Tackle-It-Tuesday

Last week, I finished the office and that primarily consisted of organizing and removing everything that was in there that had no business being there.   The office is consistently my dumping ground.   Then this week, I moved onto the former TV room.   It was a disaster!   I had my yard sale prep stuff in there and then after the sale, it became our secondary dumping ground after the office was full.   Of course, I didn’t bother taking a RECENT photo of that disaster but here are some older pre-yard sale pics:

And that’s only half of the pictures from the yard sale.   This stuff was all over everywhere.   It was about 5 feet high and everywhere!!!   After we got rid of all the stuff, I still had the remants and the keepers and of course 2 months of dumping ground & cleaning out the office stuff in there.

We’ve decided to turn it into the playroom/homeschool room.   We have moved most of Lil’ Bits toys downstairs and shortly we will be moving our couch downstairs so the supervising moms have a place to sit.   We have another couch that will be taking it’s place.   Now, we have a HUGE beautiful room for lots of kids to be able to play:

I had decided to keep all my old plastic drawers that I was going to sell at the yard sale and I’m really glad I did.  There is a TON of room for the Christmas & Birthday toys that are coming.   Of course, there was toy purging and saving (for the next one(s) as I was doing it).   I was also super excited to find the Dr. Seuss Letter mural on clearance at Borders for $5.99.   She is really getting into figuring them out and LOVES using that with her Magnetic Letters.

Of course, this means in the next few weeks (or months, more likely), you will be seeing a post on the clean up of what will eventually be Lil’ Bit’s bedroom.   Now IT is the official dumping ground.   And it’s full.    Well, not entirely, but almost.

So what have you tackled this week?   Join the fun at 5 Minutes for Mom.   This post is also linked to Blitz-It Fridays at Organized Everyday.

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Yes, I actually had to conquer Mt. Laundry this weekend.   I have been super busy helping Bones get his new business off the ground.   Between our personal emergency last week and moving his office into the home our routine has been all screwed up and while I DID laundry.  It was NOT put away.

BEFORE:

It was 5 loads of front loader which is the equivalent of 10-15 loads in a traditional washer. It took about an hour to put it all away.

So that’s my big tackle this week.   Get more support for YOUR hard work at 5 Minutes for Mom.

This post is also linked to Blitz-It Friday at Organized Everyday.

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I’ve always wanted to participate in a Tackle-It Tuesday but never set out to blog any of my cleaning. Most of my cleaning consists of shuffling stuff around. This project was a doozy & I had to share because I’m soooooo excited that we are FINALLY finished.

In the winter of 2006/2007, we (meaning my husband and brother-in-law) ripped down a dilapitated & unusable garage on our property.

Here are pics of the deconstruction process:

We were going to start a rebuild summer of 2007. Then we discovered Dave Ramsey and put it on hold to pay off all our debt. It was further put on hold by my becoming pregnant that spring, knowing that cash flow from yours truely would cease to exist. It still hasn’t been built, but until last Sunday, all the rubble was still there. Two. YEARS. Later. Yeah.

Here is all the rubble at the beginning of last summer:

"Little" Pieces

Whole Pieces + Lumber

Last fall, I put an ad on Freecycle for the blocks and amazingly enough, someone spent over a month hauling all the whole ones away (see left), a few at a time, in the trunk of an Escort. We still had this huge pile of small pieces (see right) to get rid off, plus all the wood.

A good friend had use of a trailer for the day a few weeks ago and he & DH took 2 loads of big block pieces to the cement guys pit in exchange for dinner and some gas money. Since the annual junk pick up started Monday, we hauled butt to finish cleaning it up. We filled a large garbage tote, a small (kitchen-sized) garbage can, plus 6 five-gallon buckets with small rubble and took 2 trips to dump it at a friends property about 30 minutes away. We hauled the third and final load out there Sunday and put the nasty lumber, the door and pieces of the car door out for trash day.

a rubble pile is conspicuously absent!

look! no bricks or rubble!!

The rest of the boards have been stacked neatly against the wall to build my raised garden. Now if we can just get rid of my in-laws boat!

the junk day pile

For more Tackle-it Tuesday goodness, visit 5 Minutes for Mom, who, incidentally also has a sister site called 5 Minutes for Books where yours truly won the Mothers Day Giveaway Grand Prize of, like 16 books! There’s still time to enter to win other Mothers Day goodies on 5M4M, so go check them out! Pretty good odds on some WAY cool stuff.

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