On the scale of listening to a lecture on fungi to attending a screamo concert, the excitement of this achievement ranks around, well ….. around cleaning out clutter.
My desk has been a mess for years. This mess has moved from house to house with me. Each time I moved the entire drawer was pulled out and nothing in them touched because of the level of disaster they were. I acquired this desk about 9 years ago and with the exception of having a drawer full of Invisalign retainers that are no longer there, it’s been pretty much the same these 9 years. To prove just how bad it was, I honestly didn’t know what was in most of the drawers. The contents were never used. They looked like this:
(yes, that’s a baby mozart c.d. right there on top, and considering Erik is almost 5….)
So really, who knew what was in the bottom of those things. And my dear husband’s desk, with no drawers, looked like this:
Yea, my laptop was buried on Brandon’s desk because mine was just so bad. Because apparently I think buried is better than having to sit at my bomb of a desk.
Now, we all know Patti is anti clutter. We all know Patti is pretty much a neat freak and walks around after her family cleaning pretty much her entire day. You can always tell when Patti doesn’t feel good (why the third person??) because the house is inevitably messy.
So I think that living in this miniature house has prohibited my need for empty drawers and no clutter. I’m starting to feel bad about throwing things away. We have almost nothing left in this house! But…this is why cleaning out my desk was on this list. It had to happen. So I went to Wal-Mart (gack!) and purchased this:
Amazing concept right?
Now, who ever thought cleaning out a desk would be such a stressful process? Well, if you didn’t think it would, think again, because it was. Brandon and I kept snipping at each other and he got up and left a few times. It’s quite funny to think about it now. Funny now, not then.
Well we persevered and I accomplished my goal after many hours and a almost an entire weekend day used. It was worth it, because now my life is a little bit less stressful and cluttered. And, viola, I have a place to do my work. Such a concept.
And I even cleaned husband’s desk while I was at it.
My sanity surrounding my desk and working at it has been restored. And it’ll be a great thing to leave behind in this house when we leave since it is pretty beat up and I need a new one, anyway.
Or shall I say it’s now become a perfect place to fix wheels on tech decks….
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