Storage Room

I wish that we had more pictures of the basement or 'cement part' as we called it. This other half of the basement was mostly storage. This  room had two freezers and storage boxes full of clothes/ costumes/decorations/camping gear/books/ and that kind of stuff.  Mom was super organized.... Look how everything is labeled and clean and neat... mind you it wasn't always this nice, especially when we went through the boxes taking out decorations this room was a mad house.  We always had to 'run downstairs' and get this or that, hated doing that too... i'm seeing a trend here, I think kids just hate doing chores huh?Going through boxes to get halloween costumes, and dress up clothes. The right freezer was full of meat... hamburger, steak, ham, roast beef, etc from the cows we butchered.. the other freezer (to the left and not pictured) had everything else...I don't have a picture but there was another room about this same size that was the storage room. It had shelves just like this and the whole room was full of food storage and some sleeping bags/foamies on the top shelf.  I remember cleaning this room out before mom and dad moved and we spent hours down here going through boxes, deciding who if any of us wanted to take what and what Mom should keep, we seriously spent hours doing this, it was 'fun' to spend time with my mom and sisters.  I remember when Dad would bring home the meat from the butcher shop and organize the freezer with the new boxes and boxes of meat. I remember helping him sometimes and my hands froze. For whatever reason I remember taking the little Christmas trees down from the top shelf.They were high up and would always fall over on me. This room was the ultimate hide and go seek room. We would hide on the top shelves, or in corners or in the rafters before there was a ceiling.  One time we had a mouser cat in the cement part for a few weeks or couple months or something. She would always go missing but eventually we would find her up in the rafters usually Kayla

Well the basement wasn't always that organized. I'm not sure when the old nasty boxes got exchanged for those nice totes! I remember the old camp equipment and backpacks that we had in there, they always seemed in the way.  A freezer full of meat!?! Who would have thought what a novelty that was! Goose jerky, the Old sheep hide in there for about 15 years!  We would steal freezies down there and drink apple juice and even drink some of Dad's dole juice that tasted so good but was his food for camp.  I remember coming home for some reason after being married and opening those freezers just amazed at all the food in there. I wish I had a cow! Ez

That thing looks nice these days. Not sure how much Jerky i stole out of the freezer down there. That was awesome. Go down suck on some frozen beef jerky. I still wish I had a freezer full of meat. Man, I took that for granted. How long was that sheep hide there?
It was always a blessed day when we had frezees down there. They would last about a week for the same reason the jerky never lasted long.PIZZA POPS, what blessed things those were. Always a good day when you got a pizza pop from the freezer for lunch.  Looking at Dad's old mission stuff was fun. The Caribou horns lived there for years and years. Aaron

This room would become a major disaster every year and we would have to go through the whole thing and clean it and organize it all over again and it took hours and we all hated doing it. Always being told to run down and get this or that. 
Stealing apple juice or rootbeer from down here and drinking it. or if there was something good in the freezer like icecream i would bring down a spoon and just eat it. or i'd find mom's stash of halloween or christmas candy.  Playing dress up with Jill and Kayla. and playing hide. Janae

always going down there to get stuff out of the freezer. Getting decorations out of there to take up stairs for every season! The boxes with camping gear and Halloween costumes! It was deffinately the best hide and seek room though. Tyanna