Spring Cleaning

I spent the evening cleaning up the laundry room last night - it is almost completed. It is always such a mess because it is a dumping ground for stuff that has no other place.

I am doing all of my cleaning and arranging without shopping for anything. I am using just what we already have at the house.

I needed to reduce the amount of stuff we have in the laundry room and keep only the essentials. I moved one of the cabinets downstairs into the spare room. It will keep all of the sheets that we use. I moved the towels that were on that cabinet downstairs. That is what they are for anyway - they are the downstairs bathroom towels. I keep all of the upstairs towels in the cabinet in the upstairs bathroom. That freed up about 3 feet of floor room. I am going to move the boot mat into the garage so that will give us another 3 feet of floor room.

I am thinking about clearing out the sheets that are still upstairs and moving them all downstairs. That would free up the bottom of the cabinet in the laundry room. It has one of those laundry shoot type doors. If I actually used it as a laundry basket that would give me another couple of feet of floor room. I just thought of that as I was typing. I think it is a good idea and that I should do it. That would mean that the entire area between the toilet and the sink is free and clear. Wow!

I had to clean out the coat closet so I could put the steamer and the vacuum in there. I did not want them in the laundry room anymore (well, I never did but that is where they fit). Now the closet is clean and the laundry room is almost done. I will feel great when it is all done.

Then I need to get Joelynn's office cleaned up and then Braxton's room. I am going to reduce the amount of toys that Braxton has at our house. I am going to send some home with him or donate them. Probably both. I will probably put some in the storage area - the ones that I want to keep but that he has outgrown.

I also would love to get the server and the printer out of his room and into the office. I just need to make a plan to make that happen and find the room in the office. It should fit in there fine since I arranged the furniture in there. I can put the server across from the desk along the wall and then put the printer on the little table in there. That would make it convenient for Joelynn and add a lot of space in Braxton's room. A win-win.

I also need to get the roomba going in the basement. We have one for down there, too. I love the one upstairs. It will make me keep the basement cleaner and make sure that Braxton keeps his toys put away when he is done playing with them.

Boy - I have a lot of stuff I am working on. I can't want to get started. Maybe that is a little lie but it does have some truth. I will be super happy when I get it all done. It seems like I never get it done before it has to be re-done in other rooms. It is a never ending battle.