I'm sure no one else ever does this.


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Something needs put away, but it never really gets to its destination.  For several months you come across it now and again, and for about 1/2 a second the thought passes through your head that at some point you're going to wish you had put it away.  But you still don't do it.

Then the day comes.  Your son comes in and asks why you never transferred his religious knot patch from his Cub Scout shirt to his Boy Scout shirt. 

"I did," I say.
"No you didn't," he said.
"Oh, I made you do it," I tell him.
"No I didn't,"  he says.
"Here, look'"  he shows me.

"Oops. Sorry.  I'll do it right now.  Let me grab the..................where is that baggie of patches that I took off the Cub Scout shirt FIVE months ago?!"

So I head for my three main "stash & dash" locations. 
And today I've decided to come clean, and let everyone see these very secret spots in my home. 
This is when I remember that when you have to dig around cluttered spaces it usually takes making an even bigger mess to clean the original mess.
On the up-side, you can find some other "lost" items that you didn't even know were lost and you find stuff that you didn't know you even had. 

For example:

 

Don't you love junk drawers?  You can find most anything in one. 

Except for the religious knot badge I was looking for....grrrr.

It is almost like being at that game show from the 70's that I used to love to watch,

Lets Make A Deal.  I loved that show.  Did anyone else love that show?

(Yes, I know it is on again, but it isn't the same and I don't love it.)

 

Here are a few interesting things I found.  A dinosaur shaped sandwich cutter.  Didn't know we even had one, nor have I ever used it.  Tossed it in the garbage.  Seed packets, zit medication, glue of various types, and lots of shoelaces.  But this is the grossest thing I found.  I even used sticks to pick it up with.

 

Someone's mouth guard.  You got to see it right before it landed in the trash. 
Lots of stuff landed in the trash, or got put where they should have been in the first place, and now the drawers look like this.

Ahh, so much better.

 

 

The messy, top, left hand cupboard. Yep, that is usually what I call it when I need someone to get in there for me.  I was amazed at how many types of thank you cards I have.  I didn't think I had any so I kept buying them, I guess.  Another reason to clean up your clutter.  You will save money because you don't rebuy things that you already have.  um hum.

 

No, I didn't find the patches here either, but I did find items from the scouting community, so I'm feeling a little bit more confident.  I found lots of water balloons.  We love water balloons at our house and I'm still wondering why the Bear scarf is in here.  We haven't had a Bear in our house for over three years.  Probably because of the same reason I'm looking for the baggie of patches, right?  And there is my labeler.  It wasn't lost though.  I use that guy a lot and so I did know where to go for that.

And now it is a nice clean, top, left handed cupboard.
Yea!

Before I started on this one last location I scanned the top of my dresser, a drawer in my dresser, my jewelry box, and a drawer in the laundry room. Guess I just wanted a change in scenery.  And I may have gotten a little side-tracked while putting away other things I found. 

At this point I was getting a little worried that I wasn't going to find the baggie.  I really didn't want to pull everything out of here.  You can see pumpkins that got shoved there after Thanksgiving.  Lots of cookbooks.  The blue tape that I couldn't find so I bought another roll!  (You can see the second tape purchase up in the drawer picture)  arggggg  Remember the saving money thing I mentioned earlier? 

Robin socks.  I'm pretty sure this is the last place I would have looked for them next time Mitch wanted to wear them.  They are pretty cute when they are on.  With their little cape in the back.  Mitch's friend has Batman ones and they wore them to school (while wearing shorts) on Super Hero day for spirit week.

Mitch's athletic pants that we searched the house for on Saturday.  Mitch's again....hum, starting to see a theme here.  I'm not even asking why he has clothing shoved in this cabinet.

Why our wedding album was in there, I will never know.  I did take a snap shot of a darling picture of Marcee (5) & Geri (4).  So sweet.

And guess what.  SUCCESS!  and clean drawers, cupboards, and cabinets.  Maybe my bad habit isn't 100% bad.  This way these secret little areas get a good cleaning every couple of years.




Now, to find the thread box.  humm