It's our living room floor!
I had an inkling that it was still there underneath my stack of miscellaneous but haven't been inclined to find it lately. Don't get me wrong, I have definitely not been ramping up to be on Hoarders, but it has been a while since I have gotten the house under control and organized at one time.
I blame the children and husband.
I am an organizer by nature; I love to have everything in a specified labeled location. I enjoy my dvd's alphabetized, books arranged aesthetically by size on the shelf (big to little to big), and having a "spot" for each item.
The complication lately has been that I spend a copious amount of time picking up and moving clutter from the kids and husband, therefore I don't get to go through my "organizing and cleaning" shindigs. I get them started well enough, spread things out all over the floor, get halfway through it and then dump everything back into the tubs or boxes. I might move things from tub to tub, room to room, attic to living room, etc. Which I still claim is progress; they just haven't been getting done all at the same time.
With the purchase of a new shelving system and redecorating an old dresser into our new TV stand, I have finally gotten the place back into a semblance of order. Tonight I power-housed through and got the extra books boxed up and into the attic, pre-pregnancy clothes divorced, bookshelves reorganized (our kindergartner is starting to take over another shelf...) and the latest round of clothes the children have outgrown folded and packed into tubs.
I have ONE last tub of random items to find homes for and then the last of hubby's miscellaneous clutter to distribute and the whole living room will be reclaimed. Luckily, I finally trained hubby and our eldest child that the kitchen is not a catch-all. Now to begin training that the living room is no longer a catch-all and that is what bedrooms are for.
That is a fight for another night though. I plan on enjoying the simplicity of my empty floor and ignoring that there is two more loads of laundry to wash and fold. I mean, there's always laundry to do so what's the rush?
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