I used to try to “convince” myself of this. If I just put it off long enough…įor any of you who have the mindset of “if I just put it off long enough, it’ll eventually clean itself up,” it doesn’t work like that. Even when it’s a mess that no one else can see.

The more I felt like a failure as a wife, mother, and homemaker (because I couldn’t even keep our home in order… so what COULD I do?!).

And if they can’t tell it’s there, why does it matter, really?Įxcept it did matter, because the longer I let the mess be… …because other people can’t see it, anyway. The kind of mess that I knew was there, but that strangers couldn’t see.Īnd sometimes, that’s the worst kind of mess.īecause you can make excuses for yourself as to why it’s okay to keep “forgetting” about the mess…

It was more of a laundry-thats-been-in-the-dryer-for-a-week, toys-under-the-couch, dishes-hidden-around-the-house, I-haven’t-cleaned-in-two-weeks, but-I-quickly-cleaned-the-main-rooms-before-you-got-here, kind of mess. See, my house’s mess wasn’t such a mess in the way of everything everywhere. No one was going to come take it away for me.) (Which sucks, because it meant it was my responsibility to clean up.

To me, it felt like someone walked into Walmart, went straight into the “miscellaneous + toys” aisle, grabbed everything off the shelves and brought it to my house and asked if I could store it for the time being. My house was the kind of mess that only the people who lived there could tell. No, my house wasn’t the kind of mess that was blatantly evident to the naked stranger’s eye.

…is what people would exclaim when they came over and I immediately apologized for the mess, before they even stepped inside the door.įollowed by an, “if you consider this a mess… don’t even think about coming to my house,” Learn how anyone can easily organize their home + life. Inside: Does the thought of organizing your home and life send you running for the hills? Stress you out? Make you accept the fact that you will forever and always live an unorganized, chaotic life? It doesn’t have to be that way.

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