Do you have one of those spaces that you dread going into and dread cleaning out because of all the clutter and debris? I’m a bit of a neat freak and I like the house “just so.” But I”m afraid that, due to a frantic lifestyle which includes but is not limited to two children in various activities, one tiny dog, two stores, one full-time profession, three executive board memberships…well, you get the picture, there are a few places in our home that are less than perfect. One of them is our basement which, unfortunately, has become a catch-all for everything that doesn’t have a proper home anywhere else in the house, in addition to all of the seasonal decor and a make-shift play area where our youngest daughter enjoys the umpteen boxes of cabbage patch kid clothes that my mom made for me when I was young. I have come to terms with the fact that mere days after cleaning and organizing this space, someone brings something down and just “puts” it wherever they happen to stop walking, thus negating all tidying efforts. So this space gets cleaned about once a year so that there is a home for the deck furniture for the winter.
Our other dreaded clutter space has been the laundry room. It’s a rather big room and, when we moved in, became home to the HUGE dollhouse my father made for me when I was little. Basically, we didn’t have any other good place to put it and our girls were too young to play with it. Since then, our youngest daughter has fallen in love with it and it has been pulled into the middle of that room, making it difficult to even DO the laundry.
Obviously, the reason for this incredibly long post is my elation at having attacked one of our dreaded clutter spaces. After taking the girls kitchen set to my niece in the cities, the toy closet became big enough for the dollhouse which cleared the laundry room from the giant cabinet in the middle, thus allowing it to be free for laundry once again! Oh happy day!
As a small aside, dust/lint bunnies in a laundry room can really reach epic proportions!
