Reese ran up to me with this drawing of a monster yesterday.
Reese: "Look! She's mad!"
Me: "Why is she mad?"
Reese: "Because her house is messy."
Me, laughing: "Is that me?"
Reese thinking quickly: "No, umm, it's [random name that has now switched a couple times]."
Good cover Reesey. Whether or not she actually meant me, I'm sure her artistic mind was subconsciously inspired by me. :) Seriously, when my house is messy I feel crazy and I really do get mad a lot easier. I wish it didn't affect me so. And while I LOVE a clean house, I am not a clean freak by nature. So I guess I'm mad a lot. Tom knows to watch out if it's messy because I'll be on the warpath. And I feel like I am cleaning ALL of the time too!!! I don't even know how clean freaks do it? How do you do it, you crazies?! This drawing made me laugh at the very least. I guess my mess anger is noticed. :(
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
She Has Me Pegged
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I am TOTALLY with you on this. And the funny thing is my house is never clean unless someone is coming over. So I am always grumpy at home. I really think it's because I feel like all I do is clean, and my house is a big mess just a few hours later. It's so frustrating!
I just noticed your "Just for laughs" side bar. Too cute! Someone has been watching Princess and the Frog, huh?
I hear you on the clean house thing. Except I don't get mad so much as I get depressed. When you clean all day every day and never make any progress it gets very old.
You know what I would seriously love? A group therapy session on this issue. For one, it would be soooo nice to hear of all the other people in the same boat (who we only think are clean freaks because they clean their living room before we show up). For two, it would be nice to get some good practical tips and tricks. Maybe your blog post will generate a lot of good responses on this. If not - maybe you should ask for some since you have thousands of commenters.
Here's my one idea that, while not perfect, has worked fairly well. I thought really hard about the most basic set of chores I need to do (besides daily dishes) (I'm sure it's different for everyone). I came up with: straightening the house, laundry, bills, garbage, paperwork and planning. Then I assigned each chore to a day. M for straightening, T for laundry, etc. I do get behind sometimes, but it at least helps me know what my weekly baseline of cleanliness is and I can feel good when I've reached that.
Also, I heard this awesome tip on Rachel Ray the other day from some "organization specialist". Basically - start on Monday! Take your hardest chore and conquer it on Monday when your energy if fresh. And then you don't have it hanging over your head the rest of the week either.
Seriously - do a follow up post and share some of your ideas!!!! I could use them.
I hear you loud and clear. It's the clutter/kid messes that get to me though. Not the dust/cobwebs/dirty windows kind of mess. I feel totally panicky and out of control in clutter.
Before the boy was born, I would start every morning in one corner of the house and work my way to the other, just picking up and putting away. I heard a tip somewhere (Oprah, maybe?) called OHIO - only handle it once. Meaning, when you pick something up don't put it down unless you're putting it where it belongs. So I OHIO my way through the house. I got to where I was pretty speedy. I can't seem to get back into that groove since the babe though. I need it back though - it's making me crazy. It's not like it stays tidy all day (I wish) but having it done in the morning made me feel better and more in control of things.
Take it from someone who's been through this a long while ago. I finally realized after too many years, that if I would keep my house the way I would want "I would spend all day, everyday, cleaning". I took so many classes at education week on organizing and cleaning, that my head would spin. I finally decided what my priorities were at that time of my life, and it was "the kids". Once a figured that, I was a much happier person. It's too stressful trying to be the "perfect homemaker".
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