Comments on: Mess begets mess, so try the vice versa

By: Rugsdoneright

Rugsdoneright — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:58:16 +0000

I think the best motivation to really thoroughly clean your your house is if you have a visitor staying over. Ideally though, one should clean the house thoroughly at least once a week.

By: JRae

JRae — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:56:23 +0000

“Someone hold me, I’m scared.” Lol! Yer funny…

I’m about ready to give up on the mess in my house and get a cleaning service or something. I’m just lazy…

By: PlanningQueen

PlanningQueen — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:25:25 +0000

I need to get better at sticking to a time limit. Once I get into a task I tend to go overboard and spend way to much time on it. BTW I have a free e-book to download on my my site that you might be interested in called Planning With Kids Top 100 Tips.

By: Jasi

Jasi — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:54:17 +0000

Growing up in a cluttered house with a list of daily chores as long as I was tall gave me a huge appreciation for minimalism. Today I live in a mostly empty house. Table and chairs in the dining, bed and dresser in the bedroom. Our only clutter lies in the attic… and it’s not even ours. Since we have “all that space”, family sees it fit to crowd their storage in our attic. Bummer.

By: bridgett

bridgett — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:47:12 +0000

This is just the kick in the butt I needed this morning.

I’ve been meaning to tell you how much I love this site and the work you guys do here…this seems like a perfect time to do so.

By: Shoofly Mama

Shoofly Mama — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:32:23 +0000

Oh, the clutter. THE CLUTTER! My dear hubby can’t part with anything, and I found a portfolio with all of our children’s drawings while I was packing to move a few weeks ago. I kept a lot of them (he was out of town), but I did exactly what JayMonster did…snapped digipix of them so I could rid of some of the clutter! Now, the children can get on the computer and scroll through the past three years of their improving artwork, and I found out WHY that darn drawer never closed properly.

Additionally, once hubby found out how much money I can make on craigslist, he’s become a bit more lenient about my ridding the house of things. I’ve gotten rid of over 12 LEAF BAGS of stuff, plus furniture, etc. That’s kind of sad.

By: Darla

Darla — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:46:44 +0000

OT: *HIGH FIVE* for standing up for a fellow christian blogger!

By: JayMonster

JayMonster — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:14:14 +0000

Oh, Oh… this reminded me of something we did some time back.

My wife had “had it” with the amount of drawing and pictures that we had accumulated from our daughter.

We didn’t go quite as dramatic as you did, but she was set to dispose of quite a few as well, but I wasn’t quite ready to dispose of “memories” quite yet.

The solution?

I took my Digital Camera and set it up on a tripod in an area with good light (so I didn’t have to use the flash), and photographed them. (For some, I probably could have used a scanner, but since some were too big for that, I decided to just do them all the same way).

So, now what was several storage boxes full of (now recycled) paper, has been reduced to a single CD-ROM (with room to spare).

By: Jolly Green Dad

Jolly Green Dad — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:05:35 +0000

Awww the clutter. I know and hate it. Unless I stay absolutely on top of it its get out of control. Had a relative that dropped of a box of dishes from my wife’s deceased Nana. Now she passed over 3 years ago and the stuff is dated, but of course we couldn’t NOT accept the stuff. Ugg

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:32:27 +0000

Sometimes I break this sort of cleaning into “5 minute jobs.” I’m very strict about what the scope of the job is because it can easily expand and take over the morning. Or seem insurmountable and never get done. So I stick to the job as defined, get it done and make a note for any other ideas I come up with.

For example, I decided to move all my baking supplies into a lower cabinet that my daughter used to play in. The project could have expanded to cleaning and reorganizing the whole pantry, but I stuck to the original job: move items from A to B. It got done lickety split and the kitchen is a little more organized.