Weeding and Risers or Cleaning Up the Basement

I am so excited. Jeff just sawed AND installed risers for the top 4 basement stairs. Well, I think they are called risers-the back part of the step so the stairway is no longer open. I have such high hopes as before dirt, leaves, pebbles etc from our shoes would fall through the open back onto what was stored below.

I am so optimistic that I moved almost all of our Christmas ornaments into the cabinet under the stairs. (The homemade ornaments fit in a small box and I found room for them in the kitchen. I didn't like all that paper and yarn in the basement anyway. )

Fitting the decorations under the stairs involved a little ornament weeding. We got rid of a few things in really poor condition. It feels good to get it organized and I can't push too far. If we compare all Jeff's boxes of Christmas ornaments to my boxes of reed, yarn and fabric, Jeff's Christmas collection is really, really small!