Domestic toil! [*trumpet fanfare*]

[misterx]

I just spent over an hour organizing fastners (screws, bolts, nails, etc). Shouldn't I get a merit badge or something? No no, the satisfaction is enough.

Then spent the following two point something hrs cleaning out and organizing the laundry/tool/utility room. Surely it couldn't have been that bad, you say. OOOhhhh yes it could, I say. Three big black trash bags for the bin, and a huge pile of stuff to be put in the basement later, I am done. You see, it has to work as a laundry room. It has to work as a broom/vacuum closet. It has to hold my tool boxes and power tools and household hardware, such that I can get to it. It has to store mucho overflow kitchen whatnots and craft supplies and old stero bling, such that it doesn't crash upon my head whilst accessing aforementioned tools, or said fastners, or kitchen widgets. And it has to do this in 5 feet by 8 feet. And it was on the verge of becoming it's own al-Queda cell if I didn't do something about it.

Hot *damn* this is exciting stuff. Oh yeah, baby... you know you want more.

Comments

[melanie.livejournal.com]

i *thought* i glimpsed a coffee cup in there as i was going to bed.

[lilith17.livejournal.com]

We did the same thing to that closet in the downstairs hallway. It had gotten bad enough that things fell out everytime you opened the door and I had warned Maya against trying to do so. We put up pegboard. And a 32-drawer organizer, mounted to the wall. I sat in the dining room floor, sorting nails from screws and other small things. It was great. :)

Luckily, that closet doesn't hold anything except tools and other appropriate household stuff, like extension cords. There's a very high shelf at the back where we can safely store chemical stuff, too, like spray-on wallpaper remover and floor glue solvent. I want a garage sooooooooo bad!!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. :-\