I’m few days ahead. Let me list the challenges…
Day 13: Medicine Cabinet-I just couldn’t wait and got that done the other day.
Day 14: Spice Cabinet- that got done yesterday.
Day 15: Medicine cabinet/vitamins- for those who keep some meds in the kitchen with their vitamins. I don’t have that. They’re all in the bathroom. That was today’s challenge for me if I go in order.
Day16: The Refridgerator- I did that the same day as the Freezer challenge.
Day 17: Mail Station. I don’t have a system for that and need to think on this one though.
Day 18: Keepsakes…. This was good to tackle today since it’s Saturday.
Here’s the pictures of my chests:
The black trunk is what I’ve had since high school!! I’m serious! I got my grandmother’s chest-she’s had it since she first got married! It isn’t worth much but still beautiful! It was sitting in the basement with junks sitting on top of it. It had my name on it for many years. I just finally asked for it now. 
My dad wanted to refinish the top of the chest which made it look so much healthier! THANKS DAD!! I got that about 6 months ago and never got around to swapping the things in the chest to the new chest. So, Bowl of Lemons got me motivated to get that done.
I’ll post two pictures of BEFORE:
TOP PICTURE: my stuffed animals. It’s silly, I know but they’re precious! Mickey Mouse from my first time going to the Disney World…every kid’s dream vacation! My bunnies- There’s a sentimental story with why I was obsessed with bunnies. I saved few of my favorites. My first baby doll. The brown teddy (you can see it better in the AFTER picture.) I have taken so much of abuse from my family on how ugly that teddy bear was. They just don’t know how sentimental I was about it. See, I went to Six Flags for the first time when I was maybe 6 years old. I went with my 2 oldest sisters, 2 cousins and my aunt n’ uncle in St Louis. On our way back to the parking lot since it was dark, this young lady (probably a teenager) came up to me with the teddy bear. Now, I’m Deaf and rely on light to be able to read lips but also rely on sign language more than I do lipreading. This lady, I couldn’t see what she was saying even though she squatted down and handed me the bear. I assumed she was asking if that belonged to me. I said no. My oldest sister came down and signed “She is asking you if you want it. She wants to give to you.” OOhhh, I took it. Just that it was a really generous thing she did. There was a guy with her. He probably won it for her but thought a kid should have it. I don’t know! But how generous she was just touched my heart. I just cannot get rid of this bear! As silly as it sounds, whenever I was down, I just loved holding that bear. I slept with it for a long time. Ok, enough confession. The white teddy bear, my second sister made the t-shirt for this one when I transferred to residential school, I think.
BOTTOM PICTURE- memobilas of anything with the St Louis Cardinals sent my my grandmother in St Louis. My high school year book from the local HS I attended, my elmentary yearbooks, Prom glasses… few things I kept that connects to my past.
Here’s one thing I found and that’s something that they don’t do anymore, I don’t think….
Here’s the AFTER:
I do have some space in this one! I could fill ‘em up some more as the years goes by.
Now, what to do with the black trunk? IDEA!!!! You can see my patterns now? I have an idea, I go for it so I don’t procastinate on this project.
Check out the area I need the trunk for:
These boxes holds my supplies, albums, pages for the scrapbooking…. It’s in the corner of my bedroom. Bit eyesore, I’d say. So, I cleared them all out of the boxes.
Here’s the AFTER:
Much better! The trunk was originally upstairs in the guest room. Now, there’s no heat going upstairs because one room is used as storage, and the other as guest room. I don’t get guests often. It is not good to store the scrapbooking stuff in hot/cold room. So, it’ll stay in my bedroom. It’s fine cuz it doesn’t look as bad as those cardboardboxes. Haha I PROMISE I will get to clear off the papers that’s piled up on there. Just not today. I’ll do that instead of a challenge I don’t have such as mail station.
Off to the verizon to pay a bill. Their systems were down yesterday, so I couldn’t make my payment. FUN FUN FUN!
Have a SUPER CLEAN weekend!
