What's the junkiest room in your house?

[hesitantbride]

And by junkiest I mean cluttered.

Our house is small (less than 1000 sq ft). We don't have a basement, but we do have this small second story/attic that essentially acts as our storage room.

DH and I have made some strides (in spurts) over the past 2 years to try to clear out some of our stuff. We have a huge paper problem--we have a ton we need to get rid of. There is also a bunch of stuff (random old printers, technology, linens, etc) that we never use but can't seem to give away. Well, really it is DH who doesn't want to give them away. We often get presents we never use. This week, I returned some things to some stores and got $70 back in cash and another $50 gift card (at World Market).

This morning I am taking some things to Goodwill.

Inspire me with your stories of your most cluttered/junkiest room.

[sailorgray]

Our basement. We get so depressed going down there. We take one day each year to clean it and we feel so much better. It needs to be done again. We are given so much stuff and it ends up there. It is very overwhelming.

[Susie]

The basement is definitely the most cluttered. Boxes, etc. piled up everywhere. We're working on it, mostly by buying plastic shelving to hold tools and camping gear, but it's a slog.

[mrsreynolds4]

(lurker chiming in...)

My basement storage room. At one point you could tell it had nice shelving. I don't have a kitchen pantry, so it also doubles as that.

I was looking for something & found out that a mouse had chewed through DS2's (12yo) folded baby blanket. Since it was folded, there are giant holes in the middle. That got me in gear to clean it out.

While cleaning yesterday, I found where it/they had got into a big thing of flour. I thought it would be OK sealed in plastic & unopened - nope.

After today, the storage room will be shiny, and my basement office will be redone.

[Deleted]

Our laundry/utility room. It's our only area for storage. We don't have a garage or basement. I hate even going in there right now. It was an addition to the original house and it wasn't built very well (the engineers here would have a fit over it I'm sure). It has carpet and the cats have pretty much ruined it. As soon as we can afford it we will be ripping up the carpet, reinforcing the floors with additonal floor joists and putting down low maintenance tile. It has been the laundry area, cat litter box area, tool storage area, junk storage area. Everything. My exercise equipment is even out there! We finally bought a shed this spring so many of the tools have moved out. We still need to install a shelving system in the shed and when that is done it will be able to store even more.

My goal is to eventually have the room strictly for laundry/ironing and cat stuff.

[kaylie]

Our formal living room. We're using it for random storage while we paint and unpack. We've been there for three months but I promise that room will be a train wreck for a year. We don't have anything to put in it yet and it's not a critical living space. If we have a party, I'll probably just throw a tarp up or something equally trashy.

[thewop]

The "dog's" room. It's pretty much a dressing room for me. There are 2 dressers jammed with clothes, with additional clothes piled on top, a bed and a dog crate. We also have 1000 sq ft, so I try hard to keep the clutter to a minimum. My H is a slight pack rat, but I'm slowly getting rid of things without him knowing, he has yet to notice some stuff is gone. LOL. He seriously still has clothes from HIGH SCHOOL that don't fit him and are terribly dated. Yeah, I'm slowly donating pieces here and there mixed in with my stuff.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Our office. In a 10x10 room, we have two desks, two office chairs, two regular chairs, 3 bookcases, and at least 10 boxes of DH's stuff that he has no room to unpack. We're cramped, to say the least.

[binichic]

All of our rooms are pretty clean (DH and I are both a bit OCD)...it's all of our closets that need major help! Sometimes I feel like Monica on Friends with that junk closet of hers! haha

Our loft area/office isn't messy, but it's the room most in need of an update.

[mrsemilys]

Basement for sure. It's unfinished so we have random crap down there....when in doubt it goes in the basement.

[pitterwoo]

right this second it's the dining room. mail and papers have taken over the table! I'm hoping to reclaim the space this weekend.

[adhdfashion]

Our garage/studio H and I are still trying to learn how to work in the same space. LOL My creative process is messy and the studio seems to turn into a catch all for things around the house.

[bethaboo]

My husband's closet, by far. My apartment is pretty non-cohesive as it is. But his closet gives me hives just thinking of going in. He has boxes all over the floor, a guitar, photo albums (admittedly, those are mine), fold up chairs that he insists on keeping, empty boxes from various electronics.

[minniebee]

The office. That's the only room in the house H is responsible for, and it's a complete disaster. So bad that he works in the dining room instead. In fact, last weekend I kicked him out of the dining room to get ready for a dinner party, and when he was forced to work in the office, he whined that the office is so messy he can't stand being in there.

[aweilba]

Our "Gator Room," which is the guest bedroom. It has become a catch-all for anything we can't find a home for. It's not that bad, I guess. You can still see the floor, but if we're not having guests, there's usually stuff piled on the bed. Our home is seriously lacking on storage space.

[emoflamingo]

Since we decluttered a lot, it is the garage. Before that, it was probably our room. I had a bunch of totes of fabric at the end of our bed. It feels much bigger without that stuff in there!

[downtoearth]

It's a tie between the kitchen table and the laundry room. While the kitchen table isn't technically a "room" it is WAY more cluttered per square inch than anywhere else in the house.

We eat primarily at the dining room table, so the kitchen table is the "catch-all" for the whole house.

[lmdbww]

Our guest room. But we just moved and that's where I shoved everything that doesnt' have a home yet (until the painter comes next week).

[Deleted]

The eat in part of my eat in kitchen.
It's where everyone congregates throughout the day, so there's always paperwork, a random couple glasses, dishes from snack, etc.
Child also has a massive playroom in the basement but she's too little to be down there alone and H and I are not hang out in the basement people. As a result every toy we own is pretty much jammed in there..lol.

The rest of my house isn't too bad...I'm good about avoiding clutter and staying organized for the most part. Just don't ask me the last time I dusted a blind, washed a window, did floors vaccuumed!

[redheadk]

At the moment, it's a tie between our dining room and DH's home office.

Normally, it's just DH's office because he is a packrat and that is his room to display all of his crap (imagine a million books, travel trinkets, his extensive Star Wars collection, artwork, etc.). TG it has a door. I will say, though, that it is comfy and cozy.

Our DR is just bad at the moment because we had the rest of the carpet removed and wood floors installed in DH's office, (unborn) DD's nursery (that room was formerly the junk room), and our closet. The rest of the boxes of crap we packed up are waiting for me to go through them but at 40 weeks, 5 days pregnant, that is not happening for now. It will go back to normal in a few months, though. It was also the "baby staging" area during the rest of the construction in the nursery so there is some baby junk in there.

(BTW, my sn on TB was OUKatie if anyone remembers me)

[melew]

This is going to be a tie between the garage and our extra bedroom. Both need to be addressed ASAP because we are looking at getting a new and larger vehicle, so we need to clear space in the garage and the extra bedroom will be for a new baby in 9 months. Both tasks are quite daunting, but need to be done.

[Deleted]

Garage...a month ago it was the office but I totally cleared/cleaned it!

[ssmjlm]

Our office which is our smallest bedroom. It should be cleared and organized soon though as I've been on an organizing spree.

[prazenjc]

my living room/dining room, as it is the one we spend most of our time in and we have 3 bins for ds's toys there. we do pick up nightly, but it is the toy factor that clutters the space up for us. additionally, dh studies at the dining room table, so it has a lot of his books on it and we often fold our laundry there.

otherwise, we keep clutter down to a minimum b/c dh is a neat freak. it is a nice side benefit and atypica for most husbandsl, i know.

[statlerwaldorf]

We use our barn for storage. I just reorganized it, so it is actually pretty organized for once.

Mine would be my living room. My bookshelf is usually disorganized and the mail ends up there.

[Deleted]

Our guestroom. Since I take all the dresser/closet space in the master bedroom H uses the guest room as his room since we never actually have overnight guests. He never puts anything way. The bed is covered in his clothes, his suitcase from our last vacation (in April) etc.

[davescatch]

Ummmm - sometimes I think the clutter goes from one room to the next, never quite deciding on where it wants to live! Our attic is huge - and pretty full. Each of my bedrooms has a small walk-in closet that is pretty full. Basement is full of my husband's crap...I mean....really important stuff.

Basically it lives all over our house - the one room I keep pristine is our master bedroom.