Accumulation

My kids have the tendency to leave things laying around the house - ALL THE TIME! It drives me crazy. So in order to stay sane, I take away things that are left lying around when said kids choose not to put them away after being asked a gazillion times. Here is my collection over the past couple of years:

a giant Nemo
coats
shoes
pants
more books than I can count
a lot of toys (Happy Meal toys go straight to the trash, none of those in this stack - believe it or not)
dress up clothes
and a ton (literally) of crayons - I may never have to buy another crayon again!

It is amazing what they feel they can live without it it means they do not have to clean it up!

So a couple of weeks ago I cleaned up this mess. One garbage bag to the DI, another with just garbage, books given back to the kids and the rest organized and ready to be earned back.



You almost would have thought it was Christmas for both the mom and the kids! Kids eager to earn back stuff they had forgotten about and a mom happy because jobs were getting done.