Basement organization

so I only made it to two this week- I'll admit it saddens me to think that I didn't hit all my goals, but yet, I did blog twice! :) I will make it one of these days. Rome wasn't built in a day. But as promised, I wanted to discuss our basement organization in this post.

So had a leak in the grout in our bathroom. That is how it started. How long had it been there, we have no clue, other than a long, long time. Possibly before we bought the house. But moving on, leak= water damage which in turn when left unchecked leads to mold. Yup. Due to having a baby soon, we decided to take action (finally!). We redid our shower- same tub, new surround. It took a little over a week, but that was finished about two weeks ago now. Step one complete- fix leak. Step two- contain mold is now in order. And that is where we are at. The mold was mostly contained to one large area, and Jer has wiped down a good chunk of the basement with bleach water since we have gotten pregnant. But thankfully we found borax- works just as well at ridding and keeping mold away without the nasty harsh smell of bleach. (I am so ready to have bleach be out of our lives for good. I hate the stuff.) Being the overplanning, organizational freak of nature I am- I decided this is a great time for spring cleaning the basement. It's only about two months ahead of our normal spring cleaning schedule, and it never got done this past year. And what 8.5 month pregnant woman doesn't want to tackle a basement??? Steps, scrubbing, organizing all of our old things... yes. I'm nesting, but thankfully so is Jerry.

Our basement is set up in three rooms. The storage room which has furnace, water heater, water pump, and the under the stairs closet; the "study" (well, we thought it would be a great place to relax and such) which has all his hunting stuff, my books, organ, and is a fully finished room; and the main basement which is more of a den/game room type setting with a section at the bottom of the stairs with laundry, laundry tub, and freezer. Right now, we are focusing on cleaning/scrubbing the two small rooms- the study and storage rooms. We have gone through most of our stuff to decide what will be gotten rid of and what kept, and right now the main basement looks like a massive storage unit. It looks like a hoarder's house. It scares me. But this weekend the goal is to finish at least the study and move everything back in there. Then we move on to the storage room, and Christmas can finally be fully placed back in the under stair closet!! Yay! Hopefully this means by the end of March, when we normally would start our Spring cleaning, we can have the basement done. I would push for sooner, but with Oswald coming in there sometime soon I don't want to push too hard and fail. I'm pretty impressed with our progress so far, and hope to keep moving at a good pace. I'll keep updating as we get further along. And maybe even post some pictures!