Decluttering my....everything!

I love to read my friend Brooke's blog. Every month, she will do a post called "decluttering the Devers" and I have been inspired.  Well, between her posts and realllllly wanting to sell our house, I decided it was time to do some organizing around here.

Another friend of mine is going to be putting her house on the market come spring, and she has met with a Realtor who gave them tips on how to sell faster.  She shared some of these tips with me so I am trying to put them to use.  We have not hired a Realtor (yet!), but I am hoping to soon.  We have had quite a bit of traffic on our house, with it just listed in MLS, but we have yet to find the *right* buyer.  Maybe the next people that come through will be blown away by how organized everything is now and they will just have to have it.....maybe?

(be forewarned, I am EMBARRASSED at how awful the before pictures are.  I clean out the areas on a regular basis, but the last clean out was a while ago.  Now that I see in a picture how bad they look, it is no wonder we haven't sold our house! haha!)

Above the stove: spices and cooking "stuff"

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The Pantry

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The Laundry Room

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MORE BEFORE:

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Bottom of Eddie's Closet: there is no before, I just took an after :)

A lot of these pictures were really hard to take with my camera since I have a really tight angled lens on there now so I could zoom out any further to capture more of the space.  I could have switched the lens, but that would be been a HUGE distraction and I would have stopped my progress. 

Side note: the shoe rack in Eddie's closet looks uneven, and there is a great chance it is since I put the thing together myself, but it's actually just the angle of how I am standing to take the picture....I promise!