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Patty ~ I Do The MS Walk Everyday
Married to the Love of My Life
Raising 3 Sons who are the Lights of my Life ~ actually @ 23, I'm trying to gently shove my oldest out the door!
Well, even with going water walking and going to pick up Mom's laundry and helping her with some paperwork and hitting the store for eggs, I still managed one more BIG box last night (even though I didn't get home til around 7:45 - I'm off work at 4:15!!!!). It is FULL (to bulging) with different yarns and knitting/crocheting supplies as well as several partially finished projects. The two boxes of books to go bye-bye are in the truck. I am thinking about heading to Title Wave (used book store) to see if they want any of them at lunch time. If I don't go today, I may not be able to make it til Friday or Saturday and I really don't want to carry this stuff around til then. I just have to get it out of the house AND out of my truck!!!! But of course if I do that, it means that I don't get to actually chill out at lunch and the 30-40 minutes I manage to carve out of my hour lunch is just about the only time I get to actually relax!! Man, I need a vacation......
DH says that he can see where I am making a little bit of headway, so I guess it is worth it.....but it is still going to be a long road.
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
Good luck! I've got an odd little room on the second floor of my house. It's a tiny room with no heater, little insulation (our house is over 100 years old), teeny little window and some odd wall angles. The only purpose it serves is that it leads to the attic. We started by putting one of our dressers in there and then another storage unit from the bathroom. Then there was a clothes rack. Baby clothes. My skinny clothes. Christmas decorations. More baby clothes. Old storage units from my daughter's room. Winter clothes, summer clothes...Now there's no way to walk in the room to get to the stairs and I have no "gumption" to sort it out. Keep us posted with your progress because it might motivate me!
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That's funny, because we have a room like that too! Actually, it is our fourth bedroom, but it is too small to be anything but maybe a guest room, so we have a nice daybed in there for the niece or nephew when they come out from Anchorage. The room is right across the hallway from our laundry closet, so we pull the clean clothes out of the dryer, walk into the guest/laundry room and toss the clothes on the bed. Sometimes the pile of clean clothes sits there until most of it has been picked out and worn!! Who needs dressers? It seems like every single time that my DDs clean out their rooms, all the extra junk that they don't want ends up shoved into that room. It got so you couldn't hardly walk through from all the extra boxes, blankets, stuffed animals, outgrown clothes, etc!
We had a scare last year when we thought that my DMIL was going to have to move in with us (dodged that bullet, thank goodness!), and I dug the whole room out until it was empty, painted, put up crown moulding, and prettied it up. Now it's very pretty, with lots of clothes on the bed! I've had to dig it out a couple times, as apparently there is a bizarre magnetic pull to that room that attracts all the junk in the house! I'll keep fighting the battle........
That's funny, because we have a room like that too! Actually, it is our fourth bedroom, but it is too small to be anything but maybe a guest room, so we have a nice daybed in there for the niece or nephew when they come out from Anchorage. The room is right across the hallway from our laundry closet, so we pull the clean clothes out of the dryer, walk into the guest/laundry room and toss the clothes on the bed. Sometimes the pile of clean clothes sits there until most of it has been picked out and worn!! Who needs dressers? It seems like every single time that my DDs clean out their rooms, all the extra junk that they don't want ends up shoved into that room. It got so you couldn't hardly walk through from all the extra boxes, blankets, stuffed animals, outgrown clothes, etc!
We had a scare last year when we thought that my DMIL was going to have to move in with us (dodged that bullet, thank goodness!), and I dug the whole room out until it was empty, painted, put up crown moulding, and prettied it up. Now it's very pretty, with lots of clothes on the bed! I've had to dig it out a couple times, as apparently there is a bizarre magnetic pull to that room that attracts all the junk in the house! I'll keep fighting the battle........
Good luck with your room!
This room is pretty small too. I initally used it as an office before (and for a while after) I got married. Now it hold books, craft stuff, lots of books, more craft stuff, boxes of stuff that have been "cleaned out" of other rooms in the house, oh, and did I mention all the books? The room is, as I said, kinda small and not really good for anything and if it's an office, it means that when DH wants to play his computer games we are in differnt rooms and I don't like that. Makes me (and he) feel like we don't want to be together. Basically it's only good for storage.
My DS apparently feels the same about dressers as you guys (and I and DH are almost as bad)! Plus we have WAY too many clothes. I've managed to get them all hung up and put away and now I'm trying to weed out some of them. NEED TO DOWNSIZE!!!! Oh, and speaking of DS and books.....he just snagged three books out of the box to go to the library that he HAS TO READ......Now I'm really glad he wants to read, but this is counterproductive!!!! Made him take the books in and put them on the shelves in his room!
I am starting to sock away about $20-30 a paycheck to pay for new carpet and paint for the living room once we get the walls ripped down. I'm a little worried about what do actually do on the walls. I really don't want to have to re-paper, but I may have to. I put up a textured paintable wall covering in the current living room and it's not on the walls in the extra room so once the room is torn down, there will be two walls in the living room that don't match. Not sure if I can find this wall covering still. Guess I will have to start looking now. Or start figuring out what I am going to do instead.
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
Good luck!
I bet the signs of progress are inspiring.
I need to do the same thing in our spare bedrooms. Not that we have any great plans for the space, other than we could have company.
Sounds like fun.
I did our attice a couple months ago because that's where I hide the Christmas presents and I couldn't even walk up there. There was stuff left up there from the previous owners (We've lived there for 4 years) that we never got rid of.
I LOVE doing stuff like that, once I start a project I won't stop that's why I did it on a weekend while my DH was working, plus I could get rid of some of his junk I would love to be one of those "professional licensed organizers" like on Hoarders! Great, but sometimes sad show.
Didn't get a lot done last night. Managed to get over to Title Wave and drop off books. They didn't want the hard backs, so I'm going to give those to the library in the little town where my dad lives. They did take a good number of the paperbacks. Gave me around $35 worth or credit so that's good. Didn't have time to get over to pick up what they didn't want so they donated those to somewhere.
Boxed up another box of books to head to storage. And managed to clean up/throw away junk from two other partially filled boxes and sort out a few more books into keeper and donate piles.
Tonight is going to be hard to get a lot done. Going waterwalking right after work, then home to pick up DS for Boy Scout meeting. While he is there, hope to go over to storage unit to drop off three boxes of books in my car and pick up some of the Christmas storage boxes so that I can get all that down and put away. While I'm there, I need to pick up DH's dart board so that my Dad can use it in his basement instead of it gathering dust in storage and hopefully re-organize a little at the unit before going back to pick up DS at scouts.
Somewhere in there, I hope to eat something so I don't fall over from hunger! So may not get a lot out of the room tonight, but I will still be doing stuff that will help with the progress of the project!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
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Okay - posting here is kind of helping to keep me on track and accountable! I didn't get anything done in the actual room last night.
Got off work at 4:05, dropped off books (out of the black hole) at the storage unit and picked up Christmas ornament boxes, went water walking, picked up son and his buddy, took them to scouts, got info for tour permit (DS has a camping trip tonight and tomorrow), picked up prescription for a friend of mine, dropped that off and FINALLY got to go home at around 8:15!! Luckily, DS's buddy's mom offered to pick boys up from scouts so I didn't have to go back for that. Managed to get about half the tree undecorated. Planning on getting more done tonight so that I have more room to work with when sorting stuff out. I may have to help drive the boys to their camping trip if some other parents don't step up. Which means I will probably have to go back tomorrow and pick up too. Kinda throws a monkey wrench in my plans, but hey, a Mom's gotta do what a Mom's gotta do! Right???
Thanks for listening and being my conscience and motivators!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
You're getting something done, you should be feeling a sense of accomplishment! I know how the running of kids all over is and sounds like you're doing a pretty darn good job. It's tough, I would totally help you if you weren't 3700 miles away
You're getting something done, you should be feeling a sense of accomplishment! I know how the running of kids all over is and sounds like you're doing a pretty darn good job. It's tough, I would totally help you if you weren't 3700 miles away
Thanks for the offer but that would be a little far to commute ....luckily, a couple of DS's buddies' moms are great about helping out. What sucks is DH's schedule sometimes makes it difficult for him to help. He is often getting off work right when we have to be some where to drop off or pick up. For instance, pick up tomorrow after the camping trip is probably about 4:00 and is a 30 minute or so drive away. DH gets off work at 4:00. So it will again fall to me to pick up. Now, I might have him do the drop off tonight. They don't meet til 8:00 at the church so if he is feeling up to it I will talk him into driving out tonight. (if you are following other thread....DS managed to crack/bruise Dad's ribs so he is moving slow ).
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Jennifer! Sounds the space will be a great addition to your home for many reasons! 
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But of course if I do that, it means that I don't get to actually chill out at lunch and the 30-40 minutes I manage to carve out of my hour lunch is just about the only time I get to actually relax!! Man, I need a vacation......
Who needs dressers? It seems like every single time that my DDs clean out their rooms, all the extra junk that they don't want ends up shoved into that room. It got so you couldn't hardly walk through from all the extra boxes, blankets, stuffed animals, outgrown clothes, etc! 
Made him take the books in and put them on the shelves in his room!
There was stuff left up there from the previous owners (We've lived there for 4 years) that we never got rid of. 
I would love to be one of those "professional licensed organizers" like on Hoarders! Great, but sometimes sad show.
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