Spamman4587Journal Room Project...

September 29th, 2009

Room Project...

I've been working on this for almost two months, little by little...I think the pictures speak better than words...
The impetus for all the cleaning and whatnot was the need for a new mattress...my 20+ year old mattress was springy and not very comfy at all...Now while my I cleaned (Mom held the trash bags) I was expecting some pretty nasty stuff...That wasnt the case at all... With the exception of a lot of dust here and there and the invariable cobwebs, I was certainly surprised by the lack of actual nasty messes.

I am not a hoarder...I have no real emotional attachment to almost anything in my room...Im just extremely disorganized except I knew where everything was. (Order amongst Chaos.)

Before...(standing in the door of the room)

First week...(standing in the door of the room)

Second week...(standing in the door of the room)

Most of the Ale8 caps I found in my room...(This container is now overflowing now that I've found most all of them.

Continued in comments...

Posted 4 months ago by Spamman4587 Comments (27)	+ 15 Cool

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Groonz

I am a PC

#1 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Sorry spam can't wait for the rest of the journal in the comments... I need to get some serious sleep... so I am off, but I wanted to give you a plus 1 awesome sauce for owning a leafs jersey!!!!!

Moozleflash

#2 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
That's dedication.

Spamman4587

Ale8Supplier

Second round of garbage (Mainly clothes and other trash) Our neighbor was nice enough to let us use her garbage toter.

Third week...Got the new Air Conditioner in...

Fourth week...cleared out the top of the other bed as well as deflated the 5ft wide Millenium Falcon. Cleared out items in front of closet.

Moved Armoire for temporary storage and migrating all preliminary keep items to opposite side of the room.

Week 5 and 6...Cleared out other bed on Week 5, including mattress and boxspring. Week 6 (culminating into tonight) we cleared out the bedframe and cleaned out the top of the dresser, vacuumed the carpet and the additional carpet that was underneath the other bed.

Dresser Before

Dresser After

Corner where other bed was located

Spamman4587

Ale8Supplier

Here's the total breakdown so far...

40 bags of trash
2 mattresses
2 boxsprings (I got a new bed since mine was 20+ years old so that old bed was hauled away when I got the new one.)
14 boxes of donated books to the local library for resale
2 huge garbage bags of donated clothes to a friend who could wear them (they were all shirts)

Mom and I have put in about 40 hours into this moving this that and the other around. This house is over 100 years old and the dust on some of this stuff was more than 2 inches thick. The dust hasnt yet settled again in the room and my allergies are still going haywire...

I still have another round of throwing things away from my preliminary keep pile of stuff...cause I changed my mind on some things like legos and whatnot that just simply need to go.

Im thinking about putting in an entertainment system in where the old bed was and putting a futon in here just in case anyone wants to crash here. I still have a ton of work to do...

Spamman4587

Ale8Supplier

This is how the room looks from my new bed. The papa san (Mushroom chair) in the center is holding all my hanging type clothing for the time being since I got rid of my hanging rack. so it doesnt look like I've made as much progress as I have.

Preliminary keep pile. I estimate more than half of this going away...In the rocking chair are every day clothes (IE non work.) and the big tupperware tubs are empty and the toy chest underneath the AC unit has the inflatable Millenium Falcon inside. All my P-51 planes that were on top of my stereo system are in storage inside the Armoire. And that is a Watchmen DVD shipper top that I swiped from work. Rorschach's face is holographic...Pretty slick.

Heather

The GamePlan

#6 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Holy balls dude. That's one helluva mess, and one epic cleanup job. I'm impressed!

Hamstar

ReStar

#7 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Jesus! Okay, I need to hire you to come clean my mess! Last week I threw out 3 bags of stuff... nothing quite as impressive as the work you've performed! Keep up the great job!

karlibean

OneTiredGirl

#8 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Years of dedication to a mess all cleared away...what a shame. J/K! Glad that you can navigate through your room without fear of peril now.

DiMono

Titular

SITE ADMIN

#9 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Well done!

raz0rblade

NewHedfones

#10 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
The next time I get crap from my mom about the house being a mess, I'm showing her these pictures........

lukemckay

balls 2 that

SITE ADMIN

#11 Posted 4 months ago	+ 2 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I think I just crapped my pants. That was one messy room. I can not begin to tell you how much my mind was just blown. And how my soul is actually healed a bit in knowing that mess is cleaned up.

ragingterror

Exhaustion

#12 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
My reaction to the first pic: D: Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. That is one hell of a cleanup job.

Cechmanek

BEAR

#13 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I thought my room was bad.

kalvaza

out of line

#14 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I doubt I have 40 trash bags worth of my whole house. Post edited 9/29/09 12:40PM

BluValkyrie

Date In Mind

#15 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
a clean room helps you feel so much better. I had a friend growing up who's house was like that in all but one room, the 'formal room'

Microbe

Sponsor

#16 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Dude you weren't fucking kidding when you told someone, no me about this! I packrat too, but DAMN that's a lot of stuff!

Groonz

I am a PC

#17 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Holy @#$% dude! That's an amazing clean up job! Excellent work! I hoped the leaf jersey stayed.... how's it feel to have room? P.S. - lol, I have one of those Dale Earnhardt pencil set things too.

TeamSniper

Bowl Champs

#18 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Holy hell man, that was a heck of a mess! Nice job cleaning it up!

MarthaMarin

Sponsor

#19 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
that's hardcore doll.

opusnbill

I'm proud to say that you have done an awesome job of pitching stuff. When we first started this "project" I thought you would just move it from place to place keeping most of it. I am so happy that you have thrown out about 80% of the stuff. It really is nice to be able to walk in your room without having to climb over piles of clothes and getting Ale 8 bottle caps stuck to the bottom of my bare feet. You are doing a fantastiic job. A big thank you to our sweet sweet neighbor who let us use her toter to put the stuff out, and to our wonderful trash men who took it all.

opusnbill

#21 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Next week we should get rid of the broken computer chair.

ValhallaKing

Cosmic Egg

#22 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
GOOD NIGHT!! That's amazing. Good job. It's awesome after cleaning up your room. It gives you a good feeling.

Nat

#23 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Dude... omg... Keep that indigo carpet clean, it's a really nice colour.

jackie

bigdamn hero

FORUM MOD

#24 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
ho. ly. crap.

SloeBombFizz

Raslin Kevin

If I'm reading this right, you may not have bought the new mattress yet.
Let me push for one of the few things I've discovered in life that I think of as valid insight... an air filled mattress.
Not the cheapo ones you buy to go camping with or pull out of the closet for guests.

But bed manufacturers make very comfortable, solid matresses with air supported interiors rather than traditional metal coils (i.e. twisted spikes). They can be inexpensive if you can find the right ones and they will always be better for you and more comfortable than traditional metal spikes in your spine. Good ones have foam inserts along the sides and heavy quilting across the top so they feel just like you expect a mattress to, except they don't have pressure points or saggy weak spots no matter how many years you own them.

Shopping for the inexpensive air mattress can take some leg work. They aren't common, so the first options I find using Google are expensive or are those cheesy kind you use for camping.

But I'd encourage you to look.

Here's some examples - though I didn't find any with a good price in this group.
www.selectcomfort.com/eng/products/sleep-number-beds/classic-series/c2/c2_bed?c2
www.airmattressadjustablebed.com/product/PFS
www.cozynite.com/product.php?productid=16135&cat=249&page=1
www.wshome.com/products/9264904/index.cfm ?
www.airbeddiscounters.com/airbed-mattress.html

EVApilot_011

#26 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Hells bells! I see a career in Crime scene clean-up for you. Messy job, but the pay it bitchin'!

mangrove

#27 Posted 2 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I HAVE been neglecting my RvB watchlist! good work hon! Does this mean I no longer have to come over and clean your room for you? All well.

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