Maybe I'm too full of myself right now,
but I've turned a corner I think/hope and I wanted to start a support thread for those of us without a neat gene. I hope people want to join and participate!
A little history: I've ALWAYS been a slob, in college, after college, always. My idea of cleaning was shoving everything into a closet and out of sight. Once it was in the closet things looked clean, I was good at faking that, but I could never, never open the door again, let alone find things that need to be found and actually use them again.
The reality: This is a HUGE waste of time, energy, emotional energy, and money. Money because I would re-buy things I already have because I couldn't find them. I've moved a bunch, and getting myself out of places was always so much harder than it looked because my closets were packed to the gills with junk, trash, whatever.
Thankfully, thankfully I have a neat DH. I confess to almost breaking him, but instead I've learned from him, and one of my major breakthroughs was when our house was on the market for 2 months. I HAD to keep it neat, and I think I realized a lot about what it takes to keep something neat. I also realized that it feels good.
One of the "funny" things that happened to me was realizing that I had two copies of the book "It's All Too Much", yup, two copies of a de-cluttering book because I had too much clutter to find or remember that I already had one!
OK, this is already long, so the next post will be the starting tips that I have.
A little history: I've ALWAYS been a slob, in college, after college, always. My idea of cleaning was shoving everything into a closet and out of sight. Once it was in the closet things looked clean, I was good at faking that, but I could never, never open the door again, let alone find things that need to be found and actually use them again.
The reality: This is a HUGE waste of time, energy, emotional energy, and money. Money because I would re-buy things I already have because I couldn't find them. I've moved a bunch, and getting myself out of places was always so much harder than it looked because my closets were packed to the gills with junk, trash, whatever.
Thankfully, thankfully I have a neat DH. I confess to almost breaking him, but instead I've learned from him, and one of my major breakthroughs was when our house was on the market for 2 months. I HAD to keep it neat, and I think I realized a lot about what it takes to keep something neat. I also realized that it feels good.
One of the "funny" things that happened to me was realizing that I had two copies of the book "It's All Too Much", yup, two copies of a de-cluttering book because I had too much clutter to find or remember that I already had one!
OK, this is already long, so the next post will be the starting tips that I have.