I Spy has to be one of the best ways to keep kids and adults alike entertained in doctors’ offices, on busses, on trains, and in the car. I always loved it as a kid and enjoyed it with my own children. So when I decided to attack a pile of random clutter in my house, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities.
I’m sharing that I Spy joy with you today. Below is a picture of my buffet. It is the product of having four people in our house who are all in the bad habit of putting things down wherever they are standing rather than taking that extra few seconds to put them where they belong. The result is my I Spy, Housekeeping Edition – Buffet.
Some charms, an angel, a snowflake, a heat sink,
A hammerhead, a gun case, a plate that is pink.
Did you find them all? Do you have any I Spy surfaces in your house?
All the best to all of you for an uncluttered week.
Piper Bayard
My desk which is right off the kitchen can get like that! It’s seems to be a great landing place for all kinds of stuff!
I’ve gotten to where I designate a spot in the kitchen for such things.
I’ve got one near the couch. It’s the Sargasso Sea of catalogs, magazines and books. Once a month I dive in and move the stuff to the recycle bin and start again.
LOL. If you do it once a month, you’re gold.
The center counter in the kitchen is a catch-all. I can shovel it off every day, but it’s quickly piled under again with mail, dishes, hubby’s empty two-liters, and other assorted junk. An ongoing battle. LOL
Sounds like it has a life of its own.
LOL… I think you may be right!
Excellent!
Thank you.
Exactly the way my house works! LOL. Loved it.
LOL. Thank you.
I have several surfaces that tend to become I Spy locations! My husband says I should have been a librarian because I like stacks. LOL.
Cute! So is he the tidy one of the two of you?
“The tidy one” may be the understatement of the year. LOL.
I have to be honest. I’m a crazy neatnik. I get uncomfortable when my house gets cluttered. And yet.
It happens.
My bookshelves.
*shudders*
They have spread onto the box on my floor.
Where I keep my teaching stuff. It’s awful.
I let the basement fall apart, but the rest of the house is all connected — so I need it to be calm.
Which reminds me.
I’d better go straighten something. Probably.
I would love it if you would please visit me in time for my holiday party.
Nice rhyming there.
Thank you.
Fun! I think I found everything. My grandma collected baskets like a crazy lady and left them to me when she passed away, so my massive basket inheritance is strategically spread around the house to collect my family’s catch-all stuff. I think grandma would be proud.
Baskets are wonderful for that! Sounds like your grandma had a useful obsession. Much more useful than garden gnomes.
Oh, I love this! I could definitely come visit at your house.
Any time!
All I can say if that my wife has never heard the phrase “clean as you go.” It’s always interesting to find out whats under that stuff though. A bit like finding a long lost treasure at the back of your sock drawer
Cheers!
So true! It’s almost like I hide things from myself so I can be surprised by finding them later. How silly is that?
Every flat space in our house looks like this. My wife has a 9th dan black belt in clutter. The only room that isn’t is my writing office, as I am the anti-clutter ninja.
Would you mind dropping by my office sometime soon, please?
Very fun
(And comforting to see that my house isn’t the only one that looks that way!)