get my house organized

So I am a step closer to being organized thanks to having to get an appraisal on my house!! A few things could stand to be a little more sorted through but it’s a marked difference than a couple weeks ago!! Now to conquer the garage…and to get my ex husband to pick up his belongings that are taking over half of the garage!!

I would say that I’ve at least gotten a couple legs of the elephant “eaten” off!!! Yay me!!!

This is by far the most overwhelming thing I’ve ever attempted to do!! Having recently been through a divorce I have been left with a lot of physical and emotional cleaning up to be done. I feel like every time I get something cleaned up it’s messed up immediately because I have to sort through things that still need to be split up with my ex (as with our marriage he left the work for me to do).

I know that once I get everything sorted it will get much better. It’s like eating an elephant…if you look at the whole thing as one bite you are beaten before you start but if you start with a toe the job seems doable!!

I moved into my house when my youngest daughter was 6 weeks old. That was 3 years ago and we still are not unpacked. I want to get things out of the basement.

one room at a time, and have the first cleaned room still be clean when the last one finally gets done!

Neatfreak is never a word used to describe me, nor do I want it to be, however, I can’t stand a mess. What I don’t understand is that I am very organized at my job. I have every unit I teach in it’s own binder in protected sleeves. I get up at 4:30 in the morning just to make sure I have everything ready. If you ask me to organize or lead things, I have it done, super organized and am over prepared. Why can’t I take that over to my personal life? I can clean and organize my house with the best, but just can’t keep it there. I would rather sit and read a book than do the dishes. I am no means a slob, don’t get that idea. My house is clean, just cluttered. I would just like to be one of those wives that has everything together. I also don’t want to be one of those wives that does everything around the house. I also don’t want to spend my life cleaning and not living. My husband will help out, but just needs some nudging. If I could just get him to put things away after using them. I guess if I would help him in the yard, he would do that. Well, i better start cleaning.

I have a storage closet that is begging to be cleaned out and organized…
anybody want to help
I am thinking I should just go out for the day and let you at it
you decide for me what I should keep and what I should get rid of cause it seems to me that other then the Christmas stuff
everything else is just junk that I for some reason can’t get rid of…..any ideas out there?

Well, I have cleaned up a significant amount of the clutter around my house. But it requires constant vigilance.

It feels good and I just need to not be passive about it and I think I can stay ahead of it.

I have struggeled with this most of my life. I have discovered that when I have a separate goal that requires my house be clean and organized it is easier to tackle, but I find it difficult still.

This has been impossible for me, so far. My house is a mess with papers, magazines, books and other stuff all over. I no longer can use my den as the floor is covered with crates of stuff. I’m still trying and getting no where. This holds me back on many things (like doing my taxes when I can’t find the records needed)

So totally worth it! I feel so much better now that my house is in order. It took a lot of stress away, and I can relax and enjoy my house now!