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creationtalk -> RE: struggling with being messy??? (8/4/2008 11:35:31 AM)
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As has already been commented, I don't struggle with being messy, it comes naturally. Of course, I am also the quintessential packrat AND I still have things from storage/former office in the house from Hur Katrina...
The ironic thing is that once up on a time I was VERY organized. I could put my hand on the purchase reciept for an appliance I bought 4 years ago in minutes. I knew where every penny went and, although I had a lot of coupons, they were all carefully filed under either category or expiration date.... Then I had a child...now I'm lucky that my head is attached since that means that most of the time I can find it...might not be able to get a useful, coherent thought out of it, but at least I know where it is...
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Do you close your bedroom door because you dont want others to see all the clothing on the floor and other mess?
Yes, but it's getting better. Part of the problem is very little storage space and some very space-intensive hobbies (knitting, crochet, quilting, beading, other needlework, painting and drawing, reading, writing) and career/jobs--teaching (university level and homeschool), research...with associated papers.
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Do you get anxious when someone last minute needs a ride and the car is messy -again!
NOt exactly, but I do sometimes wonder (1) how the truck got this messy this quick and (2) can I move enough of the junk to be able to fit another person in (truck seats 6--there are 2 of us usually).
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Do you almost never put things back where they belong ASAP? and you do it consistently and when you look around 3 days later, its like a tornadoewent through?
I'm fairly good at putting things where they belong...if I can find a place where they can belong...and I have a tornado go through my house on a regular basis...he's about 50 inches tall, talks inssently and holds my heart...
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Do you not sort your mail/junk mail ASAP and a few weeks later look at your desk and its a pile of mess...AND you missed that court date again or that bill cause you didnt know where the papers were?
Do you hold on to the junk mail/market flyers promising to look at it later (yeah right) and it stacks up?
I HAVE a desk???? Wow! That means the pile is only half as tall as I thought! I don't very often miss bills, I always sort the bills from other things and put them in a specific place...also most are paid online the weekend after my first paycheck of the month...
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Do you have a file cabinet, but its practically empty cause all the papers are under the bed or on the desk or anywhere except the file cabinet?
Papers are under the bed, on the desk, and in boxes because the file cabinet is full and I don't have room for a second.
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Do you complain about not having enough money, yet you throw food away cause you dont keep up w/the inventory in the fridge, so the food goes bad cause you didnt know that was there?
I am often frustrated because food goes bad then has to be thrown away...but usually this happens not because I didn't know it was there, but because I planned to cook it one night...but then had to work late so it got delayed...but the next night couldn't cook it because we had something else planned and didn't have time...then don't want to cook a big meal because....planned to take care of the food and get it frozen or otherwise but forgot/didn't get it done because there was an emergency or something happened or I was too tired and forgot. The most frustrating thing is I have food in hte cabinents that expired 2 years ago because I've never had time to cook it.
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Are you great at work at maintaining things and keeping them organized, but at home, you dont give it the same respect???
Work is similar to home in a lot of ways--we have so much going on that the "cleanup" often doesn't happen until it gets critical...it's not quite as cluttered simply because most of our "mess" is on the computer.
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