More Space for a Mess

One thing that amazes me is how much more space there is to create a mess now that I have a house.

Our basement is definately a mess; when we moved in, all the boxes just got dumped down there haphazardly by myself and my uncles. The biggest problem was keeping them from blocking all the doors. Our haphazard way of unpacking hasn’t helped clean that up any. Add to that the lack of actual unpacking going on with our wedding plans in full swing and it is not a pretty picture.

The kitchen is impossible to keep clean. The best intentions last about 2 hours on average, and are becoming fewer and farther between. Our biggest problem is that we need to reorganize where we keep things so that things are easier to get at and so that everything has a place (even if it is in the pantry). We are still going with where things went when we had two kitchen boxes unpacked, and now there are a dozen or so unpacked. On a bright note, we finally after 3 months found the cat’s food and water bowls. She was very happy; she didn’t like the temporary ones that she was stuck with.

The bathroom hasn’t been too bad; the worst is dirty running clothes on the floor that usually get picked up the next morning and thrown in the hamper after they have had a chance to dry. The living room, though, might as well not count as open space. Between a sewing table and a few hundred unassembled boxes (for our wedding favors), there’s not much room left. The cat is happy I put a cat tree up for in front of the picture window, at least.

The bedroom is just a bit too small for the bureaus and the bed, but we manage there all right. The office, on the other hand, is in really rough shape. My recycled paper pile gets cleaned out regularly, but my “to shred” pile needs some serious attention, and the garbage can is buried behind a bunch of boxes. At least I do not generate much actual garbage in the office. We had it clean when we took out the temporary desks and put the permanent one in place, but things never got organized and it’s coming back to bite me now.

So, just because you have a house does not mean that you have more room to organize things and keep things tidy. It just means that you have more room to make a mess.