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house woes

May 31st, 2007 at 03:01 am

I just had a week off from work, mostly so I could get caught up with some organizational tasks, but the house is a mess. An absolute mess. Why is it that I can either be organized but messy, or have a clean house with totally disorganized closets, desks, etc? Why are these two things to hard to obtain together???
On the bright side, I did clear out a totally congested closet. It took two days, if that tells you how bad it truely was. It was the closet I keep all my baby items and clothes in. Every time my boys outgrow clothes or toys, it goes into the closet to await the next kid. Since my youngest is two and a half, and we have not yet started to even plan for the next baby, much less have one, there was 2.5 years of junk thrown in there. I think I have a more organized system for next time. Maybe.
I tried to finish up the garden tonight, but ended up too frustrated. We generally have a nice garden in the same spot every year, but this year there was a ton of dirt dumped on the spot after the excavation of my brother's basement (he's building a house behind ours). That meant a lot of rocks and lumpy dirt. My father tried to fix it with the tractor, but I think the tractor just compacted the dirt more. It's pretty unmanagable. I'm not sure what to do, especially since I already have half of the garden planted. Ugh.

2 Responses to “house woes”

  1. tinapbeana Says:
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    i saw a book at the store called "the perfect mess". i was absolutely intrigued by the title, but haven't had a chance to drink a $2 cuppa coffee and read it in the store yet Big Grin the gist i got is that for some people there is a certian amount of disorder that is works for them, for lack of a better term. i really think i'm one of those folks: when things are all neatly put away i can never find what i need. when it's in organized $#!t piles, i can find it in seconds... weird...

  2. homebody Says:
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    Right now I am reading "It's All Too Much" by Peter Walsh and am participating in a book group too. Here is the link if you are interested:

    http://organizedhome.net/viewtopic.php?t=20651

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