The Baby Room

I think that for most people getting “The Baby’s Room” ready is a fun event. They pick out furniture while imagining that soon there will be a baby in that room, the one element that starts or completes a family. There are cute baby things to pick out, fun colorful things to hang on the wall and tiny clothes and accessories to put in the furniture.


For me it is just feels like more work. I have no desire to pick out cute sheets and hang stuff on the walls. I don’t want to go shopping and spend a ton of money on a room and clothes that the baby will outgrow very soon. I see the price tags of stuff and freak out. (Forty-six dollars for one baby shirt?!! I usually don’t spend that much on my shirts and I can wear them for YEARS!!!)

I don’t want to figure out where the furniture that is currently in that room is going to go. Of course, I know that this is my fault. If I had bothered to get my butt in gear and clean out the front bedroom anytime in the last 2 years this wouldn’t be so much of an issue. But I didn’t and so now here I am, about 3.5 months until baby’s arrival, getting bigger every day and now trying to get the baby room ready. I don’t want to add one more thing to do to our to-do list

I could just throw out the two pieces of furniture that are in that room and start setting up baby stuff and then it would be done. But since Brian and I don’t want to throw out the futon and filing cabinet I need to organize and de-clutter the front bedroom so we have somewhere to move the before mentioned furniture.

We are in the process of putting in a closet organizer (in the front bedroom) and that should help immensely but that, like all the projects with our house, has turned into something bigger than just taking stuff out of the closet, putting in the organizer and putting stuff back in the closet. The moneys who were trying to “flip” our house did the fastest, cheapest (read crappy) job they could to try and fix things in the house to get it ready to sell. So, now we need to take out the closet rods and the homemade crappy rod holders and paint the closet. And since we haven’t taken out the rods or holders yet, I am quite sure that there will be something wrong with the walls under the rod holders that will explain why the rod holders that are in there are in there.

Even with all this in mind, I am hoping to have the organizer in by Friday so that over the weekend I can start putting stuff in the closet. And I realize that the process of painting and all that won’t add that much time to this project but I am sick of starting something that should be quick and finding out, again, that there are five more steps to do because the dorks who had the house before us couldn’t be bothered to learn how to do anything correctly. They just figured out a way to cover stuff up. I am starting to hate our house.

Also adding to the dragging out of this situation is that fact that I am not good at getting rid of stuff. I love it when the house is clean and all the clutter is throw out. I love the way rooms look when they have less stuff in them. I like my rooms to look cozy and lived in and streamlined and clutter free. But I seem to collect stuff and then I don’t want to get rid of it because it seems I always have some great plan to do something with whatever is it. And I rarely do. I am starting to think this is a problem.

I can recognize that, for the most part, if most of the stuff that was in the closet disappeared I would have no idea what was missing and probably never miss it. Yet here I am still holding on to whatever it is. And now, as I am sitting here writing this, I think to myself, why don’t I just go and throw it out? And I want to, now. But as soon as I see the boxes I can’t do it and I feel the need to open the boxes and go through them, because what if there is really something in there that I need? Or is valuable to me in some way? UUGGGGGHHH.

I wonder how much it costs to hire one of those people who can come to your house and help you de-clutter. Oh, never mind, it wouldn’t matter…I am too cheap to hire someone to come tell me what I already know and can do by myself if I would just suck it up and do it. (I mean really, if I am too cheap to buy cute baby clothes…)

Anyone what to come over for pizza and help me de-clutter this weekend?