![]() Just be prepared to consider that it’s not your cleaning that’s at fault, it’s the space itself! Having lived in old houses most of my adult life, I know the issues. They have to be finished in a way that when they are wiped down they actually look clean. The actual surfaces have to be free of gaping holes or torn carpet or what have you. Whether it’s a part of the room or an actual closet or under the beds, it needs to be something that you can clean when it’s empty. The space doesn’t matter - it’s only for storing things. Not yours, Karen, because no doubt you are actually a good housekeeper yourself, but others’ assumptions.ġ. ![]() People might be frustrated with where they keep their games and toys and skeptical that my closet will remain fabulous, and I will address their assumptions one by one. Here is the reason I tell you to do what I didn’t manage myself: make sure you get the closets repaired and painted before you put anything in them, even if it means having things out for a while! I did that in this house for many of the closets, but just didn’t get to this one in time. Even things that clean other things - like dishwashers and washing machines - occasionally have to be pulled out, scoured out, and put back the way you want them! So, how much more a toy closet.īut that assumes that the space can be cleaned and that you would want to try. You can see an actual tutorial, on this process in this post. The proper way to clean something, as I have told you when we went on our Reasonably Clean House journey together, is to pull everything out, clean the space, sort and clean the things, and put back what truly belongs there. And everyone who would have played with those things is gone, pretty much. It was too dismal, unclean-able, and neglected. ![]() is simply that I, the household manager, did not ever ever ever ever want to go in there. No, the real issue was the closet itself. Of course, part of the way I personally will keep it that way is that nothing that is out of the reach of very little hands is accessible by anyone under the age of 17, so how messy can it get, at this point?Īnd the people who do come here with littles are very good about making sure everything is the way it was found.īut that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t possible to have things this way all along. No, the problem was with the closet itself, and actually, I think if we talk about it a little, you will see how it is that anyone can keep the toy area reasonably neat and tidy. As I said, it was remarkably not in a tangle, despite years of neglect on my part. The problem was never with the stuff itself. Yesterday in the comments Karen asked, “But how will you keep it that way?” ![]()
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