Progress..... Slowly

This whole purging thing is tough. I mean it's mentally exhausting. I've gone in every room, every closet, every corner of my home and it's just embarrassing. I have stuff everywhere. I've let things go and it's bad.
I intended to start big. I wanted to tackle my picture situation, which is overwhelming in itself. I have years and years on unorganized pictures that are either prints or on a disk. My goal is to create photo albums for my family to enjoy and not leave all of these images on a computer or a disk. Then I wanted to work on my attic and garage. The two worst spaces in our home. But I have been walking in circles the past couple of days and I feel like I'm not making enough progress. I'm the kind of person that wants it done but I want it done now. But with this, it's a process and I have to keep telling myself that. It's not going to be overnight. It may take months to get to where we need to be. Oh my goodness, I can't imagine doing this for months but I guess that's a reality.
So I need to approach this more realistically. Following Dave Ramsey's view in getting out of debt, I'm going to start at the bottom. The smallest, least cluttered room in the house. I have decided to start in my closet. Which honestly is probably not the least cluttered but it's where I decided to start, it's where I feel like I will be able to feel accomplished. If I can start small it will motivate me to push through and move forward in this.
I want this so bad. I need it. I crave it. The simplicity of it. The thought of clutter being out of my life is like a breathe of fresh air and I know it will be worth it.
I am really excited about it but it's harder than I thought it would be. I am attached to " things" more than I should be, but it's freeing to let go.
And I plan to let go a lot over the next few months.
I did make a little progress today, I took a load of Ava's clothes to a consignment shop and the rest of them I'm donating to the elementary school. It feels good to let go and tomarrow I will do more. One small step at a time..

I took a few pictures of our house. These are my before pictures, and I hope that one day soon I'll have after pictures to post.

pictures coming soon... having some trouble with blogger and won't let me upload:( They're pretty embarrasing anyway so its cool;)