Clean & organize the media closet is one of today’s
tasks listed on the Get it Together, Already Cleaning Schedule.
You may be wondering
what a media closet is. Well, when we
built our house we wanted our television on the wall above the fireplace but we
didn’t want to see any cables or cable boxes or DVD players or any of that kind
of stuff. So along with an outlet we
installed a cable outlet (well it was actually more that just a cable outlet
but I don’t know all the technicalities of it) behind where the TV would hang
and ran all the cables through the wall and ceiling to a small linen closet in
the hall nearby. Then, we got a DVR and a DVD player with remotes that work
through walls & doors & such that live in the media closet. So that’s what a media closet is. You may have an extra linen closet or a game
closet or whatever. If it’s an extra
closet that hasn’t been cleaned yet and it’s not in a bedroom, it should get
cleaned this week according to the schedule.
We use this closet to store the above-mentioned equipment as
well as DVDs, board games, puzzles and a couple of blow-up mattresses. For me, this is an easy clean so I didn’t
take before pictures. They would look
very much like the after pictures below.
But here is a photo of all the stuff I ended up taking out.
Yard sale goodies!
Here are the “after” photos.
I wanted to point out how we store our DVDs . . . in an old
CD case.
I took them all out of their original cases, which I store
in the basement storage closet, and then organized them by genres. Or at least what I define as a genre. Then I got some Post-it tabs similar to
these at Staples and I labeled them with my handy dandy label-er, (one of the
best gifts ever!) And I stuck them on
the edge of CD sleeve page when needed.
My genre labels are:
Action
Children &
Family - which I sub-divided into:
Cartoons
Comedy
Disney
Classics
Disney
Fairies
Disney
Princesses
Education
Faith
Family
Animation
Kids Music
Musicals
Sci-fi /
Fantasy
Classics
Comedy
Exercise
Foreign
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-fi /Fantasy
Thriller
I hope you found this helpful.
Have a great day! B.
