The Battle of the Basement

Alex wants to have a cast party after the musical. It is one of the biggest casts yet, so I told him we had to clean the basement first so there was room for everyone. There has been 2 families down there since it was last cleaned and it is a mess. Each family has left things behind so we accumulated furniture, toys, and all kinds of odds and ends. We worked all day and still have a big mess! It actually looks worse than when we started. Alex said that it took 28 years of living here to make that mess and we are not going to clean it in a day! I really wish we could have called the clean sweep team, but instead we did the best we could. I found some interesting things and was taken back into time when all my little ones were actually still little! I have a big bag of "things" for each of them. Payback is sweet! We are running out of time so my goal is to do a little bit hopefully every day. Since we now have limited garbage pick-up, it will take forever to get rid of all the junk. We need a dumpster! And, I might add, that we are only cleaning half of the basement- the half where the family room is. The moral of this story is: at least every five years, clean like you are moving and don't wait for 28 years.