Triple the Space
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:58AM It's been a while since I last cleaned my place of rest, my bedroom. I would say it's has been at least a good 5 to 6 months since I've even attempted to clean it. There were about 3 piles of clothes that were close to 5 feet high in my room, the first pile was in front of the mirror, the second pile was at the foot of my bed (mattress on the floor), and another pile on my desk.
I don't have a closet in my room so it's hard to put things, but I do have this bookshelf type thing from Ikea that I have where I put my clothes, or where I used to put my clothes. I can't put it outside in the closet under the stairs either because when my dad or brother cooks fish, the whole place smells horrible!
The reason I actually started to clean last night was because I was looking for the needle to pump the volleyball with. I couldn't find it and in trying to find it, I kind of emptied out the shelves and decided to just dust it off and clean it. I had to rock a robbers bandana too keep the dust from getting to me, but it didn't work. Seems like whenever I do clean my room I get sick the next day and end up spending a roll of toilet paper to blow my nose. Right now my nose is bright red from all the times I've blown it ...
It's good to clean your room because then you end up finding things that you thought you'd lost! I found my backscratcher that I've been looking for for the past 6 months, I thought my brother took it home with him to NJ. Now I don't have to use long pencils or screwdrivers to scratch my back anymore! I found 3 bags of socks that I so desperately needed for the past few days since my supply was running low. I found clothes that I forgot about and I also found a pair of sneakers that I was looking for under a pile of papers. I did find other things too ... a few chicken bones that my dad had given to Shadow as a snack, some doggie treats, a half eaten chicken nugget that Shadow put in-between the pile of clothes at the foot of my bed to hide it.
So onto my desk and what's been under it. There are a few empty shoe boxes that I was using as a foot stool and a few hundred envelopes from the mail that I would receive, be it garbage or mail I need to pay attention too, I wasn't sure until I had to go through it one by one later that night. After segregating my mail, I found that there were a few bills that I hadn't paid in ... well those 6 months that I hadn't cleaned my room.
It took me a good 3 or 4 hours to clean my room. While doing so, I had to unload some of the things that I've bought throughout the months and sometimes even years to whomever wanted to take them! I'd constantly go to the living room asking the kids if they wanted "this" or "that" and usually they didn't want to take my "garbage." There was a time when they were younger and everything that I gave them was treated as gold. No matter how useless it was, they loved it and kept it in their room so their little treasure of MoMon's garbage could start. It went from stickers, to empty McDonald's cups, boxes, high lighters, computer graphics cards, and the list goes on, but they kept it. Those were the good ol' days ... now I had to try and give things to my dad and well he took some of them!
Around 1am I was close to being finished and noticed that I had used 4 medium sized plastic bags to throw away all the garbage that had accumulated! It's not as bad as you're probably picturing it, the garbage was mostly under my desk with the piles of paper and envelopes, empty shoe boxes, containers, even empty Wendy's nugget boxes.
So now I have so much more room, so much more room to do activities! Hey maybe I'll build a bunk bed while singing "This is How We Do It!" Prior to cleaning up, I could barely move my compute chair a few inches, and last night as I sat in it with my room being clean, I was surprised when I was able to move a few feet in all directions!
Now my place of sleep is once again clean ... but the only question is how long it will stay that way. I'm not done yet, and still need to fix my clothes, but I'm wondering if it will be a repeat of how it's been, where I'll clean most of my room and leave part of it for the next day, only to find that I never do it, and the room explodes into itself again.
Right now, it's a clean room, but as the days go on I know that the pressure of the clothes being piled up will caught it to be the same as it was the other day. So why do I even clean it when I know it's going to be back to normal in a few days or less!? I should just learn my lesson and leave my room alone with whatever mess there is.
Should have taken before and after pics ... next time I will, and believe me, there will be a next time!
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Reader Comments (5)
Yuck!
Hey!!! How's it going Jenn :) why the yuck, it's clean now HAhA
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geebus mon!... im actually putting away 2 bags of clean laundry right now... and im planning on cleaning my room tonight if i don't go out... it's soooo messy & crowded >=/
LOL dude you needed to put some pics up!! Well, clean rooms are always better, although I can say that I never clean my room as often as I'd like. Anyway, if you want to keep your room messy, you can always think of it as a security measure to prevent outsiders from going into your room an taking something =\
Next time my room gets all crazy I'm going to take pics lol I wish I had because that was the worst it has gotten!
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