance that are left lying around. It's either kept in drawers, cabinets or the top shelf. What's left is bill, birthday cards from various organisations(which I'm sure they send the same thing to everybody else on their birthday), old textbooks, and unused tissue paper and memo pads. And old batteries, pieces of movie tickets, pen caps, broken pencils and a whole lot of dust.

The list never ends. But, make sure you know why you're clearing whatever you're clearing. It can be a chair, table or even a part of a shelf(although nobody I know chucks stuff into a shelf, but who knows).

Rule #1: Only bother clearing it if you're gonna use it at least once a day, otherwise, move the whole damn thing out of your room. Stuff like a stool, a box lying around. It's your room, only you decide what goes in it.

Rule #2: Reviewing each stuff takes too much time, infact, everything looks like it still has value it probably worthless and already replaced. Get a big trash bag, and dump everything in.

Rule #3: If you do find items that are too important lying around, you shouldn't even be trying to tidy your room because it'll get back to the way it was in less than a month.

Rule #4: If you're still unsure and paranoid, you can always leave the damn bag in your sister's room. Tell her it's good fengshui(for girls) to leave big black trash bags in the room. Either that or try to hide it in a corner outside where nobody'll notice.

Rule #5: If you still need help deciding what to throw away, I have the perfect solution. It requires a whole bottle of whisky and you chug it down. Then, in the same tone sailors would say "Laaaand Ho!", say "Throw it awaaaaay!!!". Everything else comes naturally.

Just follow the perfect 5 golden rules and your room will not only look tidier, but more spacious as well. It'd be cool to invite your friends over and play twister in the room, wouldn't it?

2:52 AM - 4/11/2006 - post comment

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now i feel oh-so-inspired to clean my room thanks to you...and I tell you i have one whole chunk of junk there...lol

corporatefreak - 11:22 AM - 4/11/2006