Today the husband and I dove in to our utility/storage room in an attempt to get it organized. During this process, I had a number of realizations. Here they are, in no particular order:
1. We are empty box hoarders. I kid you not, we threw out at least 25 empty boxes, all different sizes. Completely ridiculous!
2. Although Scott and I get a lot accomplished, we pretty much drive each other batty in the process. At the end of the day, shiznit gets taken care of. That's what matters.
3. We have enough paint to repaint our whole house several times. Lawdy! Why do we need so much paint?!
4. It is possible to tackle big jobs with a 2 year old running about. You may get asked 6793 times, "What are you doing, Mommy?" but you can still push through.
5. I knew our lives were put on hold when Landon got sick, but today I realized just how much stuff got neglected.
6. It feels incredibly good to purge and get rid of stuff!!! Okay, I already knew that.
7. A few years ago, I would have been embarrassed to share about the hot mess that is our utility/storage room. Today, I accept and embrace it as a part of ME! Sometimes I'm a mess. Whatevs! Other times I'm super together and organized. Score!
We still have some more work to do in there but today was a great start. I would post some before and after photos, however, I didn't take a before photo. Let's be honest, nobody wants to see all that madness anyway!
Please tell me we aren't the only ones with an out of control room like this!
Girl....if you would have seen my awesome box collection this summer you would have been impressed....25 boxes is NUTHIN close to what I recycled this summer! My husband said I got rid of enough "fire starter" to light the entire neighborhood ablaze. :)
ReplyDeleteErin - Thank you for making me feel more normal about our box hoard! I always think, "OH, this will come in handy for wrapping presents at Christmas!" or when we purchase something new it's "We better keep the box in case something goes wrong and we need to return it." Silly!
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