As you probably know we are preparing to put our house up for sale. One of the things we have been working on doing is reducing the clutter (and junk) in our storage area. Now I promise you that the rest of my house does not look like this. This is strictly the storage area.
First up- the laundry area. Not too bad. Just some boxes that I packed up from some closets. But the boxes needed to be taken care of.
Afterwards- the boxes are all gone.
Next- my freezer has been growing some boxes and odds and ends and I didn’t know where else to put them.
All taken care of.
A messy storage shelf.
Almost all cleaned off.
A messy corner of stuff that “I will take care of later.”
“Later” has finally come and it is cleaned up.
Ahhh- yes- I saved the worst for last. This is a shelf of stuff I used when I was in college- books and notes and lesson plans, etc. As well as materials I used while I was teaching, teaching materials that have been given to me and things I am using to teach Hailey. This has been bothering me for months.
Much better!
This was definitely my biggest tackle in preparing our house. I didn’t want potential buyers to see all of that messy clutter. I think we (Rich) will take the storage shelves completely down to make the storage area look nice and open. The rest of our house is in pretty good shape and we are almost ready to sell!
Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see what everyone else is tackling this week.
susieshomemade says:
Great tackles!!!
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Faith - That's Just Freaking Lovely says:
Wow, everything looks great now! I always have a list of “things to do later” .. glad I’m not the only one!
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BarbaraLee says:
Those are the rooms we seem to put everything b/c nobody sees them. But they sure can drive us nuts.
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BecauseImTheMommy says:
Good gracious! What great tackles!
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Vicki says:
Dear Cuz,
you are doing incredibly awesome! I’m bemoaning the fact that I have one closet to organize and am sooo procrastinating! Help- if you run out of areas to clean, come on south and we’d love to have yas. By the way, we really enjoy your blog- especially the great comments by Hai,ey- gotta love them. I’m so excited for you being able to move back to family- that is totally awesome. Love yas, Vicki and crew
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MamaGeek says:
Crap truly does multiply faster than rabbits – this was great Melanie!
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Ashley says:
WOW!!! What an awesome job!
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