I am not an organized person. I try to be but I am not. I have drawers and boxes and baskets and files full of things (and I sure like to buy things that help me get a bit more organized) but mostly I have piles of things that should be organized and put in their right place but in the piles they stay. And we have too much stuff. We both have a lot of magazines, books, CDs and DVDs. So I decided that the first step to getting more organized is to get rid of some stuff that we really don’t need anymore. Inspired by Benita from Chez Larsson and her amazing organizing skills, especially her post on organizing magazines, I decided to sort out my magazines first. So last night (yes, this is exactly the kind of stuff I do on Saturday nights), armed with scissors and a glass of delicious pear cider I looked through all my decorating magazines and cut out to save only the pages that had something inspiring on them. Like Benita, I am going to put them into a folder for easy access and storage. It was fun to look through all my magazines, especially the different Finnish, Swedish, English and American interior design magazines from the last couple of years. It was interesting to see if the images I had liked the best two years ago were the same ones that caught my eye now (some were and some were not). I think I’ll scan some of my favorite images and share them with you next week.