A few days ago we did what most of you have been doing recently...began the process of taking all the Christmas decorations down until next year. We store our stuff precariously above the van in our garage--using some plywood across the rafters, we're able to make a decent amount of storage for the ever growing collection of STUFF. Unfortunately, once it's up there, it's kind of a pain to get back to, and we avoid it for a good 10-11 months if possible. Therein lies the problem. You take all the ornaments off the tree; you gather the garland and stockings, bows and village pieces; you carefully store them in boxes and totes (neatly labeled if you're that sort of person). Everything is neatly tucked away. Or so you think...Here is what we have found since putting all our boxes and totes in our garage rafters:
Christmas CD's (Ted says that they don't count--although I think he wanted them in the Christmas boxes, and they're obviously not):
One placemat...the other five are in a box. No, the milk is not leftover from Christmas Eve.
One Santa hat. Again, there are three others in a box
Surely this has happened to you, too.
On a brighter note, while we were cleaning stuff out, we decided to work in the kids' playroom, which also serves as a guest room, to make it a little more user friendly. One of the pitfalls of moving frequently, is that when we're unpacking boxes we oftentimes just put things into places without ever really making good places for the things. We've been here over a year, and finally came to the realization that we weren't using the space we had in there very well--specifically the closet. So, with a little shelf work here, and a little condensing there we were able to neatly store all kinds of my stuff as well as the kids' toys, and have made the room so much nicer. Nice enough that I finally got around to making curtains for it--using some of the fabric that I found stuffed in the closet. Yahoo!
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