Comments on: Organizationally Challenged

By: SC

SC — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Dear Mamma,
I am new to blogs and this is my first time writing to someone's blog. I am pretty dysfunctional when it comes to organizing/housekeeping/decorating. Typically I am ashamed about this, but your blog lifts my spirits.

My mother suffered from this, too and I know she was hard on herself. But she was raising 5 kids, and we all turned out to be fairly decent human beings.

Give yourself lots of credit for being a good mom. Their childhood will go by so fast, and you will look back later and be glad that you spent more time raising them and loving them. When they've moved out, you can make the home of your dreams (or at least you have a fighting chance at that point.)

I started a blog today to help myself be motivated about making my home the organized and inviting place I would like it to be. But it is going to be the world's most boring blog - thoughts about organization, possibly lists of things actually accomplished, odes to post-it notes, etc.

Mostly it helps me procrastinate!
SC

By: Peg

Peg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:37:00 +0000

Better Late than Never!

I put up a post, finally, about how I did it, Mamma...see it here

You can do it!

By: nell

nell — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:12:00 +0000

I have the same problem, but all I seem to be able to do in order to cope is to actively not try to fix it. This is because if I had to have it clean, I’d do nothing but cleaning all day long.

By: Glennia

Glennia — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:42:00 +0000

I’m right there with you, sister. I actually used to be pretty organized, but my husband is not. At some point, I decided a happy marriage was more important than a clean house, and I just gave up. Now the house is filled with as much of my crap as his. Oy.

By: Aeptah

Aeptah — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:45:00 +0000

Sounds like my childhood… Although my mother *never* cleaned my room. And I didn’t want her to either! She’d just bag it all up and toss it. I started being in charge of my own laundry at 10yo. My house now is somewhat like my childhood bedroom. No actual trash laying around, just my piles of papers, the magazines I AM going to read, the papers I need to file, and of course the pictures that I am going to put into albums…one day. Funny, too, my sister just today told me about FlyLady. Thought I’d check her out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:24:00 +0000

Let's just say I have broken my toes more than once tripping over the things on my floor.

korie

By: Mert

Mert — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:23:00 +0000

I came here through many, many links! 😉 I can totally relate. My house is clean in general… except for the piles of miscellaneous stuff here and there, and the baskets of laundry yet to be folded, the dishes in the sink… You get the picture.

By: #2

#2 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:22:00 +0000

I couldn't find my shoes this morning. My husband put them away in the closet, and I didn't think to look there.

You're so not alone. I wan't to be organized and neat and tidy so badly.

By: BethGo

BethGo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:17:00 +0000

Me too! Me too!

Come over to my house and we can be messy together.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:59:00 +0000

I’m actually the opposite, but no less stressed. I have OCD to the point that the magazines all have to be piled square… my office at work is the same; I am obsessive about organizing. It drives the rest of my family crazy and they call me “Monica”….. so extremes on each end of the scale aren’t good either.