Inventory

My room exploded!!  In a good way though.  Not my bedroom, but the room I use for my ecommerce inventory.

Being that it is a new year, I have to know where my inventory stands for tax purposes.  Let's be honest here, my inventory room is out of order, cluttered, and shared with my mother's belongings.  Therefore, if you can imagine, it's quite full and I'm not able to take a proper inventory, let alone walk!

The last two nights after work, I have spent several hours working on emptying the room so that I can start almost from scratch.  Although this sounded like a good idea, I ran out of room a short while after starting.  The hallway was overflowing with product, my bedroom is hardly walkable, and I had to climb over things and try not to knock things off the shelves!

What I decided to do was to empty one bookcase I use for shelves, clean it, and start putting things back on it.  What have I learned the hard way?  Liquids on the bottom!  When I restocked the shelves, all light and non liquid items are on the top shelves.  They aren't organized by category, but at least they are on the shelves grouped together.

Still...I don't have enough room!  What was the solution?  Remove many of my mother's belongings from the room to free up the space.  She wasn't too keen on this because that means more work for her to try and figure out where to put this extra stuff that she hasn't seen in several years.  Where did she put it?  Right by all the stuff I was trying to organize and get rid of in the basement!  Ugh!!  I told her that she is causing more work this way, but, what to do?

Last night I worked about 5 hours, and got quite a bit done, actually I'm pretty close to being finished, at least with the organization part of it.  So many of my mother's things were taken out and this gave me more room to organize and see what I have so I can sell it!

After this tiring project, I will have to go in and type out what I have and figure the cost of it all.  Not fun, but it's the cost of doing business and running it alone.

Clutter, clutter...oh how you make me shudder!