Wow....

[conuly]

After looking at the pictures on this site, and reading the descriptions, I'm not sure if I feel *better* or *worse* about the house.

At least it's not as bad as it used to be....

I have to clean.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I've seen that site before.

:/

[conuly]

Yeah, and soon Jenn will comment about how often she's cleaned our house....

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I need that site. We both HATE to clean. Thanks for the link.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Flylady works for me, once I have it in order. But if I let Flylady slide. . .it gets difficult again. :/

[conuly]

Jenn has, in the past, sworn by FlyLady.

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

THe room in that picture is immaculate compared to MYLA'S place!!! LOL!! Her CAT was lost for two or three days and it was in the house the whole time!!

[conuly]

Seriously, that's not funny. The house makes our former mess (much worse than the current mess) look comparatively... less messy, and that wasn't funny either.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

If you get past the annoying bullshit, and the "screw this, no one is gonna tell me to do it like that" and "STOP IT WITH THE EMAILS ALREADY" and just go on robot mode and follow it -- it can work.

I need that though, otherwise I just get distracted or depressed and it all falls apart round me.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

This is a similar situation. I had a cleaning and throwing-shit-out spree after I read the article. (http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/)

[conuly]

I'm going to go out on a limb and give an amateur internet diagnosis.

This woman has serious OCD issues and is in major denial.

And it's *still* better than our house was. Oh, there's more stuff... definitely more stuff... but it's cleanerkept and it's semi-organized. There's no trash on the floor, or the table, or anything. Just junk.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I have a lot of junk, too...though I have gotten way better about it now that I actually have the *ability* to recycle (they have someone come get the stuff).

However, I packed my apartment pending eviction, bought a house, and moved in by myself without taking any time off work, so I basically threw everything in the garage and I desperately need to clean it.

But then, I had a friend move in, and when she moved out, she left a bunch of stuff. Including some shelves, which is useful, but I've still got to go through *MY* stuff to sort out what I want to keep and not.

With my schedule, the very idea is fucking ridiculous.

At least I gave away a BUNCH of clothes to charity. I just need to go through the rest of my stuff (in my copious amounts of spare time /sarcasm) and get it organized.

Fortunately, the vast majority of my house is, more or less, clean. Even if I do just pile all the bills into a drawer (or box or whatever) to sort through later, it's at least all in one central spot.

The thing that scares me is all that CORRUGATED in that house. Holycrap, corrugated burns *HOT*, and *FAST*. If, god forbid, someone ever drops a spark, that house is going up in flames.

That can probably be reported as a health hazard, and if the woman is lower middle class, she should sell some of that stuff, or take the books/magazines/whatever to Half-Price Books.

The child in question needs to buy her a cross-shredder, so some of the stuff can be shredded. Yes, identity theives WILL steal an identity from anyone they can, so the concern is valid, but there ARE ways around that.

[conuly]

The child in question needs to buy her a cross-shredder, so some of the stuff can be shredded. Yes, identity theives WILL steal an identity from anyone they can, so the concern is valid, but there ARE ways around that.

She says her mom used to shred things, but stopped when it got to be too much. I suspect that any step now to shred documents will only increase the woman's anxiety... of course, I'm just assuming from what would happen to my mom in a similar situation.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I tedn to think that's what Connie needs too, but I have to wait for her to come to that conclusion on her own :-).

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I've seen that site before.

:/

[conuly]

Yeah, and soon Jenn will comment about how often she's cleaned our house....

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I need that site. We both HATE to clean. Thanks for the link.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Flylady works for me, once I have it in order. But if I let Flylady slide. . .it gets difficult again. :/

[conuly]

Jenn has, in the past, sworn by FlyLady.

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

THe room in that picture is immaculate compared to MYLA'S place!!! LOL!! Her CAT was lost for two or three days and it was in the house the whole time!!

[conuly]

Seriously, that's not funny. The house makes our former mess (much worse than the current mess) look comparatively... less messy, and that wasn't funny either.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

If you get past the annoying bullshit, and the "screw this, no one is gonna tell me to do it like that" and "STOP IT WITH THE EMAILS ALREADY" and just go on robot mode and follow it -- it can work.

I need that though, otherwise I just get distracted or depressed and it all falls apart round me.

[arikatt.livejournal.com]

This is a similar situation. I had a cleaning and throwing-shit-out spree after I read the article. (http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/)

[conuly]

I'm going to go out on a limb and give an amateur internet diagnosis.

This woman has serious OCD issues and is in major denial.

And it's *still* better than our house was. Oh, there's more stuff... definitely more stuff... but it's cleanerkept and it's semi-organized. There's no trash on the floor, or the table, or anything. Just junk.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I have a lot of junk, too...though I have gotten way better about it now that I actually have the *ability* to recycle (they have someone come get the stuff).

However, I packed my apartment pending eviction, bought a house, and moved in by myself without taking any time off work, so I basically threw everything in the garage and I desperately need to clean it.

But then, I had a friend move in, and when she moved out, she left a bunch of stuff. Including some shelves, which is useful, but I've still got to go through *MY* stuff to sort out what I want to keep and not.

With my schedule, the very idea is fucking ridiculous.

At least I gave away a BUNCH of clothes to charity. I just need to go through the rest of my stuff (in my copious amounts of spare time /sarcasm) and get it organized.

Fortunately, the vast majority of my house is, more or less, clean. Even if I do just pile all the bills into a drawer (or box or whatever) to sort through later, it's at least all in one central spot.

The thing that scares me is all that CORRUGATED in that house. Holycrap, corrugated burns *HOT*, and *FAST*. If, god forbid, someone ever drops a spark, that house is going up in flames.

That can probably be reported as a health hazard, and if the woman is lower middle class, she should sell some of that stuff, or take the books/magazines/whatever to Half-Price Books.

The child in question needs to buy her a cross-shredder, so some of the stuff can be shredded. Yes, identity theives WILL steal an identity from anyone they can, so the concern is valid, but there ARE ways around that.

[conuly]

The child in question needs to buy her a cross-shredder, so some of the stuff can be shredded. Yes, identity theives WILL steal an identity from anyone they can, so the concern is valid, but there ARE ways around that.

She says her mom used to shred things, but stopped when it got to be too much. I suspect that any step now to shred documents will only increase the woman's anxiety... of course, I'm just assuming from what would happen to my mom in a similar situation.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I tedn to think that's what Connie needs too, but I have to wait for her to come to that conclusion on her own :-).