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far more organized than you are? Do you ever feel like your neighbors would be horrified at the truth?
I am looking around my house and I just can't imagine that any of the other moms in my neighborhood could possibly have as messy of a house as me right now.
Erika
02-04-2007, 03:24 PM
Well Jo, move to my neighbourhood and you'll feel great :lmao My house is such a tip. And I only have 1 child!
Sasha just won't stay down on her own for any longer than about 10 minutes. And there is only so much I can get done with her in the sling. She is getting used to her bouncer again though.
I think it is just in my nature to be disorganised and live in chaos.
LinMarie
02-04-2007, 03:35 PM
:giggle My house is atrocious! On the surface it usually looks livable, but don't open up any closets or cabinets! And for sure don't go down into the basement. We are in desperate need of a serious spring cleaning around here. Can anyone say garage sale?!
My biggest issue is paper. There is a ton of mail that comes thru here, along with bills and forms and schoolwork. It's just out of control. And I need to do something about it 'cause it's making me crazy!
I am looking around my house and I just can't imagine that any of the other moms in my neighborhood could possibly have as messy of a house as me right now.
Yup. I feel like that every day.
Desirae
02-04-2007, 03:49 PM
Oh yes! LOL I feel like that most of the time.
Danielle
02-04-2007, 04:16 PM
YES! I have a "Martha Stewart" friend at work who makes me feel inadequate on a daily basis LOL.
Kristi
02-04-2007, 04:18 PM
All the time. No matter how much cleaning I do there is always something out of place here. I would not let anyone in the door the way it is now :giggle And I just cleaned from top to bottom not even a week ago. :P
Christi
02-04-2007, 04:36 PM
Yep. My house is a wreck most of the time, but I'm getting better about getting the others who live here to help me pick it up!
MathSpeak
02-04-2007, 04:51 PM
Oh, PLEASE don't get me started... My house has been overtaken by papers!
Christine
02-04-2007, 05:42 PM
My house is always cluttered. The closest I've come to clean in a long time was this morning. I had three sick kids watching a movie and I just cleaned and cleaned until I thought I'd pass out. Somehow, the house is already messy and those same three sick kids are still watching TV! I think my house just moves towards chaos all by itself.
Thankfully I've become friends with some normal moms who also have comfortably lived in homes. And they're blissfully unashamed. It's starting to rub off on me. ;)
Stacy
02-04-2007, 05:43 PM
yes I do! It seems like I am always on the run as you know already LOL I just don't have time to organize the house and now we are moving again
Heather
02-04-2007, 06:16 PM
Yay! I'm not the only one.
Yes..my house has been in shambles for... well.. EVER! I told Steve that I wouldn't mind doing the Suzi Homemaker crap, BUT I refused to be the family maid. And that's basically what it's turned into around here. It's like these people think that I don't have enough to do so they're constantly making more messes and I just can't keep up half the time. I can only imagine how much worse it would be if I were working. I aspire to be a neat freak one day, but it's not happening while my children OR dh still live here lol. I try to take new pics of the kids on the days that I clean so the messes won't be in the background lmbo.
SabrinaJL
02-04-2007, 08:59 PM
Every other mom is more organized than me. No matter how many Rubbermaid containers I buy, I can't seem to get a handle on it.
I am horrible at organization! I feel like our house is always in shambles!
Christine
02-04-2007, 09:04 PM
Heather you're cracking me up as always!
Nicole dropped a slipper on the floor today and kept walking so I shouted to her to come and pick it up. She said in her oh-so-sweet-mini-mommy voice, "You don't have to treat me like I'm a maid!" :lmao I had to explain to her that dropping her slipper on the floor for me to pick up was treating ME like a maid and that was NOT happening!
Maleah
02-04-2007, 09:09 PM
Yay! I'm not the only one.
Yes..my house has been in shambles for... well.. EVER! I told Steve that I wouldn't mind doing the Suzi Homemaker crap, BUT I refused to be the family maid. And that's basically what it's turned into around here. It's like these people think that I don't have enough to do so they're constantly making more messes and I just can't keep up half the time. I can only imagine how much worse it would be if I were working. I aspire to be a neat freak one day, but it's not happening while my children OR dh still live here lol. I try to take new pics of the kids on the days that I clean so the messes won't be in the background lmbo.
Yeah, that!
My place is a shambles and it's only Maia and I. I really need to get sorted out, again.
I am telling myself that buying a gazillion storage boxes for all my bead stuff, and other containers for my yarn stash is helping though.
Jejune
02-04-2007, 11:48 PM
I don't just feel that way...I know it. I'm a mess, in many senses of the word. I love organization, but it does not come naturally to me. I sometimes think there should be an online thread where people come out of the closet and show their messes, because maybe then we'd feel less ashamed and more able to cope with the mess. But then I imagine people seeing my mess, and I decide not to be the one to start that thread....LOL
Tracy
02-04-2007, 11:54 PM
Every other mom is more organized than me. No matter how many Rubbermaid containers I buy, I can't seem to get a handle on it.
:guilty I have lots of containers...and they're full....yet I still have a mess! One of my goals this year is to get more organized. I have started sorting things for a yard sale this spring.......hopefully I can get this house somewhat organized!
Jurgita
02-05-2007, 12:16 AM
All the time! Sometimes I just feel like there is no use of cleaning, because I know it will be back to as it was in a day or two LOL
MrsSuzNZ
02-05-2007, 02:05 AM
Yep sure do!! Even after reading "More hours in my Day" still haven't got there. LOL I know it will take some time, but my ultimate goal is to get there. It will take 5 years. LOL (When the boys are in school. :D)
as i can most frequently be heard to be muttering "there is power in chaos" as i trog around my house i think we can safely say Martha Homemaker would die if she stepped foot into my home- i tell my mother often "I'm a mother not a housewife" and she rolls her eyes at me (i come from a family where mother and sister both have ocd- although mother refuses to get official diagnosis- and both obsessive cleaners.... i however got the "your damned if you tidy, you're damned if you don't so why waste your life with a duster in hand" mentality- watched my mother waste most of our childhood worrying about housework and pretty certain i am never going to do the same!
My nan once made me feel better about life, career, housework by telling me that in 20 years time no one will remember what job i had, what the state of my house was like in my twenties but they'll sure as hell know how my kids turned out and they'd remember more that i'd sent myself to the local mental health unit out of stress over it all too! (well she never told me that bit but i think so)
i DO feel really guilty because people keep telling me how great i am with my kids and i keep thinking "if only you saw the house"
Corey
02-05-2007, 05:54 AM
Yep, my house has the "lived in" look 99.9% of the time. If it appears clean there is alway clutter lurking in closets somewhere. :p
Polly
02-05-2007, 08:19 AM
This is why I have children. I need the unpaid labor. Still haven't cleaned the bathrooms in a week. I also think the cats plot against. Every time I get the house vacuumed and dusted, they chase each other around and rip tufts of hair out.
However-I have never been in a house where children live that is completely clean WITHOUT having a cleaning lady to take care of it.
Polly
Christine
02-05-2007, 08:28 AM
I love that book Suz! I read it whenever I need a pick-me-up in the organization department. She has some great tips to stay organized that actually make sense. I have another book of hers too - The 15 Minute Organizer. I guess she wrote a little column in the paper at one time where she gave tidbits to help people get more organized.
Erika
02-05-2007, 02:03 PM
I love organization, but it does not come naturally to me.
That is me to a tee. When I get going, I am a freak about having everything organised. But then when it naturally starts getting messed up, I panic and panica until I just let it go and let the mess build up.
Kristen
02-05-2007, 02:18 PM
No, I don't usually feel like that. :giggle My mom was a VERY organized housekeeper, so I'm pretty used to what it takes to keep things relatively picked up and clean. She taught me to plan ahead, to maintain things at a decent level(because maintenance is much easier than picking up an enormous mess!), etc.
I don't function at all well in a mess, so I work really hard at keeping things at least relatively clean and organized.
Now, that said, my house is NEVER as clean or as organized as I would like it to be. :giggle I just know it's not the worst house in the world.
Meshelle
02-05-2007, 03:24 PM
Oh yes! Even though my house is pretty organized...my closet is out of control!! That is where I dump everything when someone is coming over. LOL
My house is always a disaster. If I spend an hour cleaning up all the toys the kids have it undone in 10 minutes. I try to let it go sometimes and not stress about it because it is just not possible to keep up
Like right now my house is a mess, the dishes need to be done before I can cook dinner. But I am purposely ignoring it all. I'm just too tired today!
Mine is AWFUL!!!! I just do too much.
giffy
02-07-2007, 06:16 AM
My house is too small and we have woefully inadequate storage. Well, that's my story and I am sticking to it!!:haha
I am a messy person by nature, always have been, but having a part time job, 3 children, and a position on a committee of management, just accentuates it. Of course the boxes of crafting supplies, and a genetic predisposition to hoarding don't help. Neither does being lazy.;)
I am trying desperately to get the children to be tidy, and to pack away thier toys and clothes, but it really is an uphill battle for me.
Marzipan
02-07-2007, 07:20 AM
I'm similar to Kristen here. I am very much a clean-freak and extremely organized by nature. I cannot function at all in mess or clutter, but I've had to let a lot of this go since the children were born, and that is difficult for me. If you've ever seen the show "Monk," I wasn't far off from his cleaning and organizational habits before Sophie came along. I am much messier now and learning to adjust. But it's been hard for me. Although my husband and friends laugh at me, because my idea of "letting go" is "not dusting, not cleaning the bathrooms, and not wiping down the knobs and light switches on a daily basis." I still have a horror of clutter that I hope to never lose.
off-kilter
02-07-2007, 07:31 AM
Not yet a mom, but I am a natural slob. I fight daily to keep a minimal amount of order to my house. It's not a totally joking manner when me and the hubby say that we're going to have to figure out how to unclutter to the point where we're not losing the baby in the mess!
I'm not happy with it, but I'm at a bit of a loss on how to change.