I've spent the past week finishing up projects and doing a bunch of late-summer cleaning, and it struck me that the whole organization/de-cluttering thing is really futile. This time we managed to get the entire upstairs cleaned, including the teenager's room, and that takes some doing. Three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, an office, dining room, great room, kitchen, kitchen nook, foyer, and laundry room, all clean, all organized. Plus the garage, the porch, and the deck. Downstairs, in the basement, we cleaned up the bar, the media area, the game area, the two bedrooms, and the bathroom.

BUT, deep in the basement is the unfinished area, the place where all the crap ends up. It isn't organized. It's a dark, evil place. What will happen is the crap will stay down there and gestate. It will breed and multiply. It will first emerge into the finished part of the basement, maybe one of the bedrooms down there. Then it will slowly work it's way back upstairs, probably first in the office, or the guest bedroom, then the kitchen. In a very short period of time, all of that organizational work will be completely destroyed.

I'm exhausted and sick of cleaning, so I have no energy left to go down and slay this last bastion of clutter. I will pay for this. I will pay for my laziness. It will rise up again, and challenge me, chasing me into my own bedroom and I will have to fight it back down again, back into it's dark, evil cage.