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Let’s play.

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Just in case you’re bored and have nothing better to do.

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We have a closet next to our hutch.

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And like the junk drawer in our kitchen, it’s my guilty secret. When I don’t know what to do something, or other proper storage areas are full?

I cram it in the closet of shame.

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There are tools and Tupperware.

Batteries and basting sauce.

Flashlights and flour.

Mayonnaise and markers.

A crockpot and crazy glue.

There’s no rhyme or reason…wood stain is next to beef broth and egg noodles rest on a tube of epoxy.

Once a year I organize and rearrange, but it doesn’t last long. Chaos wins every time.

And if the shelves are nuts, the tiny floor isn’t much better.

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It’s crammed with 50 lb bags of bird seed, fox food, deer grain and now duck pellets. Which, by the way… the ducks don’t like and won’t eat.

My name is River, and this is my closet of shame.

How about you?

What brings shame to your household….

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41 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

      1. I thought we got rid of all our stuff when we went full-time RV. Turns out I just traded it for different stuff. Most of it in that aforementioned junk bunk! You know, the one that is supposed to be a bed for company?

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  4. My desk is my hot spot. Anything paper and everything related to my creative processes end up on my desk or in the vicinity. Since we are playing I will claim it as my desk of shame, but I have done beaucoup work around releasing shame so I’m not ashamed of it anymore. It’s where my external brain sits and everything is in *a* place that I can find.

    My name is Siouxsie and this is my desk of shame.

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  5. My bedroom/workshop/military industrial complex could be shameful if it wasn’t so incredible. It’s got two computers, five guitars, a whole slew of wargaming stuff and a couple 3-D printers in case I need some more. There are lots of craft supplies, some purchased and others scavenged. Cathy keeps some stuff in here as well, for polymer clay and candle making.
    There are a couple hundred books more or less, mostly history and engineering, shelved for best fit and a bunch of tchotchkes in all the little spaces.
    The posters and little bits of memorabilia on the walls, mostly unframed, make it kinda like looking around at the inside of my head.
    My room, myself. Every great story deserves a great soundtrack and mine comes out of four studio monitors with a 400W receiver driving them. The shame there is how seldom I can really open them up and let the music all the way out. This is all behind one door, mind you.
    This would make a good post, yeah yeah, blah blah blaaaaaaaah. Who knows?

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  7. We have a giant bookcase we haven’t dusted in for-ever. The rest of the house gets dusted…but neither one of us want to move everything off of the bookcase to give it a real, proper dusting (along with its contents of course). However, there are negotiations currently underway to take on the project in the near future.

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  8. Like you I have not a junk closet but a junk room. One of the spare bedrooms began as a workout room for me, it was nice and clean and only had my two of my shoe racks and my treadmill. Then it grew a magnet and has attracted all kinds of stuff I have no idea where to store. I have a clothes rack, a small table, boxes of…stuff. Extra dinning chairs, blankets on top of those chairs and so much other “stuff” I can’t remember.

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    1. When we lived down south we had no basement… water table too high… and no attic.. too damn hot. We had to rent a stupid storage unit to store everything. What a nightmare that was.

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  9. When the cat knocked a water glass into the junk drawer last year (undoubtedly deliberately), I had to clean it out. For a decade, there was shame. Now I want to post a picture of how lovely and organized it is! Currently my front planters are bringing shame upon me (I have a knee injury and cannot garden).

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      2. When we moved back to Maine from North Carolina I was thrilled. We had a 2,000 square foot basement! A 2 car garage with overhead storage! A wood shed with an anteroom! A baby barn/shed!
        They are now all packed to capacity as is the upstairs of the monster two story barn we built.
        Lesson learned? When you give your pack rat hoarding husband space… he will fill it.
        😩

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  11. I can’t answer that. I have no idea what shame is.
    But Gail would say, for her it is me. I believe in living casually, while she was taught a place for eveything, and evetything in its place. She used to try to get me to live her way, but she failed. If a house doesn’t look and feel lived in, I don’t want to be there. Chaos reigns. And I don’t apologize for this. It isn’t the way I was btought up, but it is how I feel at home. She sees mess, I see love.
    Besides, with 5 cats, there’s always something out of place.
    MEOW!

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    1. No one ever said our house didn’t look lived in, but I can’t abide scattered mess. Coats go in the coat closet, magazines in the magazine bucket… it’s a simple concept, and as long as my husband has huge areas I don’t have to see ( the basement, the top floor of the barn) to dump his junk? We’re both happy.
      😉

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  12. We have about 17 gazillion baskets in this house many of which are those kitchy Longaberger baskets that I used to buy at those tedious parties I went to. Although a few of the baskets are useful, they were overpriced. Yep, a source of shame.

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