A couple weeks ago we decided to have a garage sale. In preparing for the garage sale, we decided to "gut" our toyroom. Here is what it looked like last spring after we moved it...and it looked worse a month ago...
The first step was moving every single toy out of the toy room. It completely inundated our family room/kitchenette area...along with boxes of clothes I was going through. It was such a disaster, I had to capture it on the camera.
Here's a closer view. What you can't see is all the barbie clothes and shoes, polly pockets clothes and shoes, brats clothes and shoes, baby doll clothes and shoes, etc. mixed inside the pile. Now, they weren't in the toy room like that. We had the girls dump out each of the individual totes into a pile because they needed sorted through anyway.
Then Brian finished the drywall in the playroom, and Kilz'd the cement walls, then painted everything. He had installed some flourescent lighting to brighten up the room a couple months back.
Then Brian loaded up 10 garbage bags and boxes full of toys to take to the dumpster. Only God and Brian knows what were in those boxes! The rest he (and I helped a little after my garage sale project was over) weeded out and sorted into their appropriate containers again. Barbies, Polly Pockets, Brats, Dolls, Loving Family pieces, Stuffed Animals (3 totes and 3 garbage bags), dress-up, Leap Pads, etc etc. I decided that we didn't need 65 barbies, so I weeded through and threw 25 away, gave 15 to Grandma and Grandpa's house, and kept the rest... I think we have about 75 Polly's too, but we kept all those...they don't take up much space. :)
Anyway - here's what it looked like when we were through! (there ARE toys on the shelves that we can't see in this pic - and they each have a bunch in their bedrooms)
An X-box, karoake machine, Star Station, V-Smile, 25 Barbies, 75 Polly's, 25 Bratz, 50 Baby Dolls, a stereo w/ DVD and VCR and 100+ movies, books, dollhouses, Zoobs, American Girl Dolls, play kitchen, - what more could a girl want?
