My husband and I are both pack rats by nature. We try to purge, really we do. But just as we kick some crap stuff to the curb, it seems like more crap stuff creeps in through the back door.
Our general living space is not over-come with clutter. Those spaces are actually (relatively) easy to keep clean because everything has a place to call its own. I don’t think I’d be able to have people in my home if I had clutter all over – I’d be too embarrassed.
In fact, the only reason I’m going to willingly put photos of my clutter here for everyone to see is so that I can have some motivation to post the after shots.
Here’s my sewing area, about an hour after I started working on it:
It’s like a black hole, that desk. I swear – if I had set that suitcase anywhere else it would have been back in the garage rafters the day we got back.
So, tell me: Do you have a black hole of clutter somewhere in your home? Don’t worry, I won’t hate you if you say NO! However, it is brutally honest Monday, you know.
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12 replies on “Clutter Begets Clutter”
I do have a black hole, well 2 actually. My desk and my sewing/scrapbooking table. They are piled full of crap usually. Papers, random pictures, cameras, notebooks, books, pop can or 2, pens, pencils, stickers, mail, paints, ribbon, thread, stamps….the desks are next to each other and stuff spews from one to the other. Since I am getting a laptop I am currently trying to organize and contain the clutter so I have a little more space to work! I feel so much better, thanks for letting me get that out! LOL!
No messes in my house, my rule is: If you haven’t touched it in a year — get rid of it. Works like a charm! Storage space is at a premium so why waste space storing something you never use.
my bedroom tends to be the black hole of my house. things get moved there to get them out of the way, and then they just accumulate. i don’t ever go in there unless i am going to sleep so it doesn’t bother me most of the time. well it does bother me, but i can just walk out of the room and not have to look at it. one thing that i have all over my house is receipts. with the way our job works we have to expense stuff so we save all of our receipts. i rarely spend money on things that have to be expensed so my receipts and just go in the trash. my husband, on the other hand, has piles of receipts everywhere. and when i say everywhere i am not kidding. his dresser, the entryway table, the dining room table. the computer desk, his nightstand. and then there are the ones scattered on the floor on his side of the bed. he claims to know which ones he needs and where they are so i hesitate to move them, but it drives me absolutely insane! i can’t wait to get back to america where i will be able to once again toss any receipt i find!
My black hole is our “wine closet”. It’s called a wine closet because before I became pregnant and baby was born, collecting some pretty decent wine was a fun hobby for us. We converted a hall closet into a little wine area complete with several wine racks. We no longer have the money, time or energy to collect much wine these days, so the poor wine closet has become a catchall for anything and everything. RIP wine closet.
Um, yes, definitely. I hate visible clutter though, so it’s my closets that are a disaster. There’s one particularly bad one. It’s a risk to even open the door. Good luck with the clutter reduction project.
I totally have a black hole. And it is called My House.
Our “living room” has long been our wedding gifts/baby shower storage unit. What’s that? You think we’ve been married too long to have wedding gifts piled up? You’re right.
We FINALLY have cleaned it now though, I must say. Thank Goodness!
My black hole is our laundry room/kid’s art space right off the kitchen. My kids no longer do art projects in there because there is so. much. clutter you can’t even see the floor. Most days there is not even a clear path to the washing machine. You’d never know it by looking at the rest of my house. Out of sight, out of mind. Although it’s always lurking on the bottom of my to-do list.
Maybe when I see your after picture I’ll be motivated to clean in out. Maybe.
Don’t feel bad– my black hole is the entire house.
I’d post pictures, but I wouldn’t want to scare people.
Funny you should ask…
Our black hole, up until last weekend, was our dining room table. BUT! We cleaned it up finally and I told Hubby that we were NOT going to cover it in scrapbooking stuff and remote control stuff any more. It’s been a week. I’ve had to remind Hubby at least twice of the new rule. We’ll see how long it lasts.
There’s also a dark cave. It’s called the Garage. I won’t even go in there any more….
Oh. Yeah. Thanks for the reminder, Mama Ginger. My laundry room. It’s the tunnel that leads to the cave mentioned above… sigh…
I know the feeling! DH and I are shocking hoarders – WAY worse then you. We’ve almost literally run out of space and I’m at a total loss about what to do with all this junk. I keep throwing more and more out but even then there’s still MORE. I’ve even taken to stealing space in our neighbours bins on collection night just so I can get rid of some of it.