Once more into the fray...

In the past few weeks I've started to feel guilted inspired by my friends and fellow bloggers.  And you know who you are....ahem, Katie and Michelle,  It's hard to admit this, especially in such a public forum so I'm just going to go for it.

HI. My name is Amy and I have an organizational problem.

Specifically, I ignore my children's room in favor of my sanity.  Seriously...it's like descending into one of the Seven Rings of Hell in there.

Case in point:

Their room is what Cher from Clueless would call a 'Full on Monet'-From far away it's okay...

But close up it's just a big ol' mess...

This set of drawers was supposed to be helpful....yeah, not so much.

Wow, this one doesn't look too bad...unless you pick up that backpack and inspect the actual toy box.  What is that smell anyway??

 If you look closely at the photos you'll notice that my kids have too much junk I've tried many organizational techniques already, and they have failed miserably.  I organized their books into separate boxes based on AR levels, and I labeled them.  They were a jumbled mess within a week.  I purchased that lovely Rubbermaid drawer set to keep their little action figure guys, cars, Bionicles, etc.separated and easy to locate...they shove every little thing they  bring home into it, and unless I want to spend hours picking through it to keep them separated they stay a jumbled mess.   I purchased the large blue tub in the photo above to use as their "Arsenal"-the huge stash of Nerf weapons they've accumlated.  Last time I checked there was a family of dust bunnies living in the bottom and they had made a little fortress out of stray Lego pieces...pretty sure they are holding a few superheroes hostage at his point.

So what I need from you, dear readers, is some suggestions for taming this wicked beast of a room.  Best way of storing Legos?  How do you keep all of those little action figure dudes from roaming the house?  How do you determine when a toy needs to move on to a new home?  How in tarnation do they end up with SO. MUCH. STUFF?

Besides my friends over at the little things blog and I'm Living the Good Life there is also a ton of inspiration over at I'm an Organizing Junkie.  I know help is out there somewhere...someone take pity on this poor mama and give me some good (and CHEAP!) ideas for easy organization!!  And please tell me how you magically make your slobbish kiddos keep it organized once you've made sense of the lot!