Hi welcome to my channel Organized With Joy I'm Joy and I want to inspire you to get organized
in today's video I will be cleaning up my husband's side of the closet and
he will be helping me go through all of those cord boxes on the top shelf
I start this project just by pulling down all the boxes off the shelf
and we're actually going to take them downstairs where we have a wide open space in the living room
to go through all these boxes
if you know me personally or if you've been following me here on YouTube for awhile or even on Instagram
you may know what a thorn in my side these boxes have been
they're just filled with cords and my husband just hasn't really wanted to take the time to go through them
but a few weeks ago we went through a box that was in my son's closet
and he realized it wasn't as hard as he was anticipating it to be
so he did agree to help me go through these cords on this day
you might notice throughout this process that really I don't do a whole lot
I'm just there I guess for moral support and eventually I start untangling the cords for him
but the whole reason why I had not gone through these cords by myself is because
most of these I had not clue what they were what they belonged to or if we should keep them
and come to find out my husband really didn't either I was anticipating him knowing
what things were and what was important to keep and what we could get rid of
but the truth is my husband didn't even really know what many of these cords
were or what they belonged to either
I had actually organized these cords into these boxes several years back
I tried my best to organize them with like cords together but I didn't do the best job
I realized we had to spend quite a bit of time trying  to find cords for specific pieces of electronics
and so it was definitely a process just rial and error trying to find what cords belonged
to what and just trying to decide what to keep we did decide to keep some cords
just to have on hand but not nearly as many as we had before
if you're new to my channel welcome thank you so much for clicking on my video today
I hope it inspires you in some way to organize or clean out a space in your home
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I love getting to know y'all so please leave down in the comments if you have cord boxes
like this stashed away in a closet or are you good at getting rid of cords once you know you're finished using
them I would love to hear from y'all what you do
A huge shout out to my sweet husband who was willing to help me out with this project
he actually took this day off of work and so it was really kind of him to spend part of
his day off helping me declutter and organize a space
once we were done decluttering all of the cords I went ahead and grabbed
a couple of extra storage boxes that I had on hand these like cardboard IKEA boxes and
I organized the cords that were left into these two IKEA storage boxes
my plan was to transition his side of the closet to using these IKEA storage boxes because that
is what I have on my side of the closet it ended up  not working out in the end
but I'll talk about that a little later in the video so stay tuned to see what I end up doing
okay so it's late in the day and I need to start dinner soon so I'm going to stop for today
but since my husband had the day off I wanted him to go ahead and work on this project today
so this is where we're at at the end of the day these two boxes are holding all the cords that we own now
with the exception of a few that are that belong to his music items or his instruments
so this is a box that needs to be organized into his desk upstairs in our bedroom
then these two boxes hold music books and things that have to do with his instruments that he owns
and things like that I have a pile that I need to ask my son about and then here are all of those plastic boxes
so we made good progress today
and here is the huge box of stuff to get rid of so I'm really happy with the progress we made today
I would like to keep working but I've got to make dinner soon so I might have to pick up tomorrow and finish
this project up
you may notice by the outfit change that this is the next day but I wanted to go ahead and
clean the shelf off since everything was removed and I decided to go ahead and straighten everything up
and clean off these other shelves where he has his pants and sweatshirts stored
so I go ahead and refold some of those items after I clean the shelf
I did actually ask my husband I gave him a choice I asked him if he would prefer to go through
the cords or if he would want to go through his clothes and I was surprised to hear that he chose
the cords and actually a little bit relieved because I thought that is much more difficult
and definitely more of an eye sore for me personally
I go ahead and finish up this project by taking the time to dust off the clothes rod
and I just go ahead and straighten up his clothes and kind of move things around
and try to just get it to a place where it is neat looking
so I really wanted to remove this footage completely from the video because I was so
frustrated with myself that I went through all this work of moving all of these items
into these IKEA storage boxes but like I mentioned in the end it did not work out and so I end up
doing something different but I decided to keep this footage in just to show you that organizing
and getting spaces the way you like them and the way that is really functional for you or your family
is not always easy and it's not always a straight path so I just wanted to encourage you
that sometimes things don't turn out like you expected and you might have to try something
a little different
so one of the things that was difficult about these boxes is they weren't super functional
they are actually kind of difficult to grab and pull off the shelf because even though they are made of cardboard
they are much more flimsy than those plastic storage boxes I was using beofre
so it makes it difficult to pull them down
this may be silly to some people but ultimately I didn't like the way they looked as well as I liked the plastic
boxes so I end up going ahead and switching them out and using the plastic boxes instead
I go ahead and give each box a good clean before I put in all the items that  I want to store up there
I actually want to do another purge of my clothing and go through my side of the closet
I did on this day work on reorganizing the boxes that were at the top of my closet
I didn't record that process but I will have a future video of deep cleaning this entire closet
and also going through my clothes again and I'm crossing my fingers and hoping
that I can be more ruthless I constantly teeter on wanting to do a capsule wardrobe
and just wanting to have a lot of options so look forward to that video and see what I end up doing
and here is what it looked like after please let me know if you like the plastic boxes
or the IKEA storage boxes better function wise the plastic boxes just  made more sense
and so I guess in the end I'm happy with the decision that I made
thanks for watching my video today I hope it gave you some inspiration or some motivation
to clean declutter or organize a space in your home thanks and we'll see you next time bye
