For this step, I had to let my house go for 2 days in order to see where things end up in piles and such. This was really difficult for me, but it had to be done and so I did it. For 2 days, I watched as piles accumulated and my house turned into a complete disaster. Wow. I had no idea how quickly we create piles and how often they land in so many places!
So, without further ado, my documentation:
When you walk into our front door, this is what you see
After walking through the entryway, you end up in our living room
Then, you walk up the stairs to the next level (gotta love split levels!). To the right, is our kitchen:
On the other side of our kitchen, is our playroom/office/supposed to be a formal dining room:
*I cannot believe I am putting these out for the world to see*
Next, you climb the big set of stairs:
This lands you in the upstairs, the first door on the left is the guest/Emma's bathroom:
Keep on going and the next door on the left is our Master Bedroom:
Master Bath and walk-in closet are in this room as well
After this, looking straight ahead in the hallway is our hall linen closet:
To the right of this, is the guest bedroom/craft room:
Next, is the nursery but I could not take pictures in there because Emma was sleeping... suffice it to say that the nursery is clean so did not really need to be pictured anyway...
After this, we head all the way down to the basement:
Looks dangerous doesn't it? It is. It's a disaster. Anyway, moving on... we head down into the basement into our rec room:
To the right of the finished portion of the basement is the unfinished portion with the laundry room and crawl space:
Next, we'll hit the last place in our house that you could possibly store all of your junk... the garage:
That concludes our disgusting and hoard-ish house tour. I can't believe what I saw when I took all of these pictures. In our defense, we are trying to clean out the basement and garage and have had a lot of work being done in these areas, despite the picture evidence to the contrary. Everything is in complete disarray and it's awful! I'm sick to my stomach just looking at all of this! How will I ever get this organized??? ugh...
Baby steps . . . you can't do it all in one day. :-) On a positive note. I am absolutely impressed at how NOT bad it got in two days!! Ours would be a complete disaster in two days without any cleaning or picking up! You guys have a lot of stuff in a small house but I don't think the day to day stuff looks bad at all. Purging will be your most difficult move I think . . . it looks like you do a great job cleaning the day to day stuff in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI know this post is from a long time ago but I just figured out to post on this Blogger thing :)
ReplyDeleteYou can do it, Lia!!! Like what Joanna said - baby steps. "Do the next thing" is a phrase the older church ladies encourage me with and it helps keeps things in persepctive. They remind me that only God gets His To DO list done each day and does NOT expect us to accomplish the same because "He is mindful that we are but dust." I am thankful that is some things He keeps His expectations for us low :) Ha!
One tip that helps me is remembering to do at least one load of laundry right when I wake up. For your smaller family, it might be cleaning the sink or making the bed right when you get up. For some reason, that puts me in the mindset of order instead of feeling overwhelmed by ALL of it ALL at once. Tell yourself that this job of organizing will never, ever ultimately be able to be checked off the list because there will ALWAYS be something to renew or make orderly again. That thought helps me to remember what God remembers about me - I am dust and because of the Fall nothing will be made straight until Glory.
Just do the best with what grace God gives you each morning and thank Him for it!
(now... I am re-reading this comment and preaching it to myself in order to get my butt off this computer and unload the dishwasher:)