One of my resolutions for 2012 is to take control and get ahead.

I'm starting with organizing and unloading. We've lived in our house for five years and the amount of "stuff" we've accumulated is out right embarrassing.  The kiddos and I recently went through their toys and handed many down to a friend, who was more than happy to reuse them in her own home. I also boxed up many of their play clothes and sent them to an orphanage in Poland. Their nice clothes went to my best friend and a box saved for my sister's future kids.

So. I've been incredibly busy cleaning, tossing, giving and organizing all of our stuff from the ground up. Just last week this storage room in our basement was stuffed with items and not at all walkable. Look at it now:

Impressive, no? A lot of work went into it. We went from a room FILLED with kid's stuff to just a couple of plastic bins on shelves. Now the dog has room to explore a room that was, for years, not walkable.

Motivated by the basement results, I started to tackle my own closet this weekend. Again, it's out right embarrassing how much stuff I have in there but haven't touched in years. I stood in my closet and asked myself "What should I sell?"- a question sellers on eBay ask often enough that their data analyst team created a list of high-demand items sold successfully on eBay.

A peek of my first listing on eBay.

More to come later. I have an entire house full of "stuff" and this is the year that I'm going to take control of it all. Check me out on eBay here.

"I am an eBay Parent Panel Partner. This post is sponsored by eBay. Opinion and experience are my own."