Sunday afternoon I decided that Alex’s closet was cluttered enough to be deemed Officially Hazardous, so yesterday I spent most of the morning sorting through old books, old clothes, old toys and old shoes.
And in case you’re wondering if I took a picture of the final product, well, OF COURSE I DID.
Now granted, you can only see one side of closet in the picture, but the other side of the closet is cleaned out, too. And besides, do you notice THAT WHOLE BIG SPACE WITH NOTHING ON IT?
I’m telling you: that whole big space with nothing on it is one of the crowning achievements of my life.
Or at least of my life in, you know, May.
And ever since I finished working in that closet, I have been on what my mama would call a RIP IT. I’ve stripped beds, mopped floors, cleaned bathrooms, washed and put away about eight loads of laundry, and I’m about to tackle my baseboards as soon as I post this because I believe it’s been well-established that I am an all-or-nothing girl, so as far as I’m concerned I can either clean my house until it shines or sit on the couch, eat Cheetos and watch HGTV.
And today I choose to clean.
But tomorrow there’s an excellent chance that the Cheetos will win.
(Now please hold for one second while I mop.)
(I’m not even kidding.)
(I’m making you sort of tired, aren’t I?)
(IMAGINE WHAT A DELIGHT IT IS TO LIVE WITH ME!)
(Okay. I’m back now.)
Anyway!
At some point in my massive housecleaning extravaganza, I decided to tackle the bar in our living room, and I kept finding CDs tucked away in drawers. And after I happened upon about the ninth CD, I was all, Why do I have all these CDs taking up valuable storage space? Couldn’t I be using this space much more effectively? Like to store Windex? Or Pledge? Or Clorox? Or some other cleaning product that would help me to maintain the completely unattainable level of clean that I am striving for over the next two days before I get back on the couch and eat Cheetos again?
Oh, make no mistake, people: I am a CARNIVAL of insanity.
So!
I now have this stack-o-CDs that I don’t really need anymore because they’re either a preview copies someone sent me or they’re left over from a giveaway or they’re already on my iTunes or someone is sneaking into my house at night and leaving stray copies of contemporary Christian music in random drawers behind the bar in my living room.
Regardless!
I’d love to send one of you the whole stack-o-CDs. There are probably eleven or twelve CDs in the stack right now (Third Day, Leeland, Casting Crowns, Matt Redman, etc. and so on and so forth), but that number could increase as I clean out additional drawers in additional areas of the house where I’m doing some additional cleaning.
CAN ANYONE TELL THAT I’M HOME ALONE TODAY?
So if you’d like to win, just leave me a comment and tell me so. I’ll close the comments sometime tomorrow morning and then select a winner using random.org.
Please know that my crazy and I thank you in advance for your participation.
And have a great day, y’all.
This giveaway is now closed.
I would love me some Boomama music!
i would lurve me some boomama musical cds!
and, you know what? the fact that my doctor has put me on bed rest only adds to the vicariousness that i live through you and your cleaning, boomama.
thank you, thank you very much.
also? faboo job on howard’s closet. i bet he jumped up and down and clapped his hands realllllll hard when he saw it, huh?
Oh, I could totally use some new music! Congrats on the cleaning spree – I had a bit of a cleaning bug this weekend but it seems to have fizzled out … I need to catch it again!
we’re moving in a month, so the last thing i REALLY need is a stack of new cds. on the other hand, i need some music to inspire me to the heights of cleaning greatness that you have achieved today. :)
You love some good music and I would NEVER turn down a free offer here at the Boomama site ;-)
I’m always looking for new tunes. Count me in!
I’ve always enjoyed your music suggestions, so yeah! Send some my way!
oh yeah – sign me up for some BooMama music!
Well, did you clean the track of the back door? Because Saturday – that was my task :) Along with cleaning the garbage can and the refrigerator handle. Oh I do love Mr. Clean Magic Erasers.
I’m glad to know there are other people in this world with as much cleaning crazy as me. And we all know music and cleaning are the perfect pair. I hope you have your own music playing nice and loud while you’re compulsively cleaning.
CDs–how fun! I’d love to win your clutter.
I would love to have the CDs!! It’s hard to find Christian music here on Guam and some download sites won’t work since we aren’t on the Mainland. I’ll even give you my mother’s address in Tupelo, MS so you won’t have to pay to have them shipped to the other side of the world!!
Enter me!
Okay… I’d LOVE to win some great music, but if I can’t win that… can I win some inspiration to get off my hiney instead? Good grief, you’ve gotten a lot done!
I would love some new music! (and those sound like great selections.) Thanks!
Shelley
Pick me, pick me! Or don’t pick me and just come over and go crazy over here with your clorox and windex, et. al.
I just got my FIRST ipod and would LOVE to have those CD’s to download on my little gadget! Please enter me!! Laurie
What a great idea. I’d love to win. We should all do a giveaway with what we find in our closets and drawers. Surely someone out there wants the stuff I cluttering up my place.
oo that is totally how I clean.. could we be sisters? I do it with everything.. yardwork, cleaning, organizing, exercising, reading.. you get the point.. do you think there is anything out there to help us..
Ok, maybe some new music is just what I need to get my butt moving around here to have a house that sparkles like Boomama’s! Count me in.
I’ve been doing same thing since we got back from camping so I’ll see your crazy and add a slight twitch.
Would love CDs to ease the pain!
I would love some awesome music! :)
ooo… ooo … ooo! Me! Me! Me! I never win a thing, but girl… I am with you on the RIP IT! LOVE it when the house is clean and THEN I can eat cheetos too! How fun is it to give away your junk too? I mean.. your cool CD collection? And how weird is it that I am the 114th person asking for it? But the girl in Guam might deserve to win more than me… I’m just sayin’.
I haven’t bought music (CDs or digitally) in so long, I could use some new tunes!
I’m always up for some free Christian music! Sign me up
I’d like to have the cds:) I’ve been cleaning and packing to move and finding lots to get rid of. We’re planning to have a yardsale soon, which is wearing me out just thinking about it!
sign me up! I love Christian music!
I would love to discover some new to me artists. This sounds like it would be the perfect opportunity.
I could use some new music to listen to. I don’t shop for CD’s much and don’t own an ipod. I would love to be entered in your giveaway.
Sign me up! And Thanks!!
I have the same kind of crazy, my husband says it must be a Mississippi thing.
I would love me some Boo Mama organization misfit CDs.
The Park Wife
I’d love to win some new Jesus music! Thanks!
Alex’s closet looks great! You have great taste in music (I’ve enjoyed listening to the artists and songs you’ve recommended on your blog), so I’d love to win these CDs! Thanks!
oooo, i’m always up for new music! send it to me!!
Ohhh!! I need inspiration to clean my house! Some Jesus music might just be the ticket!!
thanks for the chance for free music!
Please random number generator…pick me!
I would love some BOOMusic in a give away!!
I would love to win, and I would love a clean closet. I think my chances of winning this contest are far better than my closet getting cleaned out anytime soon. Wendy Clark
clarksrfun@gmail.com
Do you have the oldest David Crowder cd? I would love any you want to get rid of!
I hope I win!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
What fun! I’d like to win. Happy Cleaning!
Have fun cleaning…and then relaxing tomorrow. I would love to win.
I’d love to win! Maybe that would inspire me to do the necessary cleaning for my place. :)
I would love to win the Cd’s. I could listen to them while I am unpacking and looking for things I might need at some point in life. Things like dishes, utensils, chocolate, and the list goes on.
I truly need to win this. Do you know that I have not bought myself any new music since my oldest was FOUR YEARS OLD? She is now sixteen. I only just now realized that, and now I am feeling all kinds of deprived. (I just realized that I have no music, not that my oldest is sixteen. I did realize that back in April.) Just think of the joy that you would bring to my life! The last CD that I listened to was “Elmopalooza”, and I almost stuck a fork in my eardrums so that I would not have to listen to Rosie O’Donnell sing anymore.
I’d love to win of course. I wish you could fly on over to Canada and help me clean and organize :)
You’ve almost inspired me to clean something.
I’m so in the drawing.
Pick me Boo Mama~
My Meemaw would say you were “cleanin’ (b/c she’s from TX) like a mad Jesse”. I’m not exactly sure who Jesse was or is, but it means you’re really goin to town with the cleaning!
Blessings to you Boo Mama–you crack me up and I’m not even kidding.
Jane
I LUV me some contemporary christian music!
Maybe it might inspire me to get off my couch, brush the orange cheeto fluff off my fingers and face and clean my house :)
what a nice prize. Thank you for your thoughtful gift.
I’d appreciate you counting me in–thank you!
Count me in!!
Would love to win!
The closet looks great! Way to go!
Have a blessed day!
Lori
If it’s good enough for the Boomama, it’s good enough for me. :) Thanks for the giveaway.
Sign me up for a Boomama Stack-o-music giveaway! Thank you.
I will never, ever say I don’t want to win! I’d LOVE to win me some new cd’s!!! That would be so delightful!
I could use some of the musical benefits erupting from your crazy. Can you come to my house next? I could use some OCD.
you rock, boomama :)
Some new music for the summer would be great! Thank you!
I could use them .. we’re a little short on them “coaster” things you put under drinks when you set them on the wood furniture.
The stains are REAL hard to get out of orange crate wood.
I’d love to win, and I love crazy! :)
Hey, sign me up for the draw!
I’d get you to sign me up for your binge of cleaning, but the commute to Canada is a little much.
Some new CDs sound good. Enter me please.
I’d love to win!
It’s a shame I only comment when you give stuff away. I hereby resolve to change that.
I’m pretty happy about all-the-crazy. It means I might win some sweet loot!
Yes. I would LOVE to win. Who knew that you cleaning could directly benefit one of us who will not likely ever set foot in your house due to geographical reasons :)
I’d love to hear some new-to-me music! And I know you have great taste and I’d love to benifit from your cleaning spree. Thanks for sharing!
You have excellent taste in music!! And since my crazy clean-out-the-toy-drawers-before-Mama-goes-absolutely-nuts fest from over the weekend resulted in little more that old Happy Meal toys and random “Hi Ho Cherry Oh!” cherries, I could use some cool clean-out-the-drawer CD finds! :)
I would love to be in on that drawing!!
You go girl with that Cleaning Crazy!!! I’d love to be the recipient of your organizational devotion! Be assured that I would share the cds with others, too!
mnatherson at comcast dot net
*bats her puppy-dog eyes* CDs would be lovely, BooMama. :) I’ll pay my own shipping, too!
Wow! How motivating! I would love to win some CDs. It’s been ages since I got any new ones and I never win contests! Organizing Junkie is hosting a basket carnival. She’s got lots of basket ideas going on. Check it out.
I like your brand of crazy! I was HOME ALONE yesterday and went on a frenzy. But it was finishing up room redecoration frenzy, I got a lot done but still not finished. I need some new music to load in my pod that I can clean/redecorate too!
Oh, oh, oh,…..I would LOVE to add to my collection. Thanks Boo Mama :)
Yes, please! I love me some tunes. Thanks!
Whoo hoo… me too! Does it come with cleaning motivation, cuz I could use me some of that! :-)
I would love to win!
Count me in! Mr. at Home bought me a brand spankin’ new pink iPod for our anniversary and I need some new music to fill it up!
Hey, Love some music, but if you can’t do Canada just delete this comment.
Hope your cleaning jag is almost over!
Glad you are tackling the cleaning!
I would love to win the CDs…to
add to my clutter!
Lois
I too love the high I get from a freshly cleaned house. I am convinced it is a sickness. Sounds like some great music!
Ooo – pick me, pick me!! :)
Congrats on your cleaning out things! Hard work but very satisfying! I would love a chance to win some great Christian music. Count me in…and thanks!
Oooh, fun! New music! Count me in…
YOU ARE NOT CRAZY!
I think I can speak for women all over America who do the exact same thing. (I hope). I don’t clean like that anymore but I sure as heck used to. Back when the kids were young and lived here with me. Cleaning frenzies in the spring and fall also. But won’t you feel good when you are done?? Somehow, you just have to be in the mood!
Sign me up for some free cd’s – boy the ones in my car are so used and abused.
Hugs,
Marie
p.s. I just love that Howard!! I am so sure he will keep that closet just like it is – clean and organized! lol
I’m cleaning too! and I too have found multiple cds – too bad they are my husbands and I haven’t been able to persuade him to give them away!!
Pick my number!!
Thanks – and I love your sense of humor – it makes me lol!
go state! (my parents live in starkville)
I don’t need to be in the giveaway (too much clutter of my own I’m trying to be rid of), but can you come to my house next?
Seriously.
I hope you had some Cheez-It Duo’s and a Diet Coke on Ice after all of that. Good job!
Oh, I am so there with you. But right now its the couch…not the clean.
I love that we are going to reap the rewards of your crazy!
Oh, please bring your cleaning frenzy over to my house while I sit on the sofa and eat cheetos! Sign me up for the CD giveaway, too!
I want to win!
Holy Moly. Your peeps like them some Christian music. And that’s why I’m here too. And I just love posts about the beauty of cheetos.
I would love to win your CDs! :) (And I am so glad you love Clorox, Windex and Pledge as much as I do!) ;)
I would love a great cd!
Thanks!
Emily
Me, me! Choose me!
:)
ooh ooh. Pick me! I’d love some new music!
my husband would love for me to win this!
I’m always up for some good music!
Oh, please, please, please come bring your crazy to my house and do the same for my closets and baseboards!!