OK, so with five days invested in my house-clean-up-and-out project, there is one room that's totally clean.
Woo-hoo!
That may not seem like a lot to you, but when I show you the before and after images, you'll understand my excitement.
I have dubbed my helper the “Room Whisperer,” because he goes through each room to decide what needs to be done next.
On that note, we hit a bit of a snag…just a bit. However, since my Room Whisperer was willing to compromise with me, we're good now.
His suggestion was that we clean up two rooms on the top level, but I wanted to clean up/out another room on the middle level; the room next to the totally-clean room. Tomorrow is trash day, and I know that room has a lot of paper that can be shredded and put out for the truck to pick up.
My Room Whisperer didn't see the value of that, so I explained to him my reasoning, and we decided on a compromise.
Instead of trying to clean out and up the two rooms on the top level, we're going to clean out all three rooms.
What that means is we're going to simply go through everything in all three rooms and only concentrate on things that need to be thrown away or shredded. We're not going to worry about anything that stays, should be donated or should be sold. We're only focusing on trash and papers to shred.
This way, we accomplish a lot and I get to have a say in how things are done, even though the Room Whisperer has the ultimate veto.
I also got him to agree that we don't have totally clean one room before starting on another, because there are going to be little odds and ends that can't be decided on right away. That's why it took five days to do one room; because there were odds and ends to deal with.
Anyway, I wanted to make sure you all don't get the impression that my Room Whisperer is a total tyrant. Haha.
On that note, let me get back to the task at hand before the not-so-total tyrant starts ty-ranting all over me. 🙂
