aislinnv is feeling stressed
Ok, I'm messy
4 years ago
I’m messy. The person I live with is messy. Bits of the house get tidied – then they get messy again. I think I need to take a week off work and just get things organized.
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We're in the exact same boat
Me and my husband are both SLOBS. I think the best thing to do is take a day or two off and just take care of it. That’s what I did on Wednesday. I was doing just what you’re talking about. Just make a dent, get busy/tired/whatever, and everything would go right back to the way it was. I felt like I was drowning in this never ending cycle of clutter. Now that I’ve done a lot (a WHOLE lot) I think it’ll be easier to maintain because it doesn’t seem so daunting and futile.
aislinnv is feeling stressed
I’m trying to get this done by tackling one small thing at a time – get that sorted, make one small change so it doesn’t get to that state again, and move on.
For example, I hoard magazines. Don’t mean to, just never seem to throw them out. So I took a day off work to sort that out. (see here: http://www.43things.com/people/progress/aislinnv/2045581)
Got rid of about half of them so far. That’s the ‘thing sorted’ bit. The ‘small change’ bit is the ‘one in, one out’ principle: when a new magazine enters the house, the last issue of it goes in the bin. I’ve stuck to it so far…but it’s only been a week.
While that will work for a lot of the mess (if you keep up the new habits), it won’t fix it all. What do you do with the stuff you need to keep, but haven’t anywhere to put away?
Well, I haven’t yet figured out the “keep but nowhere to put” stuff. Mostly it goes in our closets. Some stuff I don’t NEED to keep but hate to throw away cause it’s some perfectly good thing. I’m gonna garage sale what I can, but some of it is, like, my mother-in-law gives me some kinda costume jewelry or something every christmas. I don’t wear it, don’t need it, don’t want it can not let her see it in a garage sale.
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