Moving piles

I think that sometimes all I'm doing while cleaning is making one room look nice, and destroying several others in the process.

The dining room is now nice and tidy ... however, I now have to clean my office area, my bedroom, and the kitchen to totally "finish" the cleaning of the dining room because of the piles of "all this stuff belongs over there, and all that stuff goes upstairs."

Every once in awhile I miss the days when we moved so often we didn't really accumulate a "life" of stuff ... because I could keep my entire house really clean.

Or maybe if we were all just more boring and less interested in so many different types of things that grow into their own piles of stuff.

And while I like the idea of living in a multi-story house, I think overall keeping a single level is easier for me to maintain.

My friend and I have oft discussed the desire for a few thousand dollars that was unneeded for anything else simply to spend on organizational items ... matching rubbermaids and closet organizers ...

I dream of a day when all my stuff will have actual places it belongs in my home and not kind of float around pretending to live in the dining room until I move it to a corner of my bedroom while I wait for a spot on the basement shelf to become available.