I don’t have a lot of unnecessary stuff in my apartment since there’s really not room for much more than the necessary. I have two and a half closets for all my clothes, towels and bed sheets and a cleaning closet (or whatever it’s called) for cleaning supplies and storage of extra shampoo, toilet paper etc. For personal rather than necessary things I have a cabinet in the hallway and a chest in the living room and that’s it. That’s how it goes when 400 books and their shelves takes up most of the space of the apartment.

Still, I have lots and lots more stuff than what’s in my apartment. In the basement storage room which holds all the things I don’t want in my apartment but don’t want to throw away either plus winter clothes, cat carriers, bags and stuff I don’t have use for all year round. There’s also a lot of empty boxes there right now which I’m saving since I plan to move and will be needing them then. Today I was organizing the storage room and it ended up quite all right. It still looks messy but now at least everything is in the right boxes. You see I dump things there for months in piles and plastic bags which leaves the room in a total mess which I then have to deal with sooner or later. Today was one of those days and this is what my organized storage room looks like.

Can you imagine all this stuff in my 26,5 scare meter apartment?!

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