Cloudy with a Chance of Organizing

It's an overcast cloudy day and oh so muggy.  So while at the dentist with my kids (who were all cavity free - YAY)  I was trying to think of things to do today and I just couldn't get the idea of cleaning out JJ's room which has essentially become the toy room.  I had organized it about 6 months ago, but it is in pretty bad shape now.  If anyone has any tricks to get kids to put toys back the exact way they found them - I'm all ears. 

Anyway I went to Wal-Mart to buy some organizing supplies and hopefully make it easier for the kids to keep the room a bit neater.  Although this is probably wishful thinking. Someday my wish is to have a wall of built in shelves that hold those oh so cute canvas baskets.  Yes, Mike and Steph  - I am jealous of your toy wall. 

I went upstairs  took a quick survey...

This is actually how I found the room - pretty sad :(

Then I did the dump - I took all the toys and dumped them in a huge pile in the middle of the floor.

The Dump!!

Not more than two minutes after I finished the dump - I received a phone call from the Call Center asking for showing for our house.  I think my heart stopped for a minute and then I realized she asked for a showing tomorrow - PHEW!!!  But still had a huge job on my lap and the rest of the house to clean, mow the lawn and fix the kitchen light that I broke this morning. 

More of the Dump!!

Here is the finished product.  I only left out the toys that they seem to play with the most.  3 bags of garbage and 5 bags of toys to give away. 

Now named the toy corner - contains all the main toys the boys play with.

And the book and game shelf - decorated with stuffed animals - and yes we have already given at least 100 stuffed animals to Goodwill.

After I gave a demonstration of how to properly put a book on the shelf and how the cars only go in the car bucket and so on - I put the kids to bed!!!

Now off to clean the rest of the house for the showing...