Completely Satisfied

I love our "toy room" aka, the closet/room underneath our stairs. I was so thrilled when we moved in to find out that I wouldn't have to store the toys in the middle of the living room, but that they could still be close by when the kids wanted to get them out to play. While we were unpacking, we mostly just threw all the toys in the toy room. It looked like a hurricane had been through there. There was no order. And it stayed that way for awhile, until I couldn't stand it anymore.

I had contemplated having Aaron make some shelves, but he didn't really want to. Finally I convinced him that I should buy some more white bins (I love my white bins) and that would help the problem. We took our large basket out of there, it was great in our last living room, but wasn't really functional in the toy room because it was an awkward fit. Then I organized one night while the kids were asleep, and wha-la. I am completely satisfied.

AND the kids have been pretty good about putting toys away in the drawers. In our new set of bins, I don't make them put certain things in certain drawers, that's WAY too complicated. I have learned that if I want them to put the toys away, then I just have to be happy with the fact that all the toys are in a drawer and not on the floor. :) The toys in the tall stack of bins are arranged specifically, but those are things like blocks, puzzles, the train, etc. that we only get out one drawer at a time, so that's not hard to keep organized either because they have to put the drawer away before they can get out another.