TONGUE IN CHEEK TUESDAY #3 - JUNK IN OUR TRUNKS

Welcome to Tongue-in-Cheek Tuesday #3, the Junk in Our Trunks edition.

  
It was not hard to choose the "trunk" where I keep my junk.  My house is actually quite clean most of the time...but  my laundry room, (actually since it's just a little hallway that I refer to as "the hall of shame", off of my kitchen, lets call it a laundry area), is where I keep my junk.  Lots of it. For all of the organizational tips the blog world has to offer (and I read a lot of them because I have really good intentions...if you wrote an organizational post, I probably pinned it) really, my laundry area should not look like this:

 Just so you know, I'm not going to edit these pictures, because pic monkey doesn't have an option to enhance this hot mess! Really, unless I'm throwing in a load of clothes, I try hard not to look in this area at all.  But....just for you, those of you with your cute wire baskets with chalkboard labels and drawers with awesome dividers, or neatly itemized bins....I'm going to take you in for a closer look, because maybe you'll give me some more tips to pin.  I need them...heaven knows, I need them. 

Let's talk about this deep-freeze portion of the laundry area for a moment.  First of all...those awesome funky gears on the front, my grandson hasn't played with in a year.  I've promised to mail them to my friend Melissa at Serendipity and Spice, so if you are blog friends with her, tell her you've seen them and they're in a safe place.  And...that funky green flower is the best beer bottle opener in the world...that bottom petal catches the cap because it's magnetic.  But..I'm just trying to distract you with the only awesome things back here..so you won't notice that for some reason, I keep my bread up on top of the deep freeze right along with some disposable pans that I'm saving for some pot-luck emergency.  That top shelf?  Did you notice that top shelf?  Yeah...in between 2 bottles of deadly chemicals is my coffee thermos and my Wilton Cookie Press.  Let's move on.....

Just to the right of my deep freeze is the hot water heater, which is really just a surface to put stuff on because the cute wire hanging shelves above it long ago got filled to the point of overflowing.  You will notice that there was an attempt to organize this area at one time because those matching white plastic baskets hold batteries, light bulbs and some other stuff that I don't know because I need a ladder to see in them.  I do love the way that hose on top of the water heater holds my swiffer dusters...man, you just can't plan that kind of good fortune!
Underneath that deep freeze.....

 Well....I keep my lunch coolers for when we're working at the creek, some extra paper towels, a mop bucket and yes...a pumpkin.  It's a real pumpkin that I harvested last fall and planned to make a Thanksgiving pie with and when i didn't, it was going to be an awesome pumpkin stuffing dish at Christmas, with Gruyere cheese and brioche, but now...well, I don't have a new plan for it yet.  If it molds before I come up with something, I'll toss it...promise.

 As further proof of my good intentions, a friend gave me this awesome chippy shelf and I pinned several ways I wanted to paint it.  I put wheels on the bottom of it so that I could move it around a little.  I never got around to any of the paint treatments I pinned because I immediately loaded it with more junk.  The bottom shelf is where I keep my chandelier lamp shades stacked, while I'm trying to decide what to cover them with.  Surely you can spot them in between the Little Green Machine fluids and the distilled water.  Up on the next shelf some butane, mason jars (I have a plan for those) mulitple bottles of bug spray, a gallon ziploc bag with some potting soil (just in case) and some Heet engine treatment, and here's a bonus....because I didn't know it was there until I just saw this picture....there's a can of Budweiser back in the corner!!  Neither my husband nor I drink Bud, so I have no idea why that's there.  But really, the flammability of just that shelf alone is frightening!  That tiny top shelf holds some vacuum cleaner attachments to a vacuum cleaner I no longer own.
I did not plan for this laundry area to be my junk room...just turned out that way.  When I bought that Bosch Washer and Dryer (the finest piece of German engineering money can buy......no wait, that would be a Mercedes Benz...but the Bosch runs a close second) I planned to have a laundry area worthy of it's presence.  Sooooooo.....stay tuned because a laundry area makeover is on the horizon!  Just as soon as one of you inspires me just enough.   In the meantime.....
Link up your own Junk in My Trunk post below and enjoy reading a few posts from  some of the other awesome bloggers who aren't afraid to poke a little fun at themselves........