My shameful house

[Uno-Mom]

Does anybody else ever look around your home and think: how can we live like this???

We have good hygiene standards in most areas but, yikes, our house has these little pockets of filth sometimes! Like, the grungy lint that's collected around the bathroom baseboard. Dustbunnies in the hall. Mud by the back door. Old food splatters on the kitchen cabinet fronts. That kind of thing.

It just seems like we barely keep up with tidying up clutter, laundry, dishes and keeping clean food prep areas. We rarely get to that "deep" cleaning stuff.

We do keep eyes on Sprog to make sure she stays away from those dirty corners ... but it sure would be nice to have a cleaning fairy!

[golightly1118]

Oh, I feel your pain. Most of our 'grunge' is courtesy of our two dogs-how two dogs with a combined weight of 32 pounds can shed as much as a lab is beyond me, but they manage to do just that. I'm constantly vacuuming/dust mopping our hard floors and have banished them from our carpets, but it's impossible to keep up with. Now that DD is a crawler I have to admit I'm going sightly nuts trying to keep her out of dog hair.

[Edensmum]

I'm drowning in my home presently. I just feel overwhelmed. I have a one year old who is a total and all consuming presence at the moment. I want to make more of the house baby proofed, but what do I do with him while I do it? I want to purge and reorganize and clean thoroughly, but frankly I'm lucky to pee alone once a day right now, so that's mostly fantasy. It's frustrating. I just need a little time but the days keep passing and we are in triage mode always.

[MamaMolly]

Three moves is as good as a fire for housekeeping. I don't know what I'm going to do when DH retires and we don't move every few years. Drown in my own mess, I expect!

[Uno-Mom]

I'm drowning in my home presently. I just feel overwhelmed. I have a one year old who is a total and all consuming presence at the moment. I want to make more of the house baby proofed, but what do I do with him while I do it? I want to purge and reorganize and clean thoroughly, but frankly I'm lucky to pee alone once a day right now, so that's mostly fantasy. It's frustrating. I just need a little time but the days keep passing and we are in triage mode always.

Amen sister!

Our life seems a bit less stressful than yours, we have family happy to take Sprog off our hands for a few hours. But when they do, we're dying to eat out ... veg out ... or *ahem* ... so the cleaning STILL doesn't get done.

[Uno-Mom]

Three moves is as good as a fire for housekeeping. I don't know what I'm going to do when DH retires and we don't move every few years. Drown in my own mess, I expect!

Wow, what kind of work does he do that moves the family so often? I love our home but kinda wish we could do the kind of purge that happens with a move! DH is a packrat. :)

[DebbieJ]

Um, yeah. We have the FP Space Saver high chair--you know the one that straps onto a kitchen chair? I made the mistake of looking behind/under it tonight. I'm sure if I was motivated to unstrap it and clean it I would be pretty grossed out at what I found.

[DebbieJ]

I'm drowning in my home presently. I just feel overwhelmed. I have a one year old who is a total and all consuming presence at the moment. I want to make more of the house baby proofed, but what do I do with him while I do it? I want to purge and reorganize and clean thoroughly, but frankly I'm lucky to pee alone once a day right now, so that's mostly fantasy. It's frustrating. I just need a little time but the days keep passing and we are in triage mode always.

Thank you for sharing this. DS2 is 16 months and constantly on the go. DS1 needs pretty close supervision also otherwise he'll veg with the tv/computer/Wii for HOURS if we let him. We are in triage mode too. I can't remember the last time DH and I had quality time together.

[blue]

Um, yeah. We have the FP Space Saver high chair--you know the one that straps onto a kitchen chair? I made the mistake of looking behind/under it tonight. I'm sure if I was motivated to unstrap it and clean it I would be pretty grossed out at what I found.

Nooo, Do Not unstrap the high chair and look under it! We have the same model and yesterday I made the mistake of unstrapping it, because I was going to clean it...Well needless to say I quickly strapping it back to the chair and walked away :innocent:

[ellies mom]

You know I was in school for a few years and my whole house just fell apart. I'm finally getting it back together then. What works for me it to divide my house into zones like Flylady does. Then each week I focus on one zone (kitchen/dining room, or living room/playroom for example). I don't necessarily try to get the whole zone clean in a week but I try to spend 15 -30 minutes each day doing something. For instance one day I may just run a wipe along the top of the baseboards. Another day I may sweep down the cobwebs. The house doesn't become sparkling over night but it isn't overwelming either. Usually by the end of the week you can see a big difference. And usually by the time the zone comes around again you are building on the improvements you made last time. For example, the baseboards are still pretty clean so a quick swipe is all you need and now you can move on to something you didn't do last time.

[jgenie]

You don't want to see my house. DS2 just turned 1 and is still waking every 1.5 - 2 hours every night. On the rare occasion that I can get both DC to nap together I crawl into bed to try to catch a quick cat nap. DS1 is attached to my hip and will not let me go all day so I can't get anything done during the day. At the end of the day when I get DS1 in bed and DS2 down for the first 1.5 hours - I clean the kitchen, brush my teeth and get ready for bed and then just zone out in front of the TV for 30 mins before DS2's first wake up. At this point I've just accepted it's the way we live now and it's not going to change any time soon. (DH doesn't get home until after DC are in bed every night so I'm on my own every day.)

[amldaley]

Not that I wish any of this on any of you, but....

....I am so glad I am not the only one. I seriiously am developing a complex about it. I feel anxiety wherever I look. It is almost all I can think about lately. And I don't see it getting better anytime soon.

[sunshine873]

Three moves is as good as a fire for housekeeping. I don't know what I'm going to do when DH retires and we don't move every few years. Drown in my own mess, I expect!

We were supposed to be moving and now it looks like that is getting cancelled. I'm disappointed for multiple reasons, but the main one is exactly what you said. I know that's the only way we're going to actually be able to get motivated to get rid of a bunch of junk we have laying around! Ugh!

Thanks OP for fessing up...I feel the same way here so many times. We too are in triage mode. I can't get anything done while she's awake, and then once she's finally asleep, I pick up her toys, clean up the kitchen & I'm toast.

[SkyrMommy]

Oh goodness, me too. We're having our carpets done in several rooms and hallways and moved some furniture/small things around to clear the spaces and the dust bunnies and little bits of fuzz are unbelievable. I just don't have the energy to go through the whole house for a major cleaning.

I'm seriously thinking of begging DH to let me hire a housecleaning service to deep clean the whole house after our vacation. DD and I could leave for the day with the dog and come back to clean!

[septmama2b]

I am drowning too. With two toddlers and a big hairy dog I just can't keep up with the house. For the last year we have just been in survival mode, and now that the little guy is a year old I need to get some systems in place. I manage to keep the laundry and dishes from piling up, but the rest of the cleaning is much less frequent then I would like.
I recently signed up for fly lady and am surprised at how much it has helped so far. I'm on week one, but have not gone to bed with dishes in the sink since I started and that's a good start.
I find that I am so overwhelmed with the whole house, that I feel like I can't ever get it all clean. I need to detail our FP booster chair too, I'm afraid of what I'd find underneath it. The boys just wear me out, and when I get them down to sleep I just don't have the energy to tackle cleaning a bathroom, or mopping the kitchen floor.
We live 3000 miles from our family, so I really don't have the support system in place to drop the boys with their grandparents and catch up. The only time my house is really really clean is right before we pick up guests at the airport.
I know tv is not the best for kids this young, but sometimes it is my only option with two little ones. Once you get at least one room baby proofed you will be able leave your DC to play there while you work on something else nearby. Check out fly lady, just reading the info on the website made me feel better even before I started trying any of the techniques.

[DietCokeLover]

Hi my name is DietCokeLover and I live in a shameful house.

My troubles started when we moved here. I was so depressed about where we were living I just didn't care. Then, we had two children who are 11 mos apart and I started caring more and i can't catch up. I barely have time to do the minimum for cleaning, let Aline get into the really good deepcleaning.

[SnuggleBuggles]

You're better than I. I only really see the value in picking up if I am also going to clean. So, I have to have time to do both or I don't even do one. So, the house builds in clutter and dust (etc....) till I whip it into shape. It stays that way for a day or 2 then starts it's descent back to mess.

My friend's house always looks spotless b/c she is constantly picking up + they don't have a lot of stuff but look close and it's dirty. It made me feel better to see that though b/c I didn't know how she did it all!

Beth

[MoJo]

I struggle with that too. Jelly Bean's finally old enough that I can clean while watching her without her needing to get involved every time. . . and now suddenly Ha wants to be on the floor all the time, which means constant supervision. So I sit on the floor with her and try to clean that one little area, because that's better than nothing.

I'm pretty sure it's going to get worse before it gets better around here, as Ha is quickly becoming a lot more mobile. I dream of DH taking both kids for a day (even if they stayed here) so I could work on the house, but that hasn't happened in many months and isn't likely to happen any time soon.

[mezzona]

Our house is usually picked up before we go to bed. But we totally have dust bunnies and hand prints and smears on the mirrors and doors and cabinets. But it's ok! I have accepted it. And no one's going to eat the baseboard here so its not worth my time right now. I would rather sleep!

[SnuggleBuggles]

I'm pretty sure it's going to get worse before it gets better around here, as Ha is quickly becoming a lot more mobile. I dream of DH taking both kids for a day (even if they stayed here) so I could work on the house, but that hasn't happened in many months and isn't likely to happen any time soon.

Ooh! I am going to ask for that tomorrow!! We have no plans and it would be great! I love getting the house clean and having no one around to immediately mess it up!!! I get it all done then sit in my clean, peaceful house. It is much needed and I will do it this weekend. Thanks!

Beth

[liz]

Oh my gosh, I swear I almost posted the same thing! My house is a TOTAL disaster- so bad, that if I had visitors right now I would be mortified.

DS3 is at that age where he will pick up something, carry it into the next room and drop it there when he finds something new to hold onto. So not only do I have stuff everywhere, it is randomly all over the house. I know it's hard to keep the house tidy when we have 3 kids, but sometimes it is so overwhelming.

I will be without the 2 oldest kids most of today and tomorrow, but instead of relaxing, I know I will be cleaning.

Don't even get me started on the baseboards. Or behind the toilet........:cry:

[Edensmum]

Amen sister!

Our life seems a bit less stressful than yours, we have family happy to take Sprog off our hands for a few hours. But when they do, we're dying to eat out ... veg out ... or *ahem* ... so the cleaning STILL doesn't get done.

I am alone here, no family and friends have their own little ones. My older dd goes to neighbors to play, but dh works an hour away so I feel like I just can't catch up.

[trales]

I want to invite a new friend over. But I went to her house last week. It was really clean and nice. Mine is not clean.

I am embaressed to have her over until I clean. I don't even know where to start. I look at the mess, and take a nap instead.

[wendibird22]

I hear ya! Tidy, yes. Basic cleaning, mostly. Truly clean...never. There aren't enough hours in the day. Can't remember the last time we cleaned fridge shelves, wiped down our white kitchen cabinets, vacuumed or swept inside a closet or under a bed, empty the crumbs out of the toaster.

[RunnerDuck]

I feel like if someone could just take my children for a week... I could get on top of things. But every day it feels like scrambling up a pile of gravel. Even if I make it to the top there's a mess behind me then.

I look at pics from when it was just my son, and he was a baby, and my house was always so clean... I always cleaned on Thursdays so I could have people over on the weekend. And it stayed decent through the week. But three kids, two of them toddler twins, I can't keep up with... the laundry and dishes alone are swamping me.

And the internet does not help. :rotflmao:

[bisous]

I am so, so ashamed of my bedroom! We live in 875 square feet with no garage or yard, so my "garage" (aka dumping ground for stuff in transit) is my bedroom. It makes me so sad. My New Years Resolution is to get my room all cleaned up and to severely limit the stuff "in transit" so that it stays a nice place to rest and recoup!

[wolverine2]

My house is constantly a disaster. I wish we could afford a cleaning person (and the time to pick up for that person ahead of time).

It's so bad that my dad (who once stepped over a pie the dog ate when I was little in the middle of the floor claiming "I never saw it" so he didn't have to clean it up) noticed the cobwebs in my pantry at Christmas time, and started to vacuum. I told him we never cleaned there because we have a pet spider "George" who lives there. That's actually true, but George is dead. :)

[Mikey0709]

Thank you for making me feel better everyone!

I never sit down.... and i am CONSTANTLY picking up toys....and our house is a BAD disaster.

I don't even like having FAMILY over at this point. It's EMBARASSING!

[RunnerDuck]

Right now one of my biggest problems is toddler girl clothes piled all over. I need to clear out stuff the girls have outgrown. I would like to get ir organized and try to make a little money selling it - just a little!!! - but it's so daunting. I had been shoving stuff in bins but I am out of room in the bins so it is piling up and I really need to deal with it.

Or just go to target and buy another bin... :hysterical:

[infocrazy]

I want to invite a new friend over. But I went to her house last week. It was really clean and nice. Mine is not clean.

I am embaressed to have her over until I clean. I don't even know where to start. I look at the mess, and take a nap instead.

Ah, see, this is HOW I clean... I invite someone over so it FORCES me to clean it all up because I have a deadline... we need someone to come soon!

We have been on/off sick for 2 weeks now, DH and I both work FT off-shift, the laundry is out of control and it is really too much right now.

[momof2girls]

I always say the only way my house will be 100% organized is if we literally move out then move back in.

[Indianamom2]

I'm drowning in my home presently. I just feel overwhelmed. I have a one year old who is a total and all consuming presence at the moment. I want to make more of the house baby proofed, but what do I do with him while I do it? I want to purge and reorganize and clean thoroughly, but frankly I'm lucky to pee alone once a day right now, so that's mostly fantasy. It's frustrating. I just need a little time but the days keep passing and we are in triage mode always.

:yeahthat: The downstairs is reasonably clean (except for the dog/cat hair that, despite vacuuming at least 2-3 times a week still takes over) but upstairs....yeah, it's an absolute pit and I just don't even know where to start. The master bedroom is embarassing; there's no other word for it, but since we're the only ones to see it, it always takes last place.

Heaven help us if we have a medical emergency because I would be so incredibly mortified.

[RunnerDuck]

Heaven help us if we have a medical emergency because I would be so incredibly mortified.

I have a friend who is a paramedic, and a brother who is a cop. From the sounds of it, people's houses in general are way worse than you might imagine. And there's way more hoarders out there than you'd think. So odds are whoever had to come to your house wouldn't be phased. :D

[BeachBum]

Well this was just the motivation I needed to GET OFF THE COMPUTER! HA. I've got work to do :)

[YouAreTheFocus]

I'm so glad you started this thread, and that so many others have responded! We are eternally drowning in clutter (and worse). I feel like we can't have anyone over, and if a neighbor drops by I talk to them in the doorway (which I feel terrible about). My husband thinks I'm over-reacting.

I always get the impression that the posters here have these picture perfect Pottery Barn houses--thrilled to know that's not necessarily the case!

[RunnerDuck]

I always get the impression that the posters here have these picture perfect Pottery Barn houses--thrilled to know that's not necessarily the case!

Hell no. The barn part sounds about right, but there's no pottery. The kids would break it. :ROTFLMAO:

[marie]

Hell no. The barn part sounds about right, but there's no pottery. The kids would break it. :ROTFLMAO:

:hysterical:

another shameful house here. . .

[YouAreTheFocus]

Hell no. The barn part sounds about right, but there's no pottery. The kids would break it. :ROTFLMAO:

This is awesome! Total LOL.

[nmosur]

You know when I think of having another baby (I have just one, DD), one of the topmost reasons why I don't want to is how I just could not cope with housework or for that matter anything that did not involve DD. I was not working and inspite of that all I could do was the absolute minimum. Add to it a totally uncooperative DH, it was the pits. I don't know how I lived in the mess I did.

[larig]

OMG, I am so in the club too.
I have purged and purged and purged, but there is still clutter everywhere I look. Toy's are everywhere and DS recently started getting toys with little pieces, so ...I haven't had friends over in a LONG time, because it's just too bad. Oh, did I mention DS is a "dumper." Yeah, and we have a dog--he's not small and our yard is constantly muddy. I have a roomba, but I can't run it, because the dog will attack it. Seriously. Glad to know there are others. Maybe someday when I have a bigger house with SOME storage things will be better. Right now the living room is also the playroom/dining room, etc.

[♥ms.pacman♥]

Hell no. The barn part sounds about right, but there's no pottery. The kids would break it. :ROTFLMAO:

LOL, i love it.

extremely shameful house here too, and we even have housecleaners come every 2 weeks. :bag the worst part is i feel like i spend such a large portion of the day loading/unloading dishes and sweeping/mopping the floor etc but it just gets insanely messy again. i have a 1yo who is fond of throwing food, spoons, bowls, cups and everything else during mealtimes (4x a day)..plus has a habit of dropping snacks/crackers and spilling milk and whatever at random places around the house. seriously, ever since ds started eating lots of solid meals and then walking, it seems like all i do is clean up after him (diapers are the easy part!!). i look back at when my ds only nursed and did not move around much, and i think of how that was a piece of cake to deal with compared to now...we only had ourselves to clean up after.

there is someone on here who had/has a sig that says something like "trying to clean up after kids is trying to shovel snow in a blizzard" or something to that effect...so true, i totally get that!

[SnuggleBuggles]

:yeahthat: The downstairs is reasonably clean (except for the dog/cat hair that, despite vacuuming at least 2-3 times a week still takes over) but upstairs....yeah, it's an absolute pit and I just don't even know where to start. The master bedroom is embarassing; there's no other word for it, but since we're the only ones to see it, it always takes last place.

Heaven help us if we have a medical emergency because I would be so incredibly mortified.

About 2 hours before the last party we had I gave up on some downstairs' organizing and cleaning and just started chucking stuff into my bedroom. This new clutter was on top of the heaps of clean laundry, most still in baskets, on the floor. bed was unmade, it was just as messy as can be though no bio hazards. :) Well, the kiddos wound up in there and one of my friends, who has never seen my bedroom before because, sadly, that state is pretty common, had to go into my room to get her toddler out. On one hand I was laughing (what else could I do?) and the other was mildly freaking out b/c that was my messy hiding spot! I can't seem to have all rooms of my house clean at once. I need to have a safe haven for crap. I need my old 4 bedroom house back vs this 3 bedroom one. That 4th bedroom was huge with giant closets lining the whole room. That would have been a great hiding spot!

Beth

[newg]

shameful house here..........

I can't tell you when I cleaned our bathroom from top to bottom last :bag. I keep the downstairs bathroom clean.....that's easy, it's just a toilet and sink......and DD's bathroom is rarely dirty because all she does is take a bath and pee in the potty.....so again, easy to wipe down while she is taking a bath....................but our bathroom has two sinks, a toilet, shower and garden tub and is a total PITA to clean......and no one sees it, so like PP mentioned, I have no motivation to give it a super clean.

I am able to keep the downstairs clean: vacume, dirty dishes and laundry. I have gotten lazy about washing the floors now that DD1 no longer crawls.........I am a bit fearful when DD2 starts crawling because I know how much more work I will have.

But there are so many "organizing" projects that need to get done.........getting ride of/returing borrowed maternity clothes, organizing outgrown clothes for DD1 and DD2, and just going through the junk that piles up all over the house! And don't get me started on the "deep cleaning" that I just ignore now: baseboards, finger prints, windows, dust on shelves........

I am so glad I'm not the only one...........I feel like I should have my sh#$% together more because I am normally a clean/organizing freak.
And I also feel selfish for using what free time I have to sit down and play on the computer, take a shower, eat, put my feet up........

[doberbrat]

I'm SO glad this thread got started and there are so many responses. Honestly, I've been pretty depressed and feeling inadequate aroound here. My house is a disaster, I apparently feed subpar foods and the list goes on.

Our house is so shameful too. I feel like I cant have new people over b/c I'm too embarrased. Heck, it takes me a week or 2 to prepare for my close friends to come over most of the time. Dh is bordering on being a hoarder and I tend to be a bit of a packrat. We have a small house, 2 dogs -which, how is it that my doberman sheds more than my 3 cockers ever did combined?

[todzwife]

I'm glad to read that I'm not the only one...I try desperately to keep things under control, but they quickly get back to being a disaster area because 1. I'm the only one that cleans. 2. We have too much "stuff".


So I decided to do something about it. I started purging everything that doesn't have a home. We started in DD1's room. It's looking much better (round 1). She's actually sleeping in her bed tonight as opposed to the floor in our room (we haven't seen her bed in WEEKS because it was covered in clean laundry). I got rid of a bag of clothing and books/toys for the children's shelter.

DS's room is on the hit list next. We need to take everything out from under his bed and toss all the schoolwork and pieces of toys that are broken and then hit his closet with a flamethrower...uh.

Our room we lovingly refer to as "the pit" or the "room of doom" because it's been pretty bad 90% of the time. I have clothing in 6 different sizes including maternity, and now the most recent squishy to join our family resides in there as well as her dresser...and it's just a mess. It's where we throw things that we can't put away fast enough if people are coming over (or show up unannounced, don't you LOVE that??)

Ugh, I'm trying.

[longtallsally05]

Does anybody else ever look around your home and think: how can we live like this???

We have good hygiene standards in most areas but, yikes, our house has these little pockets of filth sometimes! Like, the grungy lint that's collected around the bathroom baseboard. Dustbunnies in the hall. Mud by the back door. Old food splatters on the kitchen cabinet fronts. That kind of thing.

It just seems like we barely keep up with tidying up clutter, laundry, dishes and keeping clean food prep areas. We rarely get to that "deep" cleaning stuff.

We do keep eyes on Sprog to make sure she stays away from those dirty corners ... but it sure would be nice to have a cleaning fairy!

Yes, I do. We have been in our house 18 months, and we still haven't unpacked all our boxes of stuff. These boxes sit in our formal dining room and in our office, so they are the first thing you see when you come in our front door...lovely. In fact, some of the still-packed boxes date from 2004 when we moved to Japan and had to leave stuff in storage. I think if we haven't needed it in 6 years, we don't need it at all, but DH practically has a heart attack when I start getting rid of stuff. The last time he deployed, I paid a neighbor 50 bucks to haul a load of stuff to the dump, and I lost track of all the stuff I donated to Goodwill. In the living room, we have two huge stereo speakers that haven't been hooked up since 2008 (two moves ago) sitting next to our (massive, ugly) entertainment center. We also have boxes in our master bedroom. I counted a stack of 45 tee shirts (at least DH folded them) and I found a HELMET in my bedroom, and I still have 4 big, unopened footlockers of DH's professional gear that he mailed home from the last TWO deployments sitting in my foyer. Because the office is a disaster, we blanket the kitchen counters with mail, and the dining room floor is covered in semi-neatly sorted piles of paper that are ready to be filed, except we have no space in the filing cabinet. It is tough to clean around clutter, believe me, I know. Did I mention that I have two kids under the age of five (read: no time to fool around with Craigslist), and that we are moving again in 6 months? Excuse me while I scream...EEEEEEEEEEK!

[hellbennt]

I posted this Clutterd Mamas, how do you Feel? (http://www.windsorpeak.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=335031)
which is pretty relevant to this thread...

I must say my house is a never-ending work in progress.I managed to organize two spots so far *sigh*
one is behind the front door (no closet & one walks right into the living room) - I put these cubes (http://www.target.com/ClosetMaid-Cubeicals-Cube-Organizer-Black/dp/B00362A1G2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&searchView=grid5&keywords=closetmaid%20cubeicals&fromGsearch=true&sr=1-1&qid=1296334104&rh=&searchRank=target104545&id=ClosetMaid%20Cubeicals%20Cube%20Organizer%20Bla ck&node=1038576%7C1287991011&searchSize=30&searchPage=1&searchNodeID=1038576%7C1287991011&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_ primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&frombrowse=0) w/ cloth bins in them, but, of course, there's stuff piled up on top (in baskets, but still over-flowing, *sigh*)...

and I did manage to clean out a lower cabinet in the kitchen to put ds' art/'office' supplies (again, let's not mention the counter above the organized cabinet...

little by little. right?

[Hawkeyewife]

THANK YOU for this thread!!!!!

We moved six months ago and just a few weeks ago finally got the garage under control enough to park the van in it though we are now inspired to get it all done in the next couple of months!

Anyway, I was reading this last night and decided at 10pm to clean our master bedroom which still had 9 or so boxes in it and loads of clean laundry waiting to be put away. At 3am I was done (DH slept on the sofa until I called him up), 4 bags of goodwill items and 3 bags of trash resulted from my night and I even cleaned the bathroom (it's spotless) and organized the closets. This morning I had DH bring a chair and ottoman I have wanted for my reading nook in our room. It's great! THANK YOU!!!! Today I reorganized the family room where all the toys are and it is great.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Next weekend I will be away from the family for the weekend for doula training and my MIL is coming to sit on Friday before DH gets home, it will be nice to have an organized home! Did I say THANK YOU!!!!!

[Uno-Mom]

Anyway, I was reading this last night and decided at 10pm to clean our master bedroom which still had 9 or so boxes in it and loads of clean laundry waiting to be put away. At 3am I was done (DH slept on the sofa until I called him up), 4 bags of goodwill items and 3 bags of trash resulted from my night and I even cleaned the bathroom (it's spotless) and organized the closets. This morning I had DH bring a chair and ottoman I have wanted for my reading nook in our room. It's great! THANK YOU!!!! Today I reorganized the family room where all the toys are and it is great.



Hey, good for you!!!! Wow, I guess my thread struck home for people. Didn't think it would become so cathartic.

I'm proud to announce that I got lots accomplished today. But the crumby, sticky floors are untouched. :) My inherited piano arrived this morning (YAY!!!) which meant the mess and boxes, boxes of baby stuff HAD to go out of the family room. Since I was doing a huge consignment / charity run anyway, I cleared Sprog's closet top to bottom while she and DH played on the new piano.

Can you believe how many empty boxes I found in that closet? WHY did I feel the need to keep the pac'n play box? The Ergo box? The boppy box? Weird.

Well, Sprog just spent the evening playing on the floor of her clean closet. I put toy and clothes buckets in there for her to unload to her heart's content. Nothing shameful about that particular mess! Perhaps tomorrow I'll consider chipping the grunge off the kitchen floor. But probably not - DH plans to make spaghetti sauce tomorrow.