I am an avid crafter and homeschooling Mom so you can imagine what we have in the craft room. It is a combo craft room, office, homeschool storage area. It’s the smallest bedroom in our house, which is still just a standard bedroom so it’s a decent size.

The room is always a mess. It is organized but not in a way that works well for the space, so it ends up messy. I joined a month long organizing challenge and took the pictures the other day. Today I started taking things out of the room that don’t belong here. When we painted we moved all the books into the room and a few weeks later, they were still in here. They were the first thing I put away. That cleared up a large portion of the floor!

I’m going to work around the room and continue to take things out that don’t belong. I’ve done a fairly good job of that already so I don’t think there is much that needs to be out. The next step is going to be rearranging the furniture so it works better in the room.

I didn’t take too long to put the books back – I didn’t separate them like I usually do – but I noticed two different books that I have doubles of. Just one way to save money – keeping things together helps me realize I have them and thus don’t have to buy another. I have a lot of homeschooling resources but I know I don’t have doubles of any of them.

Oh and I did find a bookstore that takes trade ins, I think it is for trade in and not cash, but that works for me!

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