Spring Cleaning

As most of you know, I am a reality show junkie. I fill the DVR to the max with all kinds of reality drama and it drives one of the 4FLEMZ crazy. :-P
Today, I was reminded of a show called 'Hoarders.' If you have never seen the show it is aired on A&E on Monday's and it's a fascinating look into peoples lives who have the inability to part with their belongings. Well, all 4FLEMZ should have been cast for their own episode of 'Hoarders' today.
We decided to take on some spring cleaning in the kids' play room. How's that for some Saturday fun?! I knew we should have called in the professionals for this organizing event. You could only imagine what we found during the process. The list of items included:

• a dried up orange peel behind a doll house (eewww)
• a used band-aid (double eewwww)
• a vending machine tattoo of a sailor chick on an anchor (I think both males got a kick out of it)
• and countless toys from one end of the room to the other

We spent 1/2 of our day going through everything and parting ways with a lot of items. For the kids, it is out of sight out of mind. For me, I start recalling the memories associated to the items. (I AM A TOTAL HOARDER...I wonder where I get that from?) For the man of the house, it is all about getting down to business... it's on the list, let's get it done!

In the end, I will say we were able to control our hoarding tendencies to a minimum and I believe we all have the strength to recover and move onto the next room - the garage!!!
I respectfully did not post any photos of today's events just in case we get a call from A&E for the inside scoop. Do you enjoy spring cleaning? Have you ever stumbled across something unique during your cleaning process? Tune in next week for the newest reality show...Keeping up with the Flemings.