Laundry Room Makeover - Before

This room is a straight up mess.  It needs help.  Lots of it.

Entering the Yellow cave

I spy a pile... although all the same items there has got to be a better place for these

Game, drinky drinks and Pampered Chef storage.... for now.  Still waiting to finish the hutch for the drinky drinks 

From the far wall looking towards the door.  Yep... that's a disgusting fish tank with no fish in it.

pile o clothes, sewing machine table covered in clothes and a rack that fell 1/2 way out of the wall

sewing table covered in clothes

dumpster diving cabinet with missing door... totes of clothes

bassinet that doubles as a rolling laundry cart just like in the laundry mat!

Piles of "to do" laundry

Random shelf of junk

our old dryer

our old downstairs bathroom sink (waiting for dumpster days to get rid of) and old dryer

Organizing Bug - After

Well... I ended up touching each and every item in this room.  And then went for the complete overhaul and rearranged the room while I was at it!

I now have a diaper station.

I went thru all the toys, put likes with likes and made it nice again!

Put the stuffed animals in the kid rocking chair that we have and made the bed.  Hummm I really should paint this room!

I organized the closet... removed some stuff, found new homes for some stuff, added more and rearranged.  Again... likes with likes.

I even had room to put some of the big toys that usually just sit on the floor in the room in the closet on a shelf!  Yes, that is a tote full of bags.  I think I'll be going thru that once I work on my clothes closet.

This was empty at one point... which is what made me move it to a new location!  Then I added just a FEW things.  I really want to get rid of this piece for a chest of drawers.

This is all GARBAGE!

This is a pile of Pampered Chef stuff from when I was a consultant.  I'm asking other consultants if they want it and if not... either for sale or for Goodwill!

A full tote of things to sell!

These two pieces need to be put into storage.  Only toddlers in our house now!

 Ahhhhh... it feels so much better!  Hopefully I can keep it from becoming the dumping grounds again!

Organizing Bug - Before

I'm not sure how this became the dumping ground... but it is.  It's where everything gets stashed.  Never mind the toys that are in full use every week here...

Wowza.  I happily got a organizing bug the other day and decided to touch each and every item in this room.

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Toys... some that the kids have outgrown 100%

Cds, DVDs and who know what else that I can't even see!

Well at least the toys are put away, right?

Ummm yeah... don't open this closet if you are ever here!

Little Boys Don't Count

So I've decided that the company Ultra Pro doesn't think little boys can count.  I guess it could be grown men who live in their mother's basements.  Yeah... they can't count either.  I'll come back to this...

Being that I'm diving into couponing 100% now I've decided to change up my coupon binder.  It just wasn't working for me to the fullest.  I've decide to revamp it.  And thankfully I found one online that I think will work for me now... but I know it wouldn't have worked for me when I started.

So.... off to Target I went.

I already had the perfect binder that I bought during school supply time.  And I thought I had enough page protectors... time will tell on that... I think I've got a few more somewhere in this house that I can use.  But what I needed yet was those 9 pocket baseball card pages.  (See... I'm getting back to the little boys who can't count!)

It was suggested that I would probably want about 60 pages.  Great.  Found them in the front of the store by a massive row of trading cards after talking to a guy who I'm sure lives in his mom's basement and works at Target.   There they were just waiting for me to snatch them up.  The Ultra Pro 9-Pocket Pages #83275.  30 pages to a pack.  I quickly grabbed two packs and was on my way.

I got home... went straight to my computer and started printing the 40 title pages for each section of my new coupon binder.  Then I stuffed 30 or so of the title pages into the page protectors that I had.  Without stopping to see if I had more page protectors I decided to just add a sheet of the 9 pockets between each title page that I had already.

What do you know... only 25 sheets.  UGH.  That means I'll be short.  I counted.  And counted them again for good measure.  I searched around me to make sure they didn't slip of the table that I was working on.  Nothing.  There were suppose to be 30 sheets in each pack.

Since I had a second pack I ripped it open to see if it had 30.  Not so much.  So apparently little boys only care to organize... not count.

I'll have to go and buy a 3rd pack... which really ticks me off since now I'll have to wait to totally organize my binder since I'm short 10 pages.  And I'll have to buy another pack that says it has 30 pages in it but will only have 25.  And, since it's Target I'll spend more money cuz who can just go into Target and get what they need and walk out?

Oh How I Wish...

April - Master Bedroom

So this past April we had to work on our Master Bedroom for Org Junkies round up.



Thank god. Here are the Before: I can't believe it was this bad... who added so many clothes to these photos?






I'll be taking photos of the the after in just a few hours - I forgot! And I'm at work right now!

March Round Up

Holy cow... March just swooped on past me. This month we were suppose to work on organizing our dining room through Org Junkie's Monthly Round-Up.

Here's before:
And here's after:

I added a white board, calendar/bulletin board and mail/key rack to attempt to control all of our paper/mail/appointments and notes.

For April we're suppose to work on our Master Bedroom. Lord knows ours needs some help!

I'm in the top 12!

Remember when I had the post about organizing my kitchen drawers and food storage containers? Well I am in the top 12! Check out Laura over at "I'm an Organizing Junkie". She's listed all of the top 12 contestants.

If you need some inspiration... check out the other 11 contestants posts and mine! If you want to join, this month we are suppose to organize our dining room... which we don't have so I'm continuing on the kitchen cupboards hopefully.

Wooot wooo! I'm in the top 12!

Monty's Gone Wild...

Sorry, I had to!

The Monty Crew showed up on our doorstep on Friday night... with four sleepy kids and two adults who shoulda had a drink. Jerome and I had small conversations with each adult at one point... then poof they were gone... into rooms to attempt to get children asleep. We had Delaney under control in the living room.

Saturday I awoke to the sound of some little footsteps or something. I noticed that the door to downstairs was opened... there was Andy and Miles... hangin out. I joined them for a bit... then came Trisha and Delaney and Dawson. Then Jerome. The only one missing... Mads.

I went upstairs to cook breakfast - pancakes and sausage links. We all ate. Trisha was wanting to go to Target and the Dollar Tree... she had mentioned wanting to get bins for the shelf that Andy just built.... got me thinking of Storables. We made our way over there... ohhhhh I love this store... I need to get there more often!

We found these bins and tossed one in her cart. She wanted to get the Crew's approval before buying all the ones that she needed. We headed to Target and picked up some groceries and then off to Dollar Tree. All that in two hours. Whew!

When we returned we had pizza for lunch. The guys, Jerome and Andy left for Burnsville to go to a wood working shop... Me thinks Jerome will be going back there some day!

When they got home we hung out for a bit and then started on dinner. We grilled out - brats, burgers, and hot dogs. Baked beans, carrots and ranch dip too. It was delish.

The Crew stayed until Sunday morning. There was a brief episode when the eggs wouldn't cook on the burner for me... which then ended with me running to Walmart for more eggs. The Crew packed up and took off back home.

I'm surprised at how well Pork Chop handled all the kids being in his space. And Dawson took such a liking to him... even feeding him some Cheetos and sticking his tiny fingers in his mouth and pulling his cheeks. Such a good puppy. He didn't eat much though... that is until life was back to normal in our house. He's pack to nipping at me and doing naughty naughty naughty things with his Multipet Terry Loofa toy.