What a Mess

It is amazing how much of a mess you make when you really try to clean something up.

As a result of the water coming in the house last week, a great deal of our random items stored in the unfinished area of our basement were displaced. Once they were out of storage and all over our basement, Jim and I decided we should take the opportunity to really clean out our junk as we put it back into storage. The result: as we cleaned up our water-damage mess, an even bigger mess was created in an effort to go through and eliminate junk.

Jim and I spent all day Saturday rifiling through all the stuff that had collected in our basement since we'd moved to this house 2 years ago. It was a big project, but we worked together and got it done. It was actually pretty fun . . . going through stuff together, coming across random things we've missed or didn't know we had. Organizing our storage room was also accomplished as we cleaned . . . so now that storage area feels so much better and is easier to use. Instead of a dumping ground for anything that didn't land elsewhere in the house, our storage room is lined with shevles and acutally stores things nicely.

We were monitarily motivated, I'll admit . . . our neighborhood is having a garage sale in 2 weeks. What a perfect time to clean out our junk, put in in our street, and invite everyone to come weeding through it (piece by piece by piece). Hopefully we can make a little money out of this giant project we've created.

I call it our 'giant project' because, see . . . the project is not done. Sure, the storage area looks great . . . but more stuff got displaced as that room was cleaned out.

Look . . . fall decor exploded all over the dining room. Something I'll spread out around the house over the course of this week.

And all the garage sale items landed in Jim's parking spot in our garage.

All of that stuff needs to be sorted out and price-tagged. We decided to tag stuff instead of haggling all morning -- which, of course we'll do anyway -- prices are just a starting point, I guess. Anyway, that alone is another project we'll do this weekend.

All of this work leading up to the glorious morning of October 10th when Northampon hosts it's Fall Garage Sale. Come one, come all . . . tell your friends! We are the 3rd house on the right . . . you'll know us by the amount of junk-ola in the yard and the pink balloons on the mailbox.

And after that, I hope the mess really is cleaned up.