Attempted organisation.

It all started when my sister kindly bought over her old fridge for us. She's bought a new one, as this one lacks a freezer, and so we scored. It's a lovely fridge, lots of room, much bigger gaps between the clear plastic shelves, and being newer, I would imagine it's much more energy efficient. We have a small separate freezer, so this will work well when we're in the new house. Anyway, since we'll continue using our current fridge/freezer until we move, I had to clean out some space for the new one until then.

This has since sparked a cleaning/organisation quest that took over the weekend. Of course, it was also spurred on by our stowaway mouse, who was getting so cheeky he would watch us from under the TV cabinet while we were watching TV! We've managed to catch and remove 8 mice so far (one adult and 7 babies), and they've all been relocated to a block of bushland up the road. (Yes, I'm a softie, can't even kill mice. They're just so damn cute.) Unfortunately, the mousy smell was really starting to get to us, so on Saturday we pulled up all the mattresses and cleaned under the bed. Plenty of mouse signs, but no mouse. Then today, I had the brilliant idea of sorting through all the boxes down the side of our bed. These ratty cardboard boxes had been shoved there when we first moved in, had lots of things pulled out of them and other's shoved back in, and were the prefect hidey holes for mice. So we spent $100 on 10 plastic boxes, and everything in those boxes either found a home, or was shifted into a plastic one. Now we have a very neat and mouse-proof wall of boxes down the side of our bed, all ready to go straight into the house when it's finished. In the bottom of one of the cardboard boxes, we found our mouse, and he too has gone to a new home on the bush block. Maybe he'll find the rest of his family. I only hope he's the last one!