Cleaning, Organizing, Throwing Away… and a quick contest
I may be MIA for a few days while I finish “Operation Project Cleanup.” This is the time where we go through our house and especially all of my kids’ stuff and make piles – give away, throw away, keep, etc…
This year is especially difficult since we also are having to do this task with our stuff and theirs.
I am converting what was my home studio into a home office (since I rarely take studio photos and have been set up in our family room for the past two years as an office). So now I will have a desk in that room and can sit in a chair versus a couch while I work on my computer and while training people. Bet you had no idea I was on a sofa. Did you?
Anyway, my husband’s “office” will become the girls’ second room. My twins still want to share a bedroom. We always told them (starting around 4 yrs old) that at 7 they could have their own rooms. They will be 7 in December – this happened way faster than I thought it would.
They decided they did want two rooms, but want one to share for sleeping and another for “stuff.” So we have ordered them each a pretty white desk and their room is getting painted. This is their birthday present. Ok, so I did order them a few things from American Girl too. But this is their main gift.
This weekend is our deadline as their room is getting painted this week and the desks are coming. We need to get out of what is to be “their room.”
I did have to make a deal with them. The bookshelves that house photo albums of their life (all 7 years) need to stay in there. I have no other place to put them. I use those cheap albums from Michaels Arts and Crafts, where they self stick, fit 2-3 pictures to a page, and have 100 double sided pages (so 200 sides) to each album. Why am I telling you this?
1st person to guess how many albums I have filled from their birth through August 2008 (which is the last time I ordered prints) gets $20 off an action set at my store.
******* CONTEST NOW OVER – after almost 3 days and 67 guesses, nobody guessed correctly here. The answer is 40 ********
I am heading upstairs to count them right now, so I will know the answer. Thanks for playing along. Off to clean more. Oh, and I forgot to mention, if you have kids that no longer play with their American Girl doll and/or accessories and doll clothes, let me know. Maybe we can make some trades 
Actions for AG stuff.
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16
I guess 14 albums?
Good luck with operation project cleanup!
So since you said bookshelves (plural), I’m going to guess 52. Atleast your a good mom and print their pictures. I last printed pictures and put them in an album for my son’s 1st birthday. He’s now 3 and has a little brother.
22
nobody has guessed yet – I have to tell you something freaky. I asked my twins their guesses. Jenna guessed the exact number. I was freaked out. She asked if I would give her $20. I said she could have $20 worth of “actions.”
She did not like that answer from me at all…
13 – I have a feeling no matter how many it is I’m going to feel guilty about having only 1 for my girl!
I’m guessing 29.
Twins.. almost 7 years.. I will guess 42.
21 a piece.
23 is my guess
my guess is 50
i too, NEVER print pix in this digital world – my boys will all get external hd’s with their childhood memories 
i’m guessing 47. it just feels right. i hope.
My guess is 32.
I just purchased some of your actions this weekend. I cannot remove my butt from the computer! They are so much fun!
Since I am selfish, I want more.
my guess is 17 albums.
I’m guessing 37 and I just put some AG clothes in a bag to give to Goodwill today… they are totally fine, a friend handed them down to us and my girls are just too young to play with them still. Anyway, it’s a blue dress with matching hat, two robes, a jumper, a pair of tennis shoes and maybe some other random accessories, I didn’t pay close attention… they are yours if you’d like them! Just let me know and I’ll mail them to you!
Since you said you got them cheap, I would guess you got alot of them, so my guess is 62. Good luck with your room cleaning!
36! Seems like a good number!
Hmmm, I’d say for two girls with a mom who likes pictures………Do we have to guess the EXACT number? or can it be closest without going over?
39
My aunt taught my cousins from an early age that they were to grab the photo albums and run if the house ever caught fire!
12………yeah, I guess 12!
Well my son is only 2 and he has 10 albums already…. so I will say 60.
33 is my guess…
28?
I guess 44
Oh goodness, all of my guesses have been taken! I’ll guess 26.
I will guess 48. I am always horrible at guessing games.
My girls are going to be 7, in about 2 weeks. I am sure I didn’t take as many pictures as you, but… I have 25 albums that I have actually put pictures in. Gah….and need to fill about 25 more!
My girls have tons of AG stuff and will check with my wife to see what they want to part with…I would love some actions and story boards….Im guessing about 53
56. I had to keep going through the previous comments to see if all my guesses have been taken.
I think 54
I’m guessing about 58, but I’m a terrible at this sorta thing!
I’ll say 70, 10 for each year. Wow that is a lot of photographs!
I am guessing 64!
My guess is 63.
my guess is 31. happy cleaning!
Hey-my guess is 72!
I would guess 47, you always show amazing pictures on your blog!
I say 33. ???
We made up an elaborate formula and came up with 56!
I am guessing 14 books- 2 for each year and a bookshelf for each of them and their own albums.
Ok, I am going to guess 34…..
Have fun cleaning up and organzing!
My guess is 16
I’m guessing 15
I will guess 20 since all the rest of my guesses are gone.
I can’t remember when I printed my photos last
. I don’t have any children, but I know that this past week when I went to visit my twin nieces for their first birthday, I shot over 800 pictures in just 4 days! Anyway, I’m guessing 61…..
Ok, here’s my guess….39. How about next summer you do a workshop in Madison, WI and I’ll take you to the American Girl Warehouse sale? It’s a good one, they do it every year usually in July. Deals, Deals, Deals !
My guess is 108. Have fun cleaning … I know it is a pain, but just think how good it will feel once it is all done.
31! Can’t wait to hear ho many!
I’m guessing 24!
I am guessin 78 {37 each}!
124
29. I do about 4 a year, so i rounded up…
27, hehe!
i guess 68
my guess is…34 :0)
67?
88, I hope! Your girls are beautiful!
Have fun moving, and organizing and finding things you’ve not in a while…
22 is my quess
I’m guessing 42.
I know I am probably guessing high but I am guessing 84. One a month for each…LOL
160
41 hasn’t been taken I don’t think? I will try it.
Man! I wish I had some AG stuff! I would totally trade!
I’m guessing 19 albums
101???
75…
I’m gonna guess 84!!!
25?
Sophie had 2 albums for the first year & of course I haven’t done it since. Her little brother has 0. In my defense there are thousands of photos dumped on the computer, unsorted, of both
But I’ll bet you take way more pictures, are way more organized and 70 is already taken, so I’ll guess 80.
I guess 26…..has that been taken?! Can’t wait to hear how many!
Contest is now over – nobody guessed it after a number of days. I will have another fun contest soon. See the post for the correct answer.