Itty bitty living space

Until Tuesday, I'd been using my tiny laundry room (situated just off of the patio) for storage. At just under 600 s/f, this apartment is Lilliputian at best, and despite my best efforts to simplify, I still manage to hang on to way too much stuff, so the laundry room was ideal as a storage space. Cue my sister's move to Florida from Virginia Beach, and I am now the very happy caretaker of an awesome washer and dryer (since her new place already has a washer and dryer, she asked me to keep her set so that they wouldn't just be wasting away in storage - hurrah for me). I am a laundry loving girl. Clean, warm clothes are bliss, so naturally I'm thrilled with my newest acquisition, but now I have a storage problem. Everything from the laundry room is now in my livingroom, albeit neatly packed into storage containers, and well, the livingroom is small.

Clutter makes me very jittery, and I've been trying to noodle this out for the past two nights, but so far I've only moved the pedestal table and chairs back outside, and taken the lid off of a box. I've decided to repack everything and store the boxes temporarily in the walkin closet, then when I have more time, go through each box and throw away as much as possible. I'm giving myself an hour tonight to make some serious headway, and then bed. Tomorrow night has to be the wrapup, because this is sort of driving me nuts, and I'm in St. Pete this weekend (and would not dream of returning to a messy apartment - I  know, it's a flaw).

The rule is that if I haven't used it in six months, it goes.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.