Spring Cleaning

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Between louisadkins getting the rest of his stuff back from TX, cleaning being a good disciplinary action for the kids, and a general itch to get the house organized, we spent most of the weekend unpacking boxes and cleaning the house up.

All of louisadkins's boxes have been gone through now, and his books are all in line waiting to go onto the shelves. Ebon and catchild have a floor in their room again, and warinbear and I are working our way around our room. We've gotten two walls and their corners all taken care of; the other two walls, desk, and closet are next.

The books are an interesting situation. This is the first time that we have had, as a family, our entire book collection out at once. There are five copies of 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' back there, and we have a sizeable portion of the works of Piers Anthony. In triplicate. I'm going to go through and take books off of the shelves until we're down to two copies on the shelf of everything that we've got multiples of. The rest will get neatly packed in a box, where it will await us having more room, or, more importantly, more shelfspace.

This does not even address shelfspace for all the hardcovers. Wall space is going to be at a premium in this house. We're planning out where we can squeeze another bookcase or five once we get all the boxes out of the sunroom. Gaming books are going to take up at least another bookcase all by themselves, probably two.

CD racks are also going to be an important investment sometime soon. Then there are the DVDs and all the video and audio tapes that we own. Random electronic stuff, clothing, board games, kitchen stuff, we need to fit food into the house . . .

Five adults that have spent most of their lives accumulating stuff. Three kids. This is the first time that we've actually unpacked everything that we own and worked on putting it someplace other than back in a box. I think that when we build the expansion onto this house, we are probably going to want to seriously consider putting a basement under it, and an attic on top.

Standard housing in this country was not designed with eight people and all their posessions in mind.