Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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........
 
 

26 comments:

  1. How fun I have lots pictures of my messy studio however no post on it, just did a Pretty post about the Ball at The Polka A dot Closet

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  2. LOL Danni - highly flammable - get that pumpkin out of there and somewhere safe -
    and at this point please just paint it lmho!!!
    XOX

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  3. Oh Danni...At least our crap makes other feels good about themselves. LOL love the cookie press storage.... please dont eat cookies with chemicals :P funny!

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  4. I got stuck at the mysterious Budweiser .... Lol!!! I love these posts, maybe I should write one, but you guys might head for the hills! Danni. Please. Fix. Your. Laundry. Room. :-)

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  5. I am STILL WINNING!!! I HAVE THE MOST CRAP!! My mom will be so proud.

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  6. hahahaha! Those cute storage pictures kill me!!!! I don't want to get rid of all the containers and crap I already have so that I can spend more money to buy matching containers - I need SOLUTIONS! lol Let me know what you pin :)

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  7. Everyone is going to be looking for green flower beer bottle openers now. I can see them as belt buckles for men, and hair bows for women. I say send it to the Duck Dynasty guys.

    Bliss

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  8. This was what my basement workroom and storage area looked like a few months ago except a much larger mess. It took me a couple of weeks, but the mess was conquered! Turns out I have an old license plate collection that I didn't know about. I've still not gotten around to making it look pretty, but the mess is less.

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  9. I am so in sync with this post...I have done the I-will-paint-it-up-pretty-someday-but-for-now-just-let-me-fill-it-with-crap thing a million times. What's wrong with us? Great post, love all the entries!

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  10. We have the same cookie press and vacuum ;), and LOL at the Swiffer spot. Mel had a great laundry room makeover post up once. She did an awesome job if you haven't pinned it yet. :)

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  11. Okay, I think y'all flummoxed me somehow into revealing Horror Monster's true self. Did Chucks put you up to this? I bared my very junk soul! The only two close were Ms. Flibberigibbet and Kirby! Now i am gonna have to organize all this mess. AND I have NO Bud sitting around for liquid support. (Though, Danni, I truly would not drink that - you may have stored something in there!

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  12. I'm not sure that you should be allowed at this party...that looks pretty good to me...I mean, I can see the floor and everything..does this count? I think I've been tricked...thank goodness I didn't show my studio like poor Donna did (snicker). I notice Bliss stuck to her purse.....big chicken.....
    Heading over to Kirby's house for some REAL mess......

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  13. Danni! Your mess, your junk in the trunk, well, it looks pretty good to me. You should see my laundry room. Shudder.

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  14. "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!" hahahahahahahahahahaha! Love this post! I love this party! Great share Danni! pssst. I refuse to turn the light on in my laundry room....it's that bad! ;)

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  15. Once or twice a year my friend and I dress up in costumes, break into people's houses, and place random cans of Budweiser in odd spots. I can't really remember what started that tradition.

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  16. I'm surprised your pumpkin isn't moldy yet! I have a few gourds and pumpkins sitting in a box outside in a protected area that have turned...you would have thought the cold would preserve them. lol
    Awesome post, Danni! (and I forgot to do mine)
    Debbie :)

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  17. Hahaha Danni - you are hilarious!!! I like the flammable shelf!!!! And the pumpkin - oh the poor lonely pumpkin!

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  18. I love this Danni! I laughed, I cried. This room touches every emotion. Lol! I cannot wait to see how you transform it.

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  19. I can't decide if I'm more impressed with the pumpkin waiting to be turned gourmet or the parts for a long gone vac. No, I think it's the artful blend of toxic, alcoholic and food groups. In the decorating business, we call that creating tension. I'm sure the possibility of being poisoned or catching fire does that very well. Still, you laundry room is neater than mine!

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  20. Sooo funny Danni! I have things waiting for makeovers too. Can't wait to see your laundry room makeover. I just added my TICT post, better late than never I say.

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  21. Pffftttt......such amateurs. My junk was so bad I couldn't even find my camera to post my junk. Cheers Danni!

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  22. The can of Bud is to rinse your hair with. But then again, why is it here and not in the bathroom.

    Ann
    thejardinencantado.blogspot.com

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  23. With a Bosch washer and dryer, no one is going to be looking at anything else. That is, unless they are beer drinkers. My husband says losing so much as a one can of beer is a definite sign that one must reorganize even if it is Budweiser.

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  24. Hi Danni, lololol!! Your pics,descriptions and reasoning are just hysterical, I'm still laughing. Love the flammable shelf and the swifter duster hose holder!! How long can a pumpkin last before molding? I still have a gourd from last Thanksgiving, myself!

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  25. Yeah, I want to know how long a pumpkin can actually last too. I thought your room wasn't too bad. Did you ever see my laundry room before pictures? THOSE were bad! This is a great link up and I am looking forward to seeing other peoples junk posts!

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