Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

Ok, I don’t have great photo visual aids like Kate does, but after literally MONTHS and MONTHS of stacking random crap in my basement and putting off actually dealing with it and putting it away the basement had become so out of control that I could barely get in and out of it to do the laundry (on the rare occasions that I actually bothered to try to do some laundry)! And after a particularly personally pathetic day yesterday, today, for whatever reason, I woke up with resolve to be productive. I spent almost ALL day in my basement. I did several loads of laundry and emptied four laundry baskets full of stuff! I also cleared all the random stuff from the piles on the floor, put away all the Halloween costumes, Easter baskets, and winter sweaters, unpacked from our travels at Christmastime, collected a garbage bag full of trash and filled 8 bags for the Goodwill! I sorted all of my greeting cards (now you may actually receive one!) and I found our immunization sheets! There is still a lot to do down there, but I did make a huge dent in the mess. I really should’ve had the forethought to take before and after pictures–they would have been very dramatic, but I guess when I started working on it, I didn’t really think I’d do so much! I know the basement is probably the least important room in the house, but I cannot even express how much lighter I feel now that it is under control!