Fun Monday - Oh, No, I am naked...

For this Fun Monday challenge, and I do mean challenge, Swampwitch of Anecdotes, Antidotes, and Anodes has asked to see bookshelves and where we put things out-of-sight when company comes.

For me this Fun Monday exercise is the most intimidating because Swampy has asked to see what we normally hide. So with great fear and trepidation, I will show some of our bookcases and my hide-stuff-from-the-guests places. I have decided on an abbreviated version of this Fun Monday for a few reasons. The main reason is that we are currently on vacation in Virginia. Second, if you have seen one of our bookcases, you have seen them all. Third, the same is true of our messes. If you have seen one mess, you have seen them all .

This is our living room bookcase. The furniture is Ethan Allen that belonged to my parents.

The door in the left of the picture opens to a closet where I store bedding for our fold-out couch, and the top shelf has cleaners and poisons hidden from guests and small children.
There is another closet in the living room that holds coats, games, a vacuum cleaner, photos, and old vinyl records.
Moving on to our basement, which is partially finished, meaning that there is wood paneling on the walls, and the concrete floor is uncovered. Our basement houses a variety of things including the washer and dryer. When our sons were young, we used part of the basement as a family room. As they grew to adulthood and moved out of the house, we turned one bedroom into a family room, and the other bedroom is our computer room. The basement became a room for storing stuff. You undoubtedly notice the cheerful Christmas stockings decorating this bookcase. You may be thinking, "Oh, this picture was taken at Christmas." Nope, the picture was taken last week in preparation for Fun Monday.

Do NOT be frightened for what you are about to see.

If you turn 90 degrees to the right, you will see this horrific mess. Before you think that I am a horrible slob, which is probably true, there are reasons (excuses) that the basement is so messy. One is that the basement leaks or seeps water when we have torrential downpours, which happens about once a year. Thus, things are quickly moved off the floor during storms. Another reason is that the basement is storing a few things for other family members. The third reason is that some of the mess comes from stacks of clothing and coats that are waiting to washed for two giveaways at our church. So there is a glimpse into my methods of storing stuff. As you can see, I am more like Ambrose Monk than his brother Adrian Monk. Ambrose stores all kinds of valuables or most would call it crap. Visit Swampwitch to see how other people display what they want people to see...and what they do with the other junk.