I did as directed. I don't see a picture. Do you??

I see your picture. It could be worse. Looks like you have a good space and ready to jump in there. A little at a time is my motto.

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HA! THat's neat compared to mine ! LOLOLLL

Neat compared to mine too. Want to come straighten mine??

If that is a disaster, I'd hate to think of what my apartment is! I have stuff like that spread out everywhere. lol! I guess the answer is to get a lot of projects done and post pictures of them all!

It just looks like you laid stuff out to sort and put away...do not be so hard on yourself....don't come see me and my bedroom and bathroom....and the patio and the basket ball court and my---I have mine spread out too so I can sort and have same stuff together, lol.

Seems we all have a room decorated in this fashion.
Sort of like a tornado hit GW, a few yard sales, and maybe Wally World before touching down at home. LOL.

"Home is where you keep your stuff
While you're out getting more stuff."

hugs, Karen

Here's an article about messes. Hope it can be read the way it's loaded. I might have a room worse than yours, but would know for sure if I could even get through the door to see, lol. Linda

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This is really weird. I still don't see my picture. I'm lucky to have a 12' x 12' room adjoining my bedroom where I have my computer, sewing machine and garden junk. At least it's out of the way.

Yes Laura you are lucky to have a separate room for your stash. My small apartment is my craft room, so I have to keep it cleaned up pretty good. My GD comes every other weekend, so have to be clean for her stay. She is good though. I have taught her the difference between Zoe's crafts and Grandma's crafts. She is good about not touching Grandma's sg etc.. She can look all she wants, but that is it.

I was very tempted to take a pic of the room me and DH sleep in - it's not the master bedroom because that's the biggest bedroom therefore it can and does hold the most JUNK!!! Yet, our middle bedroom is also totally cluttered with JUNK!! And on the Conversations side, Kirk did a post on asking that we show where our puters are... but that room is so filled with JUNK it's just too embarrassing!! My dining room is also filled with JUNK. Actually, there's no dining room anymore, just a storage area off the kitchen that's filled with JUNK!! And we can't use the garage, can barely get into it because it is filled with JUNK!!
I'm very jealous of you, Laura. I would love to have all that leftover space for some of my JUNK! LOLOLOL

Linda - that is a GREAT article. LOL

MY WORKROOM COULD BEAT UP YOUR WORK ROOM. I am just too much of a coward to show you a picture.

At least you still can see the floor!! ;-)

Marlene... that is a very good point you made! LOL.
I'm working on decluttering the garage (which is not for cars of course. Its my craft, storage, junk area). My goal is to actually see floor space and not just a narrow path thru obstacles. I'm slowly getting there, and hoping THIS time it STAYS that way once done.

hugs, Karen

Yeah Laura, looks neat to me too. The rooms in my old house are all small but I'm lucky theres a lot of them. My "study" has boxes that I cleared out of my husband's cuz I surprised him with a beautiful "new" desk in his. I'm hoping by August I can get to my crafting and junking supplies again,lol.
My problem is getting rid of stuff that I don't really want or need which is hiding all the stuff that I can't find! But I'm working on it. Just the other day I cleaned out my bureau of a bunch of pants that I will never wear even if I shrink and I found a nice pair that fits!
I'm so grateful to thrift stores because they find a new home for things and I don't have to feel wasteful (I'm terrible at yard sales.)
kathy

Haven't had time to post much lately, but had to jump in on this one. Cait, I didn't post my computer area pic either because it's sloppy and we only clean it up a couple of times a year when our folks come to visit .... maybe next time they come :-) It's up in my finished attic space, so I can keep unwanted visitors downstairs easily lol.

My craft area is in my partially finished basement. Problem is that both my kids have "temporarily" stored quite a bit of their stuff down there .... stuff that they don't want where they're currently living .... so guess what? .... We tried to have a yard sale last weekend, rained us out all 3 days. So now it's out on my deck under the awnings, wrapped in plastic, and just looks lovely .... NOT lol. Looks like we're gonna have the first rain free weekend in 7 weeks, so there's a yard sale ON at my house this weekend, and I hope to get my craft area back again after that. This is the main reason I haven't even gotten my house finished for MissTooMuchGlass, but I promise, it's coming.

Laura, that looks like a great workroom! Good lighting and bright. Love the 2 big metal filing cabinets too. Oh, I really need to get organized myself, it's messing up my Feng and my Shui lol ..... ~tenderlee

Tenderlee... I hear ya!!

Laura, we all musta made you feel reeeeaaaaal gooooood!!! LOL

Now that's it's winter down here I'll start on the next part of my renovation and when that is complete I will have a HUGE clearout and garage sale and then maybe... just maybe, I can show off nice, cleared living spaces!! How I'm living now is nothing like I was living when I first moved into the house. Unreal how quickly I've managed to stuff this little house with STUFF! But that's the problem with little houses... their LITTLE!!! HA! You are VERY lucky to have a dedicated messy place room!!! My entire house is the dedicated messy place!!

Oh boy...do I feel better!!

I thought I was the only one with a workroom that looks like a bomb went off in it!! And I used to be so organized!! My workroom has become the catchall place for anything without a home. Plus, the computer Jim uses when he works at home is back there, along with the equipment he uses to transfer old records to CD.

I keep telling him we need a bigger house. He just looks at me and laughs!!

This post has cheered me up. I'm just so glad I'm not the only unorganized one on here!!

~Sandy~

Today I did some organizing. Have the glass in baskets, one box, 2 file cabinet drawers, 4 entertainment center shelves, on top of the EC and TV and some larger pieces and my half finished flowers on the floor around the edges of the room (fort of). Where did all this stuff come from??? It keeps multiplying!! HELP!

I feel better!! Sandy has it right!!(Like a bomb went off!) I'm just hoping there is no earthquake tonight as I'm having a yard sale this sat. and I'm drowning in stuff! L.R. has a wire 8 cube thing I thought would get me organized! Ha! Had to take it apart to get it in craft room. Then wouldn't work anywhere. The 3 legged stool I have moved around for years! It's going, solid wood or not!!Anyone need 80 wigs? Most still in boxes! Trying to give them away! Silver plated tray with set of coasters included!(who uses that stuff anymore) vanilla facial kit,Ivanna jewelry(It's large!!)List goes on & on. Have to finish cleaning up garage tomorrow & hope they buy some of this stuff. Oh yes,blender & crockpot,extra printer & keyboard. I love getting "free" stuff from friend but it's got to clear out faster!! Too much of a good thing!! Harley-Davidson baby doll never been out of box. Shapers still in box to pull in your tummy or some to squeeze in your rear!! Enough already!! Wish I was organizing my garden junk,would be more fun!! Jan

Alright you guys have just about inspired me to have a yard sale. The two chairs from my mil's attic that I now don't think I"ll ever repair, same with another old chair or 2 in the attic of the garage. (I have lots of chairs already that don'tneed fixing, enough for all my porches lol.) I just know there is stuff in the basement and the back of the cupboard that I should drag out. Maybe if I could get my neighbors to do the same weekend... (except then I wont get to look at their stuff)
kathy

haha...I just did a post about "hoarding" on my blog. I posted it so I could start cleaning my life up!! It got my daughter cleaning up some of her stuff....
I have a lot of mine in the living room. HossFly has a friend in a tobacco store, so he saves lots of cigar boxes for me, and I used a lot of them to sort crafts I do almost daily. I covered them with Kraft paper and made labels....but what about the rest of the stuff?? LOL...I'm constantly thinking "don't turn into your mother"...my mother saved everything,compulsive hoarding,not crafting..just saving. check out my blog...no photos,tho!!

kudzu

Here is a link that might be useful: kudzu's blog

Kudzo, just read your blog. That poor woman has that hoarding disease. Maybe it's a good thing that I don't have the money to be able to hoard like her!

Jan, hope you make out like a bandit at your garage sale!! Tell us how you do. I made about $200 at my last garage sale.

Laura, good for you, clearing up like that. And you have to start separating the boy stuff from the girls stuff or they'll never stop multiplying!!! HA!

Linda, save me a copy of that article, can not get it to print all out. I have a point to prove to someone, lol.

Now this article means that we belong to a group called
SML (Sacred Messiness of Life) no no I think the SOD(Sacred Order of Disorder) is better. SOD as in grass and we got it covered. LOL. We will leave SML to the kids and grandkids, LOL.

Welcome to Camp Calamity...or Ranchero Sidetracko...can't make up my mind...You decide!!!lol! Anyhoo, just to make Ya'll feel better...here is my shameful "Art Room" (11x21)...now I also have a shed that is 18x20 and a shed off that that is 10x30...that are REALLY bad!!! So the Art Room was supposed to "help" with the mess in the outside sheds...nope. I just collected MORE!!!! BUT in my defence...if I Ever get it all put together(use the precious stuff!lol), I will be down to some Very reasonable and functional spaces...Ah Come On!!! One can dream can't they!?!!!! ;-)

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Calamity, what a pretty Art Room somewhere in that stuff.
LOL. Love the color and cheerfulness of it.

Two..."SOD(Sacred Order of Disorder) is better. SOD as in grass and we got it covered. LOL"...I LOVE this. I am definitely a member! LOL

hugs, Karen

If you saw my room - you'd faint. I have a phone in there that I can't even answer ...... all you can see and hear is a pile of junk ringing ~~~

If I wasn't the Queen of SOD and totally embarassed, I'd post a picture of MY disorder! It would beat the crap out of everyone else's! lol! My problem is Bob, who is the King Grand Poobah of SOD. Being disabled and working full-time, I can't keep up with him. I finally made him rent a storage space to put all his extra stuff. If left unchecked, he could easily be that person's mother in that article kudzukween posted the link to on her blog. He blames it on his OCD. I think I will try to finish sorting through my stuff tomorrow!

This is so funny. I thought nobody could top mine!

My computer was in the shop when this was posted--
I am just catching up...
I have 3 buildings that look worse than that, including
my house! Since Bill died, I don't have to move anything
and that's the way things are here-LOL
No grandchildren to come, only one daughter, and her
hubby and if they don't like it, who cares-LOL
I do, however, wish I could find things when I want them!!!