Last week, I finished the office and that primarily consisted of organizing and removing everything that was in there that had no business being there. The office is consistently my dumping ground. Then this week, I moved onto the former TV room. It was a disaster! I had my yard sale prep stuff in there and then after the sale, it became our secondary dumping ground after the office was full. Of course, I didn’t bother taking a RECENT photo of that disaster but here are some older pre-yard sale pics:
And that’s only half of the pictures from the yard sale. This stuff was all over everywhere. It was about 5 feet high and everywhere!!! After we got rid of all the stuff, I still had the remants and the keepers and of course 2 months of dumping ground & cleaning out the office stuff in there.
We’ve decided to turn it into the playroom/homeschool room. We have moved most of Lil’ Bits toys downstairs and shortly we will be moving our couch downstairs so the supervising moms have a place to sit. We have another couch that will be taking it’s place. Now, we have a HUGE beautiful room for lots of kids to be able to play:
I had decided to keep all my old plastic drawers that I was going to sell at the yard sale and I’m really glad I did. There is a TON of room for the Christmas & Birthday toys that are coming. Of course, there was toy purging and saving (for the next one(s) as I was doing it). I was also super excited to find the Dr. Seuss Letter mural on clearance at Borders for $5.99. She is really getting into figuring them out and LOVES using that with her Magnetic Letters.
Of course, this means in the next few weeks (or months, more likely), you will be seeing a post on the clean up of what will eventually be Lil’ Bit’s bedroom. Now IT is the official dumping ground. And it’s full. Well, not entirely, but almost.
So what have you tackled this week? Join the fun at 5 Minutes for Mom. This post is also linked to Blitz-It Fridays at Organized Everyday.
Jena: organizing mommy
6 November 2009 at 2:43 PM (15 years ago)Wow! That’s a HUGE room! You did a great job! Thanks for joining us!.
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Eos Mom
6 November 2009 at 11:04 AM (15 years ago)Great job, the room looks fabulous!
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Rachel
4 November 2009 at 1:10 PM (15 years ago)you sure did tackle it!
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Rebecca
3 November 2009 at 5:48 PM (15 years ago)There’s always a dumping room or space isn’t there? For us it’s our master bedroom and/or laundry room – only place that guests don’t see. Great clean up!
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BarbaraLee
3 November 2009 at 12:54 PM (15 years ago)It is nice having the space.
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Susie's Homemade
3 November 2009 at 9:34 AM (15 years ago)Awesome tackle!!!
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