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13 Items, Random To Oddly Specific, You ALWAYS Find Cleaning Your Room

Some things should have been thrown away long ago.

Amanda Parel

Dec 25, 2017

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13 Items, Random To Oddly Specific, You ALWAYS Find Cleaning Your Room

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Cleaning your room can be an ordeal; it's an uphill battle to create even just a square foot of clean open space.

No matter how many times you tidy up, there are 13 things you're guaranteed to find.

1. Money.

It's like Past You paid Future You to clean your room.

2. Clothes from a bygone age.

I'm not sure why this tie-dye t-shirt I made in sixth grade is still in the bottom of my dresser drawer, but it's time to say goodbye.

3. Clothes and accessories you forgot you had.

Who knows when I got this cute scarf or who gave it to me, but I'm glad I have it now!

4. Childhood toys.

It can be a great nostalgia trip finding your old favorite stuffed animal. However, I'm not sure how long this Littlest Pet Shop rabbit has been under my bed, and I'm not sure I want to know.

5. Birthday/Christmas/graduation cards.

Usually this is where you find the cash or gift cards that were tucked away and forgotten about.

6. Trash. Trash everywhere.

Plastic water bottles, partially used lip balms you opened five years ago, broken earbuds, old mail — you could fill a trash bag and a recycling bin.

7. Old candy.

It could be from your last Christmas stocking, Easter basket, Halloween haul or birthday present. Either way, if you haven't eaten it by now, it's time to throw it away.

8. Your old iPod or MP3 player.

The device you used to learn "Fergalicious" has now been found!

9. Old school projects and assignments.

This science fair report from eighth grade contains the height of my knowledge on how laundry detergent works.

10. Photos.

At this point, you pause your cleaning to take a trip down memory lane.

11. Dust.

God bless Swiffer Dusters.

12. Trophies and awards.

Your second-grade soccer trophy is the ultimate blast from the past.

13. That thing you were looking for last month and couldn't find.

THERE'S my extra phone charger! Why was it on my bookshelf?

Start the new year off right by clearing out all the junk from your room. It may take a few hours, but you'll be glad you did it.

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13 Items, Random To Oddly Specific, You ALWAYS Find Cleaning Your Room

Some things should have been thrown away long ago.

1. Money.

2. Clothes from a bygone age.

3. Clothes and accessories you forgot you had.

4. Childhood toys.

5. Birthday/Christmas/graduation cards.

6. Trash. Trash everywhere.

7. Old candy.

8. Your old iPod or MP3 player.

9. Old school projects and assignments.

10. Photos.

11. Dust.

12. Trophies and awards.

13. That thing you were looking for last month and couldn't find.

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Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

25. “Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled on.”

Everything Bruce says in his classic rock songs.

1. "Talk about a dream Try to make it real You wake up in the night With a fear so real Spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)

2. "It's a town full of losers/ I'm pulling out of here to win" (Thunder Road)

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4. "I got something in my heart/ I been waitin' to give/ I got a life I wanna start/ One I been waitin' to live" (Leah)

5. “God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he’s sure of” (Brilliant Disguise)

7. “Is a dream a lie when it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” (The River)

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)