what can only amount to "spring cleaning"

Why is it that cleaning always makes more of a mess before you get it completely clean?

I'm talking, of course, in the big cleaning picture.... people like me, who don't have an organizational/clean bone in her body! I let things pile up, get cluttered, get disorganized, and then have this huge burst of "THIS MUST GET CLEAN NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!"

That's where I am.. I'm attempting to clean up my closet.. not clean out, just clean up. I have this terrible habit of not hanging things back up and just throwing them on the pile that accumulates. Even when I do laundry, I take clothes out of the dryer... some (very few) get hung up immediately, and the rest usually get folded.. ok.. good.. I fold. But then, the clean clothes just get set in a stack in the closet. I have a dresser... I could put clothes in there.. but I can't get to it! In front of it are boxes of computer stuff that need a home. I"ve lived here since July, and haven't gotten a computer desk, so my scanner, my external hard drive, my CDs, etc, they don't have a home, nad they're still in boxes.

I am just a mess!

I wonder if even one of those professional organizer people could help me. All the storage options in the world don't do any good if I don't use them! Heck, I work in retail, I know how to hang up clothes, and yet, rarely do it! The good news, when I'm buying stuff now, I'm also bringing home the hangers, so there's a chance that I'll have enough for all the crap I'm buying. I really should clean things out and get rid of stuff.

I'm working.. I finally started sneezing, so I had to take a break. Good news is that I worked almost an hour straight, bad news, it still doesn't look like I've done a thing! I've still got some laundry to do, lots of garbage to take out, and things to hang up. And tha'ts just from my closet. Let's not even get into what my bedroom floor looks like!