"Let there be carpet..."

Could someone explain to me why every time I try to do a huge clean-up, it just seems like the mess gets worse? When I get to my frustration point, I just look around and the place looks like room exploded and spat up all over the floor. I figured I wanted to get a few plastic containers to store things. Of course, I went to Target first cause I do love Target. I found the storage section and was having the hardest time separating the containers. No joke, I must have spent at least 10 minutes trying every way possible to get them apart, but I just couldn't! It was so ridiculous. Finally, when I got them apart, there were no lids! I tried on all the lids and not one would fit! I left annoyed and empty handed. Luckily, I was able to find ones that came apart easily at the Wally and they were actually half the price!

With these "seasonal" cleanups, I always donate bags of goodies to the VVA. I swear, they must love me because everything is always in such great quality, and I even label the bags with the contents. I feel like Cher from the movie Clueless, with how she separated the food items by courses. I'm not going to lie, it's definitely hard to let the closet things go. I always think of it in terms of money that was spent on them and that I might just use it again sometime.

Normally, I have all my bags lying across the top shelf but I figured I'd try to be more organized and store most of them into containers. It's actually better because I can stack more on top of each other, but now they're harder to see. I was contemplating labeling what bags were inside each, but I figured I probably wouldn't place them back in the right bins. I actually do label the shoeboxes with what's inside. Trust me, if I had a Polaroid and the film was cheap, I'd probably tape pics on the outside. Ooh, I got a small bin to store Cinnamon's clothes too!



My mom brought home two new outfits for Cinnamon earlier on this week. Keep in mind, I had nothing to do with it so I don't want to hear people yelling at me saying, "he's a boy!" You know what I say, nothing wrong with some cross-dressing, haha. He looks so cute in the kimono though, I LOVE the bow! Move over, Xiyi Zhang, this is how a geisha rolls....