Update.

Finished rearranging the basement guest room closet. :) 

The first picture is about 25 boxes of stuff upstairs in the storage room (a normal bedroom closet with sliding doors). The next picture is the basement guest room closet "before" (emptied of the gazillion games but still with the old inefficient shelving). And, the last picture is the basement guest room closet now, having purged and consolidated the boxes from the upstairs closet and adding a few tubs of holiday decorations that were in a different closet. 

And, for those who are wondering, from my earlier post, I ended up keeping most of the papers. :) They fit in the box, so it's okay, right? ;) (and we just won't talk about those other couple crates of papers we discovered upstairs earlier today...lol!)

Woohoo! Now on to the next step...redoing the other basement closet so that we have someplace to put the stuff we sort out of the storage room (which is currently packed full again with stuff). Um, here's what that closet looks like right now:

(It's actually a decent sized space, roughly 9' x 5' with some more space to the left under the stairs...I think it was originally roughed in to be an additional bathroom.)

Yeah. It'll be awhile... ;)