The basement was a problem.
Over a year ago, Beloved knocked out one of the two walls on the cistern. In May, the second wall got torn apart to provide more stones for the backyard walkway. While that is a great re-purposing of the rock, it left a pile of rubble, dirt, crud, and dust in the southwest corner of the basement. A pile that was being tracked through every time someone went down there. A pile that the cat recently decided was better than the catbox. *grimaces* Not cool!
Last weekend, Beloved spent a day sweeping the mess into a single pile and then covered it with a tarp to keep the cats out. It was a huge improvement! He then walked around and measured the space with thoughts of actually making it a usable play space where we could stay cool.
But that got me looking at the rest of the space. There were boxes of stuff I kept meaning to donate, empty grocery bags from the GoodWill clothes purchases that I'd brought home and washed, but left the bags. Leftover bits from house projects.
This week, I dragged FOUR contractor bags of garbage out to the curb, Freecycled a gigantic box the stuff I'd been intending to donate, and actually swept the corners out. Now, you can almost think the space is organized! WOW!!!
That doesn't include the little back room, however...the room that is "mine". It's in desperate need of sorting, gleaning, donations, re-purposeding, and trashing. Maybe next week?
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