So, this is something that a friend of mine always tells me at work because I'm a psychotic perfectionist and usually things don't have to be perfect, they just need to be good enough. I've decided to apply this concept to the house. Now it's important to note that my house is usually quite messy. :) However, when I go to clean the house, I make a huge production of it and it takes forever. I had visions that I was going to have the baby and have the house perfect and everything in its place, etc. Except that I didn't even do that prior to having a baby so what makes me think that now with having to take care of a baby as well, I was going to make that happen. So I decided that the house doesn't have to be perfect and clean and 100% organized, it just has to be good enough to keep us from going crazy with how messy it is. That being said, I cleaned up the house in about an hour and a half today. It's no longer driving me crazy and I didn't have to dedicate a whole day to it. I made little notes of what I could do in each room to help keep it looking organized and easier to clean for the next round. We'll see if it helps. The idea is that if we can keep the house a basic level of clean during the week, then the weekend we don't have to do anything or we can pick one specific project to work on like organize the hall closet.
With the extra time I had, I put in a super mini garden. So last year I put in a huge garden and it failed miserably. Not because anything died or didn't grow, but because I was too good at growing stuff. The joke became that I was working on a prairie restoration project. So this year I wasn't going to do anything, but I decided to put in 5 plants. 1 tomato, 1 green bell pepper, 1 red bell pepper, 1 jalapeno and 1 habenero. We'll see how it goes. :)
Now I'm off to organize the week so that hopefully my first week back to work won't be too traumatic.
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true words...and house organization is exactley as you are doing it...space by space...little by little and most of all, day by day!! you guys are doing a great job!
so how are the house projects coming along?? i started spray painting the swing...can't finish it until tomorrow...beans and i had to do some fishing in her pool...well we'll finish it tomorrow!!
That is how I feel on alot of things..."I'll start doing this when..." but I don't even do it now:) Good luck! I'm doing the same with trying to keep my clothes on the floor to a minimum:)
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