Organizational Intervention.......

Over the past week I have started a very time consuming and daunting process. I have started to organize the house. Now its not that I am an "unorganized" person ...... a good friend of mine told me that ....... "You're not unorganized, you just have a lot of stuff"... and it's true.....there is an underlying illness here...I love stuff...not just any old stuff...but, beautiful things, cut glass, china, stemware....and I collect it...(again, remember that part of the 12 step program is admitting you have a problem.....Boy, I would be a show stopper in one of those meetings!) It started Friday morning when I went into the laundry room and just could not stand the clutter that surrounded me. I reorganized the shelves in the pantry (I refuse to go as far as FOB would like, and inventory the can goods.....NO!) made room for small appliances on the upper shelves and threw out things with long past "use by" dates and a miracle occurred.....extra space......it was bliss! So onto the shelving unit, consolidate, stack properly.....and another small miracle, more room! I am on a roll.....reorganize the cabinets above the washer and dryer.....unbelievable.....more available space!!!! (This next statement is for my dear friends who estate sale with me......Ya'll know what more space means to me.....more china and glassware......yeah!!!!) I even used the "label maker" and things are labeled.....(on a not so nice note, when I asked Kadie for her label maker.....there was an ugly comment that went something like....this is just wrong, Mom and a label maker, what's wrong with this pic....) again another unprovoked attack! Mopped the floor, dusted and a metamorphosis had taken place.....you can now do a 180 in the laundry room and not touch anything.....PTL, alleluia.....its the Miracle on Silverleaf.......joy! joy! joy!..... laundry room complete and on to the next area.....which just so happens to be ..... under the kitchen sink. You might ask yourself, why with so many other areas needing immediate attention, why "under the sink"???? Well....... because when I pulled the plug on the dishwater Friday night, water came pouring out from the cabinet all over the area rug and my new Christmas slippers (not very happy) ... thank goodness......Mark the Plumber was already home from work..... and discovered that the pipe was loose, he fixed it (my hero).....and to my complete surprise, it presented yet another area to be "organized"! So early Saturday morning off to Home Depot we go to replace the pipes under the sink....just because they were gross from more than 30 years of use and I wanted a new fresh look under there....(it goes with the reorganized Zen feel that we have goin' on) and I found the "Home Organization" aisle.....again BLISS! Purchase, purchase, purchase and yet another zone complete....this is just frickin' unbelievable! It's like some kind of high.....I LOVE IT! So it gets me thinking ....... I have 3, yes count them 3......cabinets devoted solely to spices....yes I do love to cook, but I don't even think Bobby Flay devotes that much space to his spices ..... so there it is, ANOTHER opportunity! Off to the Container Store {I will cover the topic of the Container Store in another blog, because that place is just amazing!!}...... OMGosh......I have available cabinet space in the kitchen.....this phenomenon has not happened since we purchased the house in 1990! Where else can I go.....junk drawers......yes, there are 3 of them!!


So, this morning I am off, yet again, to the kitchen.....projects need to be completed! I will have the reorganization complete.....finish painting the cabinets and house looking very tidy before this wedding.....I have a list of "honey do's" that could compile a small novel......FOB's only comment was to look at David and say.....see what you have done to me???