get the whole house organised

I have to admit, I haven’t been the most organized or tidiest person. But I try. I really do. I have all of the bedrooms already cleaned and decluttered, I will start on the other areas in the new year. But it’s hard when everyone around you clutters and messes behind you. No sooner have you moved onto a new room, than the first one is worse than it ever was! It really gets me down sometimes. My other half is a pack rat and I don’t know what to do about it. If it was just me I am pretty sure I could manage to clear up after myself each day. But with the spouse and kids, well I just can’t seem to do it. And yes, I have tried making them clean up after themselves. They just don’t seem to be able to keep it up. I have tried leading by example, and nope that hasn’t worked either. I have had some success in getting the pack rat to part with some of his stuff. A lot of it in fact. But unless I actually get in there and pretty much do it for him it doesn’t get done. I guess I’m tried of being weighed down by someone else’s stuff.

I have started with my 2 year olds room and getting his clothes cleaned out and the kitchen is in better shape than last week but still needs work. We are in the process of remodeling our bedroom so that is a disaster and clothes yeah right if I could find the sweatshirt I’ve been looking for for weeks now. and once our bedroom is done I’ll have to go through the attic that will be right around the time I need to get the christmas decorations out i’m sure.

God, I’ve only just joined this site and I can safely say I’m about to tick this off my own to do list anyway. (totally worth doing, btw!)

We have got the house to a point where we really have to just do a tidy up each week. So after much throwing out and a huge effort over a long I will now mark this goal down as completed.

We had another big day of throwing out and organising today. I think one more big day of tidying up and we will be there. Very much looking forward to the day when the house is the way we want it.

Over the last week we thrown a lot of stuff out and done a lot of re-arranging. So I think we are well on the way to getting this goal achieved.

I am slowly but surely getting this enormous job done. I am just doing a bit each day. I have been doing it this way because I have had the flu. I hope to have a signifcant amount done by the end of the holiday in a bit over a week.

We certainly have improved our house a lot but we need to improve it before our baby comes in March.

but im getting there….i had to actually learn the principles of organisation….! but the infos out there and im loving slowlllly getting my life together to the point where I never lose or misplace anything, and can put my finger on anything in under 2 minutes! :) Ikea rocks by the way!

I’ve really done this!
WOW WOW WOW!
I am going to consider myself done with the main goal of getting the house organized.
Yes, there is still the odd corner (or counterspot) that I’d like to get all clear.
But the main part is done. Hurrah… !