Organizing our "dumping zone"

About 4 months ago, for pure convience, we moved our desk out of the office and into our living area. This has made it much easier to keep an eye on little ones while getting some things done on the computer. However, the desk is the first big flat surface as you come in the front door. It quickly became the dumping ground for everything...mail, coupons, bills, and I am notorius for my sticky notes. So as you can imagine, we are constantly battling this beast!

I came across OrgJunkie and got some inspiration to clean up this area!

Here are some before pictures

Part way through - OrgJunkie says to pull everything out before organizing, I was amazed at how much junk this helped me find and be able to toss! Great idea!

And some after pictures - the yellow bag is of borrowed books so that will be gone soon :)




Now lets see how long we can keep it this way!!