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I am horrible.

If you walk into my room now, you will see clothes strewn over an unmade bed, handbags and newspapers piled up on my other bed (please don’t make me explain why I have two beds), more clothes spilling out of the closet onto the floor, and shoeboxes scattered all over the place. Who would believe I got voted Most Organized back in high school?

*Sigh*

It was my equivalent to Spring Cleaning Day. Except it’s not spring. And I doubt it’ll all be done in a day.

If you’re a packrat like I am, let me give you some advice:

• Throw out all those useless things you’ve collected over the years. You know you’ll never use them, even if you keep telling yourself there will be an occasion when it’ll come in handy. It won’t.

• Take snapshots of your shoes and stick them on the side of the shoebox. This way, your precious heels can be housed neatly and you won’t have a hard time finding the right shoes when you need them.

• If you have more clothes than you can handle, pick out the ones you know you’ll never wear again and give them away to charity. Or if you insist on keeping them all, find a plastic drawer to store your more “casual” clothes so they don’t pile up on the floor!

• Stuff your handbags with crumpled balls of paper to retain its shape. Keep your handbags in a plastic bag or in a breathable bag to protect it from dust. Again, snapshots come in handy when trying to locate the right bag.

• Put some silica gel (those little packets of transparent beads that comes with crunchy snacks with the words “DO NOT EAT” in bold) in your shoe closet and handbag storage area to dehumidify your closet and prevent fungus from thriving in there! Eek!

Try to maintain this system and keep your room from becoming more cluttered.

Now, I must excuse myself and go clean up the mess in my room!