Toys strewn about!!!! All the time!!!! Pieces scattered everywhere!!! I think the kids favorite thing to do in the toy room is dump all the toys out of the big box and play with the box!! I was like I HAVE HAD IT! yes, there was madness in my eyes. I grabbed some trash bags and showed no mercy. GOOD-BYE BROKEN TOYS! GOOD-BYE DIRTY TOYS! GOOD-BYE OLD TOYS! GOOD-BYE TOYS MY KIDS FORGOT THEY HAD! (Have I learned NOTHING from "Toy Story"?!) And yet no guilt my friends. In fact I think I may have cackled. I'm a good cackler.
It was a long time coming. When the kids clean they just shove stuff wherever. It took me HOURS to organize. But as of RIGHT NOW, everything has its place in the toy room. Legos: one big happy family. Barbies: finally found that long lost sister (and Ken DOES have clothes!) Cars: search NO MO they are together at last. Puzzles: oooh whole pretty pictures. Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head: welcome to your faces! I have 1 garbage bag full of trash, and 2.5 garbage bags with toys to be recycled. I did have a little talk with the kids about how they have too many toys and we need to give some to kids who need them and they were pretty agreeable (although I only had them glance at the bags we're giving to D.I. ...what they don't know can't hurt em!)
So everything was perfect. And then the kids started playing in there and I was like, SIGH here we go, better hurry and take pictures! So, WHA-LA!
These guys promise they're going to put things back in the right place and be good cleaners from now on. And look at those faces, they don't lie, RIGHT?
As if they're the clutterers, I now have 2 kitchen drawers, 1 bathroom drawer, my closet (AH!), under my bed, and my van to go...
2 comments:
Im feeling the same way! How do we aquire so much junk!? Good job with the toy room!
This was good practice, because I am afraid my daughter, that you have years and years ahead of you to declutter. I am still doing it! Good job though, that rooms looks awesome!
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