Do you use any tools? Do you keep your house tidy?
Are there tricks to keeping things orderly? Do you keep paperwork well?
Bah! You're kidding, right? I gave all that stuff up when I vowed to be free of the daily planner after my mission!
As to the house being tidy... yeah, right... a man and a woman who are clinical perfectionists get married and then have a familiy of children... and you want a tidy house? We're lucky if it stays cleaned for a couple hours after we straighten up!
Consistency is the key, and everyone in the house has to do their part. Paperwork... you need to decide what is important and what is not, and then put it where it belongs... consistently.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
You know those facets of personality where the perfectionist believes she can never perform perfectly and thus won't even try and where the perfectionist lives in a constant state of chaos yet knows exactly where things are within the chaos? Yeah, that's me.
(Maybe slightly moderated--I do try sometimes, and there are a few things I can't locate. The first is credited to my husband, the second to the kids.)
Do you use any tools? Do you keep your house tidy?
Are there tricks to keeping things orderly? Do you keep paperwork well?
Bah! You're kidding, right? I gave all that stuff up when I vowed to be free of the daily planner after my mission!
As to the house being tidy... yeah, right... a man and a woman who are clinical perfectionists get married and then have a familiy of children... and you want a tidy house? We're lucky if it stays cleaned for a couple hours after we straighten up!
Consistency is the key, and everyone in the house has to do their part. Paperwork... you need to decide what is important and what is not, and then put it where it belongs... consistently.
Isn't that the truth. I can have the kids clean a room and literally turn my back and it is a mess again. Overnight can make it even worse! As long as it isn't a health hazard, I sometimes have to turn a blind eye. Otherwise it would drive me crazy. I was kind of a neat freak before having kids, especially in the common areas.
If the kids won't pick up their toys, I just use a trash bag and dispose of them. I give them fair warning. I have only had to do it a couple times but it works.
Method of organizing and keeping house clean...? Chuck it.
If something keeps getting cluttery(yes, that is a word, I think) I get rid of it.
Deseret Industries sends me Christmas Cards. In fact, I've gotton so good at getting rid of stuff, I wonder what I'll do when it's all gone. We don't replace it. Yet...it's never all gone. It keeps materializing....matarealizing... meteriala... showing up.
I am the queen of decluttering. If you don't want it, use it, LOVE it - it goes. I don't care how useful it is. I claim Law of Consecration rights. No hoarding around here.
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"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
I'm fond of the garbage bag cleaning system too, Jase. :)
--Ray
Be careful Ray, you and I will end up and the bad parent list! You've already been there once!
Seriously though, my kids never missed a toy I threw away. I've thrown dozens of naked barbie dolls away and even with no naked Ken dolls, they still seem to reproduce!
