Monica's Closet

I have a dirty little secret.

I know I've quoted and chatted about 'Friends', my favorite TV show of all time, before. I watched it religiously when it first ran when I was in high school and I faithfully watch re-runs now. I just can't get enough. For whatever reason it just never gets old! Anyway, if you've watched 'Friends' you may know that Monica is OCD; she can't handle anything out of place and is fanatical about it. On one episode one of the friends exposes her secret: a messy closet full of junk!

In the first years that we met, as well as the first year or so of our marriage Brandon constantly called me Monica. Just for background I acquired my OCD from my mother who is worse than I am. Thankfully (because really who can be like that forever....other than my mom) I have relaxed, a little, and can accept that being a full time mom, having a full time job, running my own business and doing all the other things I do that sometimes things will be out of place.

If you stop by my house on any given day you'll probably find it pretty tidy. I try, I really do, to keep it kept up. Unfortunately there is one room that has become Monica's closet. Everyone has something like this, right? A drawer, a closet, a room? I know you do! Are you ready? Here is mine:

Now, you have to realize, I took 8 large bins of stuff out of it yesterday so this is better than sometimes. I know, sad right?

There are a number of reasons why this room exists this way:

1. I need at least one place to "throw" stuff when people are coming over unexpectedly
2. We have not sat down and created an actual plan for the office and transformed it into a working, functional space (please help HGTV!)
3. It was just Christmas and it's easy to hide stuff in here (Good luck finding your gift amongst everything else kids!)
4. I don't have enough time...

And so with our finishing projects this year hopefully many of the things that get thrown in this room will have a place to live in our shed and I can finally create a functional, workable space that won't have to be a secret anymore.