The landfill...

...that was also known as Frodo's room, no longer resembles a landfill. You can actually see his carpet! And that reminded me that his room needs new carpet.

We put a LOT of stuff in boxes to keep it stored in the basement so it's out of his room, but still available if he wants it. However, in a bad mommy moment, I actually *meant* that anything he doesn't ask for within 12 months will be put out for a garage sale. He just has so much shit and his room is too small. I had to do SOMETHING. The kid is such a packrat that if I said we would be getting rid of anything, he'd keep EVERYTHING in his room. I kid you not. This is the same child that bawled his eyes out because he found out I did not keep every single scrap of paper he brought home from school. First grade alone created enough paper that had I kept it all, we would've had to build an addition just to store it.

I also put up a couple shelves on the wall so he has somewhere else to keep things. He's been putting together these Star Wars Legos like a little madman, but refuses to take them back apart. He wants to keep them together so he can play with them, and originally wanted to keep them all on top of his little dresser. (But that was only after I vetoed keeping them all on the kitchen table.) So I've added the shelves to give him more "display" space.

So for now, his room is known as "The Room Formerly Known as a Landfill". It will probably go back to being known as Landfill in time.