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ailbheI was in the home of someone with twin boys today and I am INSPIRED by how little junk they have. Their toys are lovely and they can play with them all. Their rooms are spacious and pleasant. And they live in a house exactly like ours, so I can do this too!
In an effort to make this happen in my house I have reshuffled some of our toy storage so that none of the toys are behind a curtain any more; I hope to find out what the kids do actually want to play with and work with that, rather than remove things without their knowledge, but I know that they have a lot of, eg, stuffed toys which don't have names and are very rarely touched, and tiny bits of plastic tat, and so on. Some of the plastic tat is useful to Linnea in her complex private games, but some is just junk taking up space in the toyboxes.
This means that the under-windowseat space is available for the folded buggy once again, so that's not taking up space in the hallway. So I'm pleased about that. I'm really hoping to get major work done in the hall this weekend, but not sure it will actually happen in real life.
We have done brilliant things in the library; I've taken some before photos and hope to get the after ones done on Monday or so. Getting rid of a couple of metres of books means that we can finally remove a shelf, so where we had a block that just barely fit paperbacks, so's to maximise the books per square inch of wall, now we can have most of the hardbacks on the same shelf, so books by the same author are all together again. And it looks likely that we'll even have all the fiction in one place soon, rather than spread throughout the house.
Well, all the adult fiction.
AND last weekend we assembled Rob's old computer racking IVAR into a new wardrobe IVAR for me, so I can have my clothes and the household linen sensibly stored.
Even when we feel like we're getting nowhere, we actually end up achieving things. So that's good.
In an effort to make this happen in my house I have reshuffled some of our toy storage so that none of the toys are behind a curtain any more; I hope to find out what the kids do actually want to play with and work with that, rather than remove things without their knowledge, but I know that they have a lot of, eg, stuffed toys which don't have names and are very rarely touched, and tiny bits of plastic tat, and so on. Some of the plastic tat is useful to Linnea in her complex private games, but some is just junk taking up space in the toyboxes.
This means that the under-windowseat space is available for the folded buggy once again, so that's not taking up space in the hallway. So I'm pleased about that. I'm really hoping to get major work done in the hall this weekend, but not sure it will actually happen in real life.
We have done brilliant things in the library; I've taken some before photos and hope to get the after ones done on Monday or so. Getting rid of a couple of metres of books means that we can finally remove a shelf, so where we had a block that just barely fit paperbacks, so's to maximise the books per square inch of wall, now we can have most of the hardbacks on the same shelf, so books by the same author are all together again. And it looks likely that we'll even have all the fiction in one place soon, rather than spread throughout the house.
Well, all the adult fiction.
AND last weekend we assembled Rob's old computer racking IVAR into a new wardrobe IVAR for me, so I can have my clothes and the household linen sensibly stored.
Even when we feel like we're getting nowhere, we actually end up achieving things. So that's good.
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Date: 2008-03-01 12:04 am (UTC)We too went to a friends house, they have a 2 year old, a three year old and a five year old. Everything was pristine. So we went furniture shopping and priced a big boy twin bed with, get this, pull out toy boxes underneath, or you can put slats in them and they are storage for clothin, or you can take the slats out and pu another matress in it. And it has book shelves built in to the foot board. I WANT IT!!!!!! The matress is $119.00 and the bed set is $600, so I am looking for a cheaper bed set at other furniture places. I could have a clean house! I really really want it for tyler's room (if you couldn't tell.).