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How about a room of the month club? What I mean is if you want to join the club, you post a picture of the room that you are planning to tackle this month. (Before - just as it all lies...) and then you get to parade your astonishing success here for everyone to hurrah and pat you on the back. You can also post weekly progress...I will go first as soon as I find my camera...
Great idea - I'm afraid that I started some of mine without photos. My DIL is an art teacher. She can see things differently than I do. I'm a firm believer in photos. You can see things differently through the eye of the camera than you can through you own eyes. Yeah, let's see if your mess is as bad as mine was. ;0)
After thinking this through, I have decided to take the "Before" pictures, but only post them if when I have an "After" picture to post with it! No reason to publicly humiliate myself without any gain...
Maybe I could start small - say, a corner of one room. That would be easier to accomplish and maybe get some early feeling of success.
I would like to join in a couple of weeks from now after my son has moved out and I have access to his bedroom. I am really looking forward to having some extra storage space for all of my loot. This should be lots of fun.
Did he take his stuff with him? That can be a clutter problem in itself when kids leave and most of their stuff stays behind...That's also why people that move frequently don't have as big of a clutter stash as those who have lived in the same place for years!
Hi Caitlin - Tucker doesn't move out until next Wednesday, July 1. So far everything is still like it has always been. I hope for goodness that he takes the majority of his things. He has a packed closet full of sports shirts and the amount of high dollar sneakers he has is outrageous.
I have a three page list of things that he either needs to get together here or to go and buy. I am trying to think of things as I go through the day and jot them down, if they are necessary to have on hand. This is really an exciting time for both of us. He left on Wednesday for a couple of nights at the beach with some friends. I suppose that he plans to wait until the last minute to try and get things together.
He and I plan to go shopping on Monday for the items that he will need there. He is going to probably fuss about the cost of things, but this will be his first lesson in seeing how "The Real World" works. He has no idea the expense of running a household. He is in store for a big surprise. LOL Poor guy.
I am hoping to take this one room at a time challenge. I am so glad that you thought of it Caitlin. Thank you.
I hope that everyone will have a good weekend and gets lots of things accomplished. Take care.
We were kind of fed up with having our son's stuff in our house when he had been gone for 10 years. We even paid to move some of it over here. So when he and his new wife came home for Thanksgiving they found a garage full of stuff to sort. I had labeled the boxes with his name with labels I made on the computer. And then I added her name in a bigger font and taped them on with his tags after they eloped November 2nd. DS had been telling me that I could do what I wanted with his stuff - but I made him go through it anyway. He took very little out, I went through the boxes before I took them to the thrift store. I wanted some of the kitchen things I had given him and we figured we could always wear/share some of the half dozen hoodies he had stored there. (We love having fires and wienie roasts in back yard with kids from church.)
My son had spent BIG bucks customizing a Tacoma. Then they had to sell it and all that money for fancy wheels, stereo, seat covers, etc. went down the toilet. I've never said anything to him about it. Does he realize how hard it is to bite my tongue? He's the only person I know who violates the laws of physics - you know that law that states that a body cannot occupy two places at once? He can be at the top AND at the same time the very bottom of my "sh** list".
Got to get back to preparations to go see the most beautiful grandbaby in the whole wide world.
After storing my sons stuff since he left for college a few years ago, he moved back home... with more stuff. And then when he moved out again, everytime I visited him, I took boxes and bags of everything he had left behind until it is all at his home now!
Course that gives me more room to store more stuff I don't need to keep!
I think the picture idea would give incentive to "get it done". I tend to just move things from one room to the next. I recently cleaned out a closet and I have lots of bedspreads in bags to give away...I wish I had taken a before picture..maybe I won't want to fill the space back up so quickly or purchase more bedspreads if I put up a picture to remind me of the before. So that too might be another reason to take the picture. I personally think I don't ever "see" the big picture of a cluttered room, I know its cluttered but I walk thru never actually taking it all in to how much stuff there is accumulated. I mostly notice it when I'm looking for something and have to move things and stack things. tish
Yeah, I used to move things from room to room, too, but now I have run out of rooms! Good luck finding a new home for your bedspreads, etc. I have begun to shop at secondhand stores, some of which offer very good things at very reasonable prices. A good idea for these lean economic times. If we would all move our excess to Secondhand Rose's Closet, we would be able live with less clutter and buy what we need for less.
My new goal: A bag a week to this good cause!
