It's so true. My girls clean their room and the whole family gathers in there to hang out! My son's room is always horrible. He has TOO MUCH stuff, and it is very hard for me to purge it. A) Everything has tiny pieces, and I'm always sure there are few that still need to be found. B) He has super cool looking boy toys that I'm sure he'd play with if it were all just a bit better organized. Never mind that all he ever likes to play with are magnets. Sigh. Ok, we'll work on it tomorrow (really, not a Scarlett O'Hara tomorrow)
Woohoo! I am planning to be on a serious cleaning/organizing roll here soon when I have a week off homeschooling and absolutely nothing to do & nowhere to be. Unless it runs away, it's gonna get cleaned &/or organized. Bwahaha!!
Your blog is so inspirational to me, everything you write I am thinkning oh crap she thinks just like me, that pile of shredded paper and other misscelaneous stuff can just stay there till later, its not in the way. lol Thank you for doing this.
Also, I am so glad to see someone else gets the futility of big, admittedly cool-looking toyboxes like that one. I got rid of my kids' big toyboxes years ago, after realizing that while, yes, it is quick to throw everything in one box at bedtime, having a big everything-goes-in box means that EVERYTHING gets pulled out into a huge, discouraging pile in order to find either one specific toy or all of a "type" of toy like all the blocks or all the Barbies and it's nearly impossible to tell which toys are actually getting played with and which are just being pulled out along with the really-wanted toys.
I love this! I'll bet she's so proud of that hutch. I love it. Her room is really pretty and adorable. You've inspired me to really get into my girl's room and purge. I cleaned it before, but never really got rid of enough stuff. You've inspired me!
It looks great!! I was working on toys this week, too. My kids play so much better when it's not crazy and overwhelming. I wish I could have seen the before the before picture. My before pics are pretty bad.
Seriously, you and your choir need to come help me "fix" my daughters room. It still has not been touched. Of course my brother promised her a stage he hasn't built and my mom promised handmade curtains that haven't been made. So its not completely my fault, except for that whole cleaning thing. Dd7 will be out of the Rock Star phase by the time her room is finished!
Great job on the room and using what you have. I would've put it somewhere "just for right now". That's where it would stay unless I bought another piece of furniture. Thanks for the heads up on the large toy container. I've actually wanted one but now am reconsidering. Any thoughts on those shelf units with the open containers?
Wow!! great work!! your daughters room looks great!! ? I love the hutch thats exactly the kinda thing I'm looking for, for my house ?
I found ur blog last week and I've been doing as u've suggested and reading ur blog backwards. U've come a long way and I hope that I too can get out of my slob ways lol. Keep up the good work ?
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Shannon, I'm always attracted to those shelf units, but we've never had one of the ones where you could totally see the drawers. We have an ikea one where the drawers slide in . . . and we really never use it. The only times things got sorted was when I did a major overhaul. Most of that is because of me not having them do it nightly.
I did this to my youngest sons room this past fall. I thought seriously about what he plays with. It's his Legos & stuffed animals. Period. Rarely does he ever play with anything else. So, I was ruthless, I boxed up everything. I did keep out 'nice' books, I got rid of 'crap' books, ALL other toys. He had a stroke! But the deal was, that if he came to me & specifically asked for a certain item, within a certain amount of time, he could have it back. He's only asked for 3 things. And I had at least 8 boxes of stuff that went out to the shed for the garage sale this summer.
Yeah, Nony, I was afraid of that. I'm not the organized, everything has to be put back in its home type cleaner anyway. Most of the time, I'm lucky if anything gets picked up at all. Well, I'm glad I haven't invested in it. Most of the stuff that has little parts gets tossed into a zip top bag. Eventually when we get tired of stepping on little parts, they get tossed. Except legos. They've stuck around for some reason.
When I read the first part of your post where you were feeling hopeless, over the chaos in your daughter's room, my heart just ached for you. I am so glad you found a way past those feelings and found solutions that work for you. You are doing wonderful things, to bless your home.
Wow, what a transformation! It must be such a relief. We have one room that continues to get worse and worse. Ever saturday I say that I'll clean it then next week but so far it hasn't happened :::blush:::.
A Slob Comes Clean is the completely honest (and never-ending) story of my deslobification process. As I find ways to keep my home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and organization methods that actually work for a real-life slob. And I'm funny.
Hello Virginia,
Our girls love this bed and still sleep in it till this day. Comfort level wise will definitely depend on the mattress you use and not the bed frame itself. It's a great bed for storage and an additional bed frame when needed. :)
Hello, I have 3 boys, 2 of them the same ages as your girls. This bed I believe would be ideal. When not in use do you have to take off the mattress on the underbed and stack up on the top bed and store pillows and bed covers in the drawers? Trying to choose mattress to avoid that. Ideally want the boys to just slide it all underneath.
The girls room looks fab !!
Hello Jane!
I JUST bought this bed for my 4 year old daughter. Unfortunately our non-IKEA twin mattress is overstuffed in the top bed (you can't even see the headboard). Can you tell me which IKEA mattress we should get that will fit comfortably in the upper portion of the SLAKT frame?
Thanks so much,
Melissa
Hi! I'm thinking of buying this bed for my kids. Are you still using this now? Has it held up well over the years? Would love some honest feedback because we want to invest in a bed for the next 7-8 years.
Hi Flavia,
Yes, this mattress will fit the pullout bed. It is a little tight depending on what floor surface you have the bed on though but it will fit.
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I'm Jane and about a decade ago, my husband and I were in college and we moved out into our very first place. It was a tiny studio and we had the hardest time finding furniture on island that would fit into our space at the right price point. So in 2013 with 2 children in tow we created haul2hi in a tiny storage unit with the mission of providing the people of Hawaii access to functional and affordable IKEA home furnishings at an unbeatable price.
Even before going into hiding, Anne began collecting film star pictures and postcards.[1] To her American pen pal, Juanita Wagner, Anne wrote on 29 April 1939 that her collection of 'picture-cards' numbered around eight hundred.[2] This collection went with her from Merwedeplein to the Secret Annex. In her diary, Anne writes about it:
Anne spent a lot of time on her collection. She expanded it with new pictures taken from magazines, which she got from helpers. Such as Libelle, Panorama and Cinema & Theatre. She removed pictures from the wall, or hung them on top of each other with 'brush and a pot of glue' or with 'photo corners' to make them easier to change.[3][4] She also gave away a few movie star pictures to Peter, which he hung in his own room. Anne would have liked to have given him more, but he kindly declined this offer: 'I'd rather keep the one I've got. I look at it every day, and the people in it have become my friends.'[5]
Research on the walls in the Secret Annex yielded a total of seventy-seven picture descriptions.[6] Forty pictures came from various magazines, of which twenty-nine were from Libelle. Many film stars came from Libelle in the years 1939-1940. From Libelle in 1941 she cut out mainly children's pictures, drawings and two art history images. American film stars were in fewer and fewer of these pictures as the occupation progressed.
All the different pictures show Anne's interests. While in hiding, she became more interested in history and mythology. With Margot, she studied hard 'to keep from being ignorant'.[7] The story Film Star Illusion, in which Anne describes a meeting with the Lane Sisters that ends with the words that she is 'cured of all celebrity illusions for good '.[8] The picture research shows that Anne put her money where her mouth is. A picture of the Lane Sisters was hidden behind the picture of Michelangelo's sculpture, and a map of the French-German borderland was mounted with drawing pins on top of the photo of American actress Sally Eilers.[9]
A number of children's pictures and drawings were also replaced with more adult images. For example, Anne pinned Hermes on top of a picture of a girl with a skipping rope, Paracelsus on a girl with a parasol and a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci on a girl doing laundry with her dolls.[10]
Anne did not entirely put aside her interest in film stars. In January 1944, she wrote that she still spent many Sundays sorting out and sorting through her large film star collection, 'which has grown to a very respectable size'.[11] She did, however, have less and less time for it. In May 1944, for instance, she wrote: 'my movie stars are in a terrible disarray and are dying to be straightened out', but as she is 'up to her ears in work, they'll have to put up with the chaos a while longer'.[12]
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