Lately, when people come over and see our house, they comment on how “together” it is already. I’ll admit, I agree that we’ve done a pretty good job of making the main living area look nice. I sure love it! It is lived in, but looks good, and the few new-to-us pieces that we’ve added have really topped it off nicely. It looks like we’ve always lived there…
Except that every single room still has boxes stacked waaay up! It is SO far from being done! I know, we’ve lived here for less than a month. I’m not worried about it being perfect right away, or even for quite some time! But I want the boxes taken care of, and its proving to be difficult to get that done! Consider this. Yesterday was a great day of relaxing and visiting. The SINGLE THING I did that wasn’t my usual daily living was moving some clothes around in my closet. And by the end of the day, I was SORE. That stupid abdominal muscle (or whatever is going on in there) is really giving me a run for my money. I do not push it around here, because even the tiniest amount of work I do sets me back. So while I would love to be working on boxes, and I have all the motivation to do it, I can’t 🙁 Merp. Its pretty frustrating, to be honest.
This afternoon, Brady and I decided to try to at least make some progress on our master bedroom. I don’t know about your bedrooms, but ours is always the dumping ground for things that don’t have a home. Its the land of “We’ll put this here so we remember to do something about it later” and then it seems to just snuggle in and overstay its welcome. A few weeks ago, we started tidying it up, and the pile got smaller, which made us feel good. But it stopped there. So today, we gave it a go, and we did pretty good!
A few tubs belonged downstairs, so those got carried down. A handful of things got thrown out. A few boxes got consolidated. Some stuff moved onto the top shelves in our closet. We didn’t do tons, but we did enough to know what we still have to deal with. Here’s the main list.
A dresser. Brady and I NEED a dresser. We have a couple of old beater dressers downstairs, so if we don’t find what we’re ideally looking for soon, we’ll likely drag one up and use it. I have a big tub of bottoms that fit me at all different times – pregnant pants and shorts, non-pregnant pants and shorts, freshly postpartum pants and shorts, sweats and comfies, etc. So. Many. We we have a couple tubs of clothes that need to find a home. That should finish off our closet/clothing.
Bathroom products. I have SO many of those, whether its makeup, hand soaps, lotion, bubble bath, you name it, I have too much of it. What I really need is to be able to dump those boxes out, see how much I have of everything, and organize it. It wouldn’t be the most productive to go one box at a time, because its just all mixed up. Its going to be a huge job.
The white tubs. *sigh* Those stinking white tubs. When we started renting, none of the places we ended up in had a junk drawer, or room for one. So we ended up just chucking all of our random junk/papers/everything ugly into these little while tubs from Dollarama. Now, we have probably eight of them, just full of crap. Those all need to be sorted through, and the stuff needs to be re-homed. Also a huge job.
Last huge job to do is the kids clothes. Again, since we moved from our previous house, all of the kids have sized up at least once. But we’ve been living in disorder, and all of the clothes they’ve grown out of have all just been dumped into tubs, willy nilly. Not order. We have tubs of clothing that the kids have grown out of in the past, and the right sizes need to go into the right tubs. Which means I have probably four big tubs of clothing to fold, pile up in the correct piles, and then try to locate the right tub in the basement somewhere to add them to.
Don’t even get my started on the state of the basement…
SO! While its all a bit overwhelming, it was actually a good day, full of discussion and planning and basically putting it all on the table. Our clothing will be taken care of when we buy a dresser, so that’ll be easy. All of the bathroom products have moved up into our room now, and that will eventually be my job. I’ll likely sort through the kids clothes too, but those tubs still look ok, so they’re still stacked up int he kids rooms. Brady is going to take on the organization of the white tubs, which I HUGELY appreciate! That will be more legwork, whereas my jobs will be more sitting on the floor while I sort.
There is obviously still work to be done, but those are on our radar right now as priorities. We planned out a laundry hamper rack for the basement (just wait until you see it! Eek!) so Brady will likely buy the materials and build that for me soon, and that will make doing laundry SO much nicer!! We also made some plans for a few purchases we’d like to make in the near future for the house. When we ordered our kitchen from Ikea, we got some money back in gift cards, thanks to the kitchen event being on at the right time!! So we are very excited to use that money towards some nice things for our new home. But you’ll find out more about that all soon enough, I hope. I think a quick road trip to Edmonton is going to look a little bit different now, haha!, but we’ll try!
All things in, its been a really nice day 🙂 A morning outing to Costco, followed by some good planning and organization. Solly is having some awake time now, and its just about suppertime. I hope you’re all enjoying your long weekend 🙂