Click here if you don't. Yeah. Didn't work. He did put his dirty clothes in the hamper. Just only the ones in the living room and even then he still left a sock under the couch, two shirts under his uniforms in the corner, and a sock under the dining table. He also didn't pick up the trash in the living room at all.
Sooo, I'm back to the drawing board (almost literally). I've been looking around on Pinterest and I've gotten some ideas on what to do. One pin that I saw that really caught my eye was a little station kind of thing. It was a dry erase board, calendar, mail holder, and French memo board. I might tweak it around to fit my needs like turning the regular calendar into a dry erase calendar (probably get four weekly dry erase calendars so I can have the full month and the weekly menu). I definitely want to keep the French memo board in there, but change the mail holder to a key holder so that way we don't have to keep looking around for them. There's a perfect place for it in the hallway. It'll either be there or the one full wall in the dining room.
While at the idea of having an organized station, I've been trying to think of ways to get this place organized. Believe it or not, we don't really have all that many shelves in this place. There's the book shelf by the TV (about a foot and a half wide and five feet tall), the small shelf in the coat closet, some extremely deep shelves in the bedroom cabinets that are about ten inches tall but capable to allow me to curl up in a ball and squeeze in (and the shelves don't move), and the last shelf is in the closet in the bed room. That's it. Even our storage room doesn't have shelves (even though it should). Oh, and of course there's the kitchen cabinets which are horribly placed, too narrow, and the spacing between the shelves are too short (to get the blender in without it on the stand, I had to twist and move it around and eventually put it on it's side and threw it in out of frustration).
I have this goal all set up. Every month, I'm going to focus on organizing a room. Since May is already half over, I'm just going to take the rest of this month to focus on cleaning the house. I'll even go as far to post pictures up of this still messy house. I already cleaned the bathroom yesterday, but I had to do some unexpected/kind-of-expected cleaning. I've been telling my husband that the bathroom has been stinking but he says either "It's a bathroom. You have to expect it to stink." or "I don't smell it." Yesterday, while I was cleaning the bathroom, I opened up the cabinet under the sink and the smell just "hit me like an elephant falling from an airplane while I run into a brick wall". What was causing the smell was a leaking pipe and some carpeting that my husband had put under the sink. The carpeting was catching all of the water and wasn't dry so it became moldy/mildew-y. My solution was to tie a plastic bag around the pipes to keep it from dripping onto the wood and spread baking soda all on the wood. It's already smelling better, not great, but better.
Anyways, here's my organizing plan:
May- Clean house to sparkling standards
June- Organizing living room. Make it not embarrassing!
(The kind-of-messy-but-could-be-worse living room. There's a
bookshelf on the other side of the TV.)
July- Organizing storage room. It looks like a tornado whipped through. UNACCEPTABLE!
(It already looks as if a tornado went through it. The reasoning behind the bottles is that we don't throw them away but instead collect them up and take them to the recycling center for a cash refund.)
(I might organize this closet with the storage room. I'm not too sure
when I'll do this for sure though.)
(You can see that baking soda under the sink and of course the stuff that was under the sink.)
(Yes. That is a Coca Cola machine in our dining room. My husband saw it at work and brought it home. Why? To keep his beer cold. Is it used now? Nope. Just taking up quite a bit of space.)
(The dishes are my fault. I won't blame my hubby for this one. My get up and go got up and went after I did the laundry. You can get a better look at that Coke machine though.)
(You can see my cute little dry erase board here!)
November- Organizing bedroom. You sleep here not shovel here!
(Half of the closet. There's sliding doors.)
(I did the laundry today. That's why there's no sheets and pillows everywhere...and a laundry bag.)
(This is the cabinet I was talking about being able to curl up in. There's three shelves but you can't tell past the suitcase.)
Whether you believe it or not, there is a reason for that order. The living room is the most used and the first thing people see when they walk it. That's where the "embarrassing" part comes in. Once the living room is finished, odds are that there will be little to no room in the storage room for anything else making it look like a tornado stopped by and had a field day. To get anything else done, that room would have to be organized. The bathroom is a room that you (or at least I) see at least three times a day (and I'm including when I get ready to go somewhere and before I go to bed to take off makeup, take out contacts, shower, what ever). The dining room would probably be the third thing that you see but we use it for a lot of things. Currently, there's a finished puzzle on the table. The kitchen is the second thing you see when you walk in and it's also used for cooking. I can be patient enough with this kitchen to let other rooms take priority. Last, the bedroom. I'm not a big fan of letting people see this room because it's where I sleep. I feel creeped out when people know what the room I sleep in looks like at that moment. (I guess you can say I'm paranoid that someone has a photographic memory and during the night when I'm sleeping they will come in, avoid any obstacles, and stare at me. Not do anything else. Just stare at me.)
Now you've seen my lovely pig sty of a house. Here's the hallway and where I'm going to put my organizer wall thing. Like I said, I'll either put it here or the wall in the dining room. (More than likely here because it's right outside our bedroom door so we'll see it a lot.)
I'll go on ahead and wrap this post up. I'll make a post for each thing that I do on the lines of organizing everything. I will go on and say though that one thing that I am working on is actually in the bedroom. I'm starting to gather up the used toilet paper rolls and folding up my underwear and putting them inside the roll. That way, it saves up some room in my drawers and I can easily see which pair to choose from. I'll post a picture when I'm done gathering them up and the before and after picture.
Have a great day!
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