Hoarders- The Keller edition.

When I am pregnant ( aka 75% of the time....) I am a horrible housekeeper.  I do basic daily things that need to be done:
-Dishes
-Laundry
-Sweep
-Mop
-Vacuum (or just let Roomba do it and pretend that I've spent a hard day running the vacuum)
-General wiping down of surfaces.

 

But the big things; the organizing, getting rid of too small clothes, wrong season clothes, toys that no one plays with, broken toys, half eaten toys....,those things go on the back burner.  Mostly because I am so freaking exhausted all I want to do is sleep when I have a free second.  (Or heck when I am sitting up reading a book to a child.  It's happened, judge away.) 


So currently not pregnant me is going nuts trying to get things back into the order I like them to be in.  (Slightly cluttered but in no way dirty and disgusting.  High standards baby!) I finished going through all of the girls' room and their clothes have been taken care of.  Keeping it that way for more than 5 seconds is another story entirely.  So my next goal is the kids playroom.  Christmas is coming and I'm sure that the kids will have plenty of new toys.  I need to make sure the ones that they have all have a place and that there is room for new ones to come in.  So what I'm looking for is any and all tips. 


I don't think anyone but my sisters are reading this but HELP!  (And I absolutely love that my sisters are reading this.  They're the best!) Besides the obvious things like throwing away broken toys and donating toys that aren't played with, What can I do?  What do you do that helps to make sure kids can clean up after themselves and to avoid me walking through a minefield every time I go upstairs?


This is the room as it is right now. We have not actually touched this room since we moved in here, except for having my father in law build some new shelves for the closet.  What I'm hoping for will be a major overhaul.  Including new paint and shelves and whatever.  Keep in mind that it is completely and totally trashed at this point.





Right side of closet currently.



Right side of closet with a shocked boy who is supposed to be cleaning up the playroom.

 

Left side of closet.

 

Don't you just love the wallpaper??

 

Starting to get organized.

 

A giant and complete mess....

So hopefully by posting my before pictures and getting some tips, I can motivate myself to get it to the done phase and post some after pictures sooner rather than later.