1st Battle: The Office

We did it!! :) It only took ALL weekend, and kind of threw our home into a state of unrest...but it was so needed. I cannot believe the amount of stuff that was crammed into this teeny room. The goal was to make it less "Scott's Lair" and more "Jamie and Scott's Office". Especially with me entering school in less than a month. It feels like someone just handed me an extra room to our house...

Here's a pic from early on Saturday morning:

And here's a few minutes ago... just for effect.


Some of my favorite things we found in the office:
1. Credit card statements from Feb 04
2. Savings account statements from Farmers First Bank in Lititz, PA... good times.
3. Lots and lots of checks from Scott's 1st Raleigh apartment. Yes, this means they've been moved TWICE. :)
4. All the cords that any computer company made...ever. They're in a drawer, with the 5 mice we have "just in case". We also had a punch card, you know, from like old 1970's computers? No clue. But we have one.
5. Also, all the computers and various parts of computers from all of our friends and family.

We did an incredible amount of "downsizing"... we piled everything out into the hall into piles - Trash, Keep, Donate, Sell/Consign/Craigslist...and of course, IDK.


Some of my favorite enviro-saving/doesn't cost me a dime things we did:
1. Scott had a lot of papers printed out to read for school over the past few years. Like, a lot. So, we've saved all the one-sided sheets that were in decent condition and we're going to primarily print our stuff on the backs of those - like grocery lists, directions...whatever. And only print on "real" paper when it's 100% necessary not to have it on the back of a study of human computer interaction.
2. Recycled the paper and cardboard boxes. We took 7 or 8 bags of paper to the Wake Country convenience center.
3. Donated to Goodwill...pretty much anything we could get away with! Lots and lots of various stuff.
4. Craigslisting!! I have 4 active postings right now... fingers crossed our "junk" can be someone else's treasure. Or at least something they'd pay money for...?

So here's the gallery...

The Desk & Workspace!

OMG, was there always a WINDOW there?? :) I keep walking up the stairs and I'm like, is there a light on in that room?? Nope, just the sun. Very cool!

We do want to get a new desk chair, if I do end up using it to do schoolwork/working from home. I really love what we've done with what we have... I don't think we'd *have* to buy anything new at all to make this a very usable room.

Okay, gotta soak up the rest of the weekend...