Too Much or Too Small

I can never decide if I have too much stuff or if my room is too small. For some reason, Sunday afternoon has started to become my organize and clean-up time in my room. I start the week with a freshly straightened room and by the end of the week it is a mess. I'm still learning how to live a busy life and keep my room clean and organized daily. If I presented this problem to my mother, I know what she would say--if I would set aside three to five minutes a day, I wouldn't have to worry about a more 'major' clean-up weekly. Back to my conundrum of too much or too small.

Let me explain my room. My room, closet, and the ten storage containers in the attic are home to all of my possessions. My room is square, maybe 15 x 15 feet.* I only have one full-sized bed, one nightstand, one chair, one filing cabinet, one dresser, and five bookcases (three tall and two small) in my room. My closet is maybe 4 x 6 feet.* I only have the majority of my clothes, four storage containers, extra hangers, extra blankets (I mound the blankets on my bed), and shoes scattered all over. (In today's cleaning, I decided I desperately need a shoe rack.) I only have ten large storage containers in the attic.

Now, I am honestly an organized person (though right now I feel awfully disorganized and smothered in my room since I can't find a way to organize my possessions so they'll stay organized). My books are all in alphabetical order by author. My t-shirts are sorted by color. My storage containers all have labels. I have a specific label for each of my file folders in my filing cabinet. I am a continual list maker. My clothes are organized by item (shirts, pants, dresses, shorts) and then within each item I group like items together (color, short-sleeved, long-sleeved).

I am frustrated that every weekend I am reorganizing the same articles or aspects. Each weekend I ask myself if I have too much stuff or if my room is too small. Though I keep memorabilia, I regularly purge everything. For instance, today I threw away five dresses and two boxes of books.

I think my current room organization issue is that I've acquired items which haven't been organized and designated a spot. Though the more I type and think about my problem I guess it doesn't matter if I have too much stuff or if my room is too small, I still need to take care of my possessions by finding a home for them and returning them to that home after they've been used. So, I will now probably think all evening and the majority of tomorrow about the best way to organize the places and aspects of room and possessions which do not have a home.

Yes, this is how much this is currently bothering me. Yes, I probably have a control and organization problem.

*My paltry estimations.