Day 24 of the 500 Pound Declutter - The Laundry Room

In all honesty, my laundry room is just an extension of my storage room.  But clearly that was too big a project to tackle at all once.


But it was time.

My unique challenge was that this not only is my laundry room wall.  But it has also turned into the beer-brewing home base.

We have started brewing our own beer at home.  Another post for another time.  But with beer brewing comes a lot of stuff.

So here was where we started.

Let's all sing it together, "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..."

Almost immediately, I came across this.  Yes, it is what it looks like.  A boomerang.  Evidently I needed a weapon around just in case something creepy happened in the basement late one night while I did laundry.

You think I am kidding?  Look what I found next.  Pretty sure she just didn't know how to use the boomeramg.

Laundry room counters are the dumping ground for the random stuff that goes through the wash in pockets.  Stuff like this.

And this.

Here is my tip on that front.  Throw it away.  Well, not the money.  But random beads and shells and rubber animals.  The kids will not miss them.  If they didn't care enough to keep them out of the wash, they won't care if they land in the trash.


However, the good news is that this is the first decluttering project where I stand to make some money as everywhere I went I seemed to find some.

I reorganized all of the empty beer bottles and got all of the beer stuff organized in a less leaning-tower-of-beer way.  And pulled out a small a decorative box.  In the future, I will toss loose change and the pocket stuff that needs to be kept in there.

From there, I moved over to the laundry sink counter.

But not before noticing this.

Evidently even plastic chameleons have the ability to camouflage themselves.  Who knew?

Started in on the laundry sink.

And yes, along the back wall for those of you who also grew up in the 1980s, are Mad Balls.  What, you don't keep them in your laundry sink, too?

After removing said Mad Balls, I discovered this little guy.  I mean really, how in the world did he land there.  And why?

All in all, it took me about 45 minutes to do this chunk of the room.  Ending up with a wall that looks like this.

And in doing so, I managed to purge another 7 pounds of clutter.  So our grand total is now:

412 pounds

Added bonus, I also found $1.37, 10 Mexican pesos and a flattened penny from the San Diego zoo.