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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/29/2009 6:49:37 PM
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agapetos
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Honest? Nah! I've thought about it before, but I like my kitties being up there and I'd have to move those to put the ivy up ~ and the bands are really in the wrong place to hang anything that drops and reduces head room.
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 12:31:41 PM
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4IMPersuaded
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That sounds like one of the posts from the "bad advice" thread! Hahaha! I think that would work for me, too!! I'd have to take a second job, though!
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 4:28:01 PM
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That's not dust, that's your protective coating. You meant for that to be there. LOL
This is a great idea for a thread. I used to be fairly neat. Neat enough that it wasn't embarrassing if somebody came by unexpectedly, and I could really make the place look great if I had a days notice. I somehow slid into messiness. I'm fighting it.
Here are three tips that help me fight it.
1. Watch Kim and Aggie on How Clean is Your House? I HAVE to get up and clean after watching them. Plus, I feel better about my place after seeing their show. I mean, the guy who had maggots crawling in his sink! Come on!
2. When I watch television, I jump up during commercials and put at least ten things away.
3. When I cook, the first thing I do is get dish water. Then I wash anything I make dirty as I go along. While I'm waiting for something to cook, I clean the kitchen. You know, stir the sauce, wipe the counter, stir the sauce again, wipe the microwave. When I finish cooking I have food and a cleaner kitchen--and no cooking dishes.
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 6:17:09 PM
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4IMPersuaded
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Ooh, JustaFan-- some good tips there!
I love How Clean is Your House?! I look around afterward and feel much better about myself! I grew up in a very, very tidy household. When we were selling our house when I was 13, we didn't have to clean up for a showing-- we just lived like that! I don't think my mother meant to pass this on to me, but somehow I got the idea that the only way friends would like me was if my house was clean-- how crazy is that???
I have since put a few miles on the tires, so to speak, and I have decided two things. One, playing with my children at the park is more important than the dishes or the scattered toys-- they'll only be little for a few more minutes... And second, if my friends are so shallow that a messy house would have any impact on our friendship, then they aren't the friends I want!
Now, having said that, I much prefer the clean to the messy-- and I go a little koo-koo whem I know my parents are coming to visit! I'm trying to bring myself back to the good habits I had when I was young, tempered with a little wisdom that I've gained along the way. I do better some days than others! 
Now, there's a commercial coming... I think I'll do something useful!
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 9:29:52 PM
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4IMPersuaded
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Aga, That is very sad! She sounds like a miserable human being! BTW, I told a friend of mine that I've read almost every part of the Bible and can't find where it says that "cleanliness is next to godliness." She didn't believe me!
Its great to keep a tidy home, I'm not knocking it. I wish I was more motivated. A lot of it has to do with two kids in two years and working nights, but some of it is just laziness and not making it a priority. It really doesn't matter to me until that doorbell rings! What looked fine to me suddenly is horrifying!
Oh, well-- when stuff is working for you, please keep posting! It helps to hear what other people are dong!
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 9:58:51 PM
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Have your friend do a Google search on john wesley cleanliness is next to godliness
And since I'm already off-topic, I'll continue on for just one more thing.
HERE is a pretty cool source of quotes inaccurately attributed to Scripture.
Now . . . I feel I must confess something to y'all.
I have done something I have never done in all the years that I have been a member of Netflix (which have been several).
The other day I was going through my paperwork (remember my weekly paperwork chore I mentioned earlier?) . . .
It had been a pretty active 7 previous days, and my in-basket was FULL. Things to file, forms to complete, letters to write, etc., etc., etc.
I keep my unwatched Netflix movies in my in-basket. That way, I always know where they are.
After I watch a movie, I put it on my foyer stand to remind me to mail it the next day. This system has always worked very well for me.
Except for the other day. 
When I'm doing my paperwork, I will throw any paper that needs to be thrown away onto the floor, in a pile. Then, when I'm done, I gather up the pile of paper and put it in the wastebasket.
Well, uhm, as near as I can figure out . . . the other day I either threw away my Netflix movie, or else I filed it in a file folder. Don't ask me how I did either one; it's totally beyond me (especially, with those bright red Netflix envelopes).
But, I can't find it. Anywhere.
They say confession's good for the soul. I feel much better now. 
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 4/30/2009 11:22:32 PM
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I'm sorry - I lost track of your first post. I know it is around here somewhere...
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The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 2:22:25 AM
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 2:58:21 AM
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Hello! I'm BJ. I noticed this thread and I am sooo needing encouragement in getting my rat-packy house clean and tidy!!
I have been cleaning all day today. DH has been recovering from a really bad cold and was on the upswing today, so he took care of the little ones while I attacked clutter in our room.
I attacked...but it's fighting back...I think it's winning 
Maybe I shouldn't be going through each and every basket and box, saving everything in a micro organizational nutcase fashion...but I find I always end up doing this!!! Ooooh, a Penny, put it here, an eraser, a paperclip, a crayon...If I would just throw it all away I would be doing myself a big favor! I guess it's an inherited trait from my mom who lived through the great depression, but her home is tidy, though she has a lot of stuff.
Well, just wanted to introduce myself and tell you that I too am struggling with the messy side of life! I need to go now, and I'll be back, looking for motivation, and here to try to chear you all on!
I think its time to call it a day since it's almost midnight 
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 6:35:55 AM
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What does me in is the fact that nothing has a place. Where do those paperclips GO. In the drawer, in a little box. The little box is lost in the clutter and is smashed up so what do you do? Look for it, and in the process find more things to go thru. Then the box is smashed or missed.
I make a pile of stuff for each kid and it gets dumped in their room. Or the couch, or beside their backpack. Why? The have no spot to put the school papers / books / whatevers away. I know, I'll clean their room. Wait a minute, I can't walk in there. So, if I pick it up in the living room, I know I will be picking it up AGAIN when I do the bedroom.
And this has been going on for YEARS.
Now, I just sit and stare and the log on the computer, go fill my coffee cup, whatever I can do to avoid starting because I know the disaster that awaits me.
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 10:42:05 AM
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I didn't take it personally at all
I meant it in fun. It isn't funny, but e have to laugh at something. May as well be me.
Isn't that a flylady trick - invite someone over for dinner?
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 10:48:44 AM
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I love How Clean Is Your House!
Clean House and that other one similar to Clean House that has the slogan of "reforming pack rats nationwide."
They are all very motivating for me.
And while I try to do all things to God's glory...housekeeping is definitely one of my struggles. My mom is a perfectionist and a wee bit "too" tidy and I am trying to balance it all with the right heart and priority.
I have very few nick-nacks and they are all fairly large and easy to dust. I'm talking about baseboards and things I don't do as often. They tend to get noticebly dirty before I get to them.
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 11:07:15 AM
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I'll check out PBS to see if I can find out when it's on.
What's BBCA?
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 11:10:00 AM
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ORIGINAL: Howzat...
I'll check out PBS to see if I can find out when it's on.
What's BBCA?
It's the US version of the BBC (British Broadcasting Company). It's on DirecTV and other cable services. It's doesn't have the exact same programming as the BBC in England, but I still love it.
Manda? Aga? Is that correct?
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 1:32:04 PM
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I make a pile of stuff for each kid and it gets dumped in their room. Or the couch, or beside their backpack. Why? The have no spot to put the school papers / books / whatevers away. I know, I'll clean their room. Wait a minute, I can't walk in there. So, if I pick it up in the living room, I know I will be picking it up AGAIN when I do the bedroom.
And this has been going on for YEARS.
Argh!!! momma_bee, I hear ya!! Four of my eight kids are now out on their own and it has got to be a lot better. But the little ones have begun this icky state of affairs now and they seem to just naturally WANT to cover up their floors, I think they think thats the 'grown-up' thing to do since that was how their big sisters room was before they moved out.
I had been trying to nip this in the bud and gather up stuff and hide it in the garage till they prove they can be trusted with their stuff again. Well, I guess the keyword here is 'HAD" been trying. I'm so in the muck over my own head that it is simply nuts trying to get them going and stay there on top of it all!!!
Today, it will dissappear again...they can earn some of it back. I don't want them to be like me when they grow up...or two of their big sisters!
Two of my older daughters keep their homes like they kept their bedrooms...ikes.
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 3:07:28 PM
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4IMPersuaded
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gather up stuff and hide it in the garage till they prove they can be trusted with their stuff
I'm about there with DS-- he was pretty good at keeping his room neat in KY, but since the move, he's let it go. He's got the smallest room, so there's no where for the stuff to go if it isn't put away. I can't even make it to his bed uscathed-- boy toys are sharp on the bare feet! I've offered to help him, but he keeps saying "No, mommy, I want to do it myself." But yet...
DD is the one who remarked "how sad" when I told her that my mommy and daddy didn't allow me to keep my room a mess. Oh, boy. I'm hoping that we can change habits before they are too ingrained.
BTW, B-longs.. 8 KIDS??? Whew! Go, girl!
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RE: The becoming unmessy support thread! - 5/1/2009 3:38:15 PM
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DD is the one who remarked "how sad" when I told her that my mommy and daddy didn't allow me to keep my room a mess. Oh, boy. I'm hoping that we can change habits before they are too ingrained
I'm a lot like you. My mom was very tidy...so tidy that when my sister and I were playing with our Barbie dolls in our bedroom, and had just set up their 'houses' (LOL, beautiful two story houses that were actually miniature kid sized chairs! What imagination!), if it were lunchtime we had to put all our toys back in the toy box to go and eat. We were never allowed to use more than one drinking cup a day. We were never allowed to open the fridge or go in the pantry to get a snack...and Never, EVER were we to eat anywhere but the kitchen table or have a drink anywhere except at the table or right there by our sink. If we got a drop of water on the counter, or a few crumbs on the table we were to clean it up right now.
I vowed and declared that when I had kids they would feel that my home was their home and to heck with tidiness at all costs.
Now from another side of the spectrum, two of my grown daughters live in squalor! There has got to be a happy medium and I'm going to try to find it.
My mom is old now, has broken her back and been mended twice. Her house is still neat and tidy...she and my handicapped brother always have it clean and tidy even with their afflictions. They clean as they go and just don't mess up!
I now think I lean more in favor of my mothers methods after all!! Too late for my grown ladies I'm afraid, but maybe they'll come around...someday...I hope.
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