Basement Spring Clean Out!!!

Well we all know how this goes... i started my day of cleaning after feeding the little one... I go down into the basement with coffee in hand, look around and think " Where do I wanna start?"

Let's start with the enormous mess of tools that I have thrown all over the basement..

Sifting and sift ting through my tools "Hmmmm I don't remember buying this one, cool" after saying that about 10 times. I finally got them in order..

"what next" I think... maybe I will get all the stuff together I want to take to the dump... So now sits this gigantic pile of stuff to go buh bye to the dump...

WAIT !!!

Before I can say all this is going to the dump I have to pass it through the wifey, I don't want to be in the dog house if I throw something out that she wanted. Even if it's something from like 20 years ago lol.

In my scramble of getting this stuff in a pile "oh look, another tool I didn't know I had" It's like winning the freakin lottery today!!!

So here I sit writ ting this blog thinking, "I have to go back down to the basement and do some more before I have baseball practice tonight...

I will be back to give you some more interesting info on the things I find in my basement... I really hope I don't see any spiders or anything of that nature..

OK so I go back down stairs to continue my ventures of the basement.... I am going at a really good pace when all of a sudden I hear this huge crash, bang, boom, and smash. Only to turn around and see that a 5 high stack of totes just came crumbling down. At the same time the power went out,not only in my house, but the entire neighborhood was out.. Now that's not really that bad. What was really bad was,
My wife has this picture that( I don't know how old it is ) but it is very old. The problem with this is the picture looks just like she did when she was a child. I mean spitting image.. Well seeing that this was on top of the stack of totes. YUP!!! It fell on the cement floor first and totes right on top of it. (that was the big smash) . So after I swallowed my adams apple. I started to move the totes only to see that the glass had shattered, the frame was busted and the picture was laying on the floor.

Now seeing that the power was out I packed all 3 kids up and went up to where my wife works.. I had to get a few things there anyway. So I went to her office to let her know the bad news.. I told her the picture itself was fine but everything else was trashed... So now I have to put on my list of things to do ' repair my wife's picture '. I guess the basement cleaning will have to wait until tomorrow..