Funny that you should ask this! Our washing machine crapped out so we bought a new one. My brother-in-law helped me move it into the basement. I was embarrassed about the huge mess he saw in my basement, so I vowed to clean and organize it. Well, I needed shelving from the garage to use in storing the basement items, so I had to now clean and organize the garage partway thru the basement job! Then some items from the basement truly belonged in the shed, but that was a pile o mess too, so I had to clean and organize that too (again while the basement job awaited completion). Then while walking thru the pantry, I thought a few items in there belonged In the basement, so that room got cleaned and organized too. Bottom line, the basement just got finished yesterday after three full months of work!!! I do feel great and proud that all of these areas are clean and organized. Ive lived here for 27 years, so the messes were truly vast in magnitude. Never before have I cleaned and organized so many rooms, and so thoroughly too. My neighbors asked me if we were moving because they saw huge piles of junk left out for the trash man for many weeks in a row.
Maybe I had OCD, or maybe I just had too much free time on my hands.
