Room of Doom.

[titianprincess]

AIBU to ask if any you have a room of doom in your house where you throw all your crap and it looks like Lord Lucan might be found hiding in it? Please make me feel better and say yes

Had anyone had a room of doom and managed to tidy it and keep it presentable??

the room of doom in this house is otherwise known as my partners office, he works from home quite a lot, and have to confess i dont go in there as its a total mess with paperwork everywhere, his desk hides under a lot of stuff and my fingers start itching to tidy it up but then i know it will look the same the next day , so i hoover the minimal strip of car[pet i can see and shut the door fast before any of the cats get in there, because if they did i would lose them for a week

Yes. But I sorted it out last weekend and it looks amazing now. You could hardly open the door before!

not at the mo, but my mother called her crap cupboard a 'glory hole'

I had one. I sorted it yesterday as it was making me feel really low. It's lovely now.

Oh heck - I've just googled 'glory hole' wondering what it means - oops! Don't think she's aware of that!

I have a drawer of doom, full of all sorts of crap. Every time I go in there i think I should clear it out..that's never going to happen!

storm this is how I feel about mine. It's getting ridiculous now how messy it is

I was going to say

"Glory hole?!"

Our under the stair cupboard was like this. WAS!

I've got a cupboard that DP christened 'the Finders Keepers cupboard' as when you open it you get showered in abandoned space hoppers/cardboard boxes/Bags For Life. I would not be remotely surprised if Neil Buchanan was nesting in there somewhere.

Oh Lord! I have one and it gets me down constantly. It was the task for today and yesterday and the day before that. Can we pledge to deal with them together please titian? How doomy exactly is your room? I'll show you mine if you'll show me... it's terrible though.

We have a 'Harry P otter cupboard' which is like this at the moment. I need to get some decent storage solutions so everything can sit neatly.

at glory hole

Neil Buchanan!

Oh yes, I can barely open the door, it's embarrassing.

My office cum spare room. Everything not in the other rooms in the house gets put in there. Tidying up inviolves gathering random crap from the other rooms and putting in there. DH moans about it but I dont see him helping to keep it tidy. .

at Glory Hole...

goddess

There is a bed in the room but you can't see it because it is covered in crap. There are things on the floor and I feel a sense of despair whenever I open the door

Bacon, when I was growing up (Manchester, '70s) we had a glory hole too! It had stuff like the mop bucket, outdoor toys like bats and balls, shoe cleaning kit etc.

My Room of Doom starts at my front door

Oh yes we do!! Although we had an EA over yesterday to do a valuation so our room of doom is currently beautiful and has never looked bigger won't last

DH has the Shed of Many Mysteries.
Seriously, its knee deep in crap. Most needs a quick trip to the municipal waste centre.
I have a craft room. Its a tidily box room that was very much a room of doom until I bought proper shelving and got used to dumping dh's abandoned crud into his shed.
I still have to police the room carefully as old habits seem to die hard. Its a crud magnet all right.

Ahh - that's just like her cupboard Leeds2 - we also say 'mithering' and other northernish words, but we all grew up in the southwest.

We don't have a Room of Doom but we do have more than one Drawer of Despair.

I have a conservatory of doom. It's a totally useless room, DH put a greenhouse thermometer in there, in the hight of summer it reached over 50 degrees but right now it's about 4 degrees. I have no incentive to clear it out at all because as it is the conservatory can't be used as a living space so it might as well be the repository of all crap.

Just one room! Amateurs!

I used to have one- it's where the ironing lived (and reproduced) and all the boxes and books and stuff that I inintended to take upstairs and put away but never got any further than that room. If I'm honest, the only reason it's no longer my room of shame is that I got upduffed and needed it for DC2. I now have a cupboard of despair.

I have many many areas of doom

'Under the stairs of doom'. Very visible so gets sorted about once a month. Then the kids throw all their crap there and the cycle continues.

'Behind the couch of doom'. I ignore this area until you can see the pile rising above the couch.

The 'living room corner of doom'. I sort it about once a month.

The 'kitchen table of doom'. It's my favourite place in the house. I'm sitting at it right now drinking a glass of red wine and avin ay fag.

The 'kitchen drawers of doom'. Fuck them.

The 'side of the fridge of doom'. 14,765,703 carrier bags/bags for life. I might need them.

The 'cupboards of doom' at the top of the stairs. They get cleared every year or so. I did them recently and threw out 12 black bags. They're wonderful now.

'My bedroom of doom'. I'm single. Nobody sees it. Who cares?

I am a slut of a housewife. It's a race to the bottom for me on this one and i think i'm winning.