Spring Cleaning

Most everyone that has been to my home knows that the extra bedroom is effectively a walk-in closet for all of my collectables and gaming stuff. This is my man room done in the geek. Well, this room also seems to serve the whole family as a “junk room” that everything and anything that doesn’t have a home gets thrown in. This “out of sight out of mind” mentality inevitable leads to me having to spend a whole day cleaning the room about once every six months or so. Since I basically have the week off I decided that I would clean the whole house today. I started by cleaning in the living room. Before very long there were several piles of stuff that needed a new home. It quickly became apparent that I would have to clean out the “game room”. To make a long story short, my efforts in the living room were quickly abandoned so that I could clean up “my room”. My god were did all of his crap come from! The closet is now officially stacked to the ceiling with boxes, my walls are filled up with my “Star Wars wallpaper”, and I don’t think that I have any shelf space left (or anyplace to put a new shelf for that matter). I rediscovered many long lost items that I apparently just cannot live without (I did throw away three bags worth of trash). Here is a list of the some of the surprises that I found:

-- Games Workshop packaging from the late 1990s. (I actually kept one of the boxes)
-- Figures for almost every 40K army (when the hell did I get a box of Tau Fire-warriors)
--Dragon Dice (oh, how nice. Now put that back on the shelf for another 6 years)
-- Lego Darth Vader
-- About 5 empty cans of spay paint (and I saved these because….)
-- Huh, that’s were my wife’s scrap booking stuff went.
-- About 15 fake pumpkins.
-- 3 Odyssey gaming shirts (thought I had given these to Nate and Ricky)
--Multiple Axis and Allies pieces.

After only seven hours I had the room wiped into shape. How did I get all of this crap? I have to admit that it's totally out of control. Good thing it’s clean now, because our group needs a new place to play (the floor is clean and the middle of the room is ready to set up a table). Now I just have to explain to my wife why the living room is still destroyed.

Here’s some picks of the final product.