From Homemaker to Hoarder: It's The Little Things

I think most all of us have the best of intention...don't you?  We all want someone to love and be loved by.  We all want to be financially secure and we want our families all healthy and happy and wise.   Most of us want a nice car and a nice home...

They make it look so easy on the sitcoms on television...you know it?  But anything that's worth having...is worth working for.  That's what my mom used to always say...and she was so right.  Mom was a super house keeper.  You never saw anything out of place and it was a rare thing to actually 'see' her cleaning.  Because mom invented insomnia and she did her work in the middle of the night. 


It was nothing to get up for a potty run and find

mom ironing at 2am...or painting the kitchen.  She was such a fanatic about constantly painting the kitchen...that became a long running...family joke. 

We absolutely can have pretty much anything we set our minds to have.  But Samantha Stevens isn't going to come along and twitch her little nose and make it happen.  WE have to make our plan and then just roll up our sleeves and get 'er done.

Getting overwhelmed with housework starts out so absolutely innocent.  You finally have a home of your own...maybe even a family and you're thinking you're finally "on top of the world looking down on creation"  And you feel so blessed to have such a cute little home of your very own. 

Then things get a little hectic and you put a book down here and throw a sweater over there and you put in a load of laundry and crash to watch prime time television in the evening with a big bowl of pop corn and a coca cola and you just set that bowl on the end table beside your coke glass and off to bed you go. 

The next morning you're rushed too...so you don't take time to fool with the book out of place or the sweater and you'll get that bowl and glass when you come in tonight...but you remember the laundry in the washer so you dry it while you get ready for work and just leave it in the dryer...only to be moved ONLY to the TOP of the dryer when you need to put the next load in because the first one hasn't been put away yet....
You head for work.. come in and get supper and you've had a bad day so you put the dishes in the sink and leave them there....Get your shower...lay out your clothes for the next day and toss the dirty ones on a chair in the bedroom....fix a tv snack and head to the tv...you now have 2 days of liter mounting up here and there...and the beat goes on.

Next thing you know....it's 6 weeks later and you can't see the furniture for the liter.  The kitchen looks like it should be condemned and you can't find a clean/wrinkle free thing to wear.  You feel overwhelmed and pouty and you're thinking..."Ooooooooooohhh poor meeeeeeeeee" when it was "Oooooooohhh poor YOU" who got you IN that situation...in the first place.

Geezer has a rule...."Don't put it down...put it away"  And he always told the kids "If you don't have time to do it right the first time....when are you EVER going to have time to do it OVER?" 

  

So this is how it starts!  See the pics below?  When looking at pic number 1 your feel peace and calm.  Now this bedroom doesn't have the right things in it to make it what "I" would call "warm and fuzzy" but it's very neat and tidy and it would be very easy to go into this room and sit down and do your homework with a clear mind and just knock it out of the ball park in no time....or write a love letter or a blog or whatever it is you're needing peace and quiet to write.  But see how just a little bit of liter makes such a big difference and as the days drag on...the liter that isn't being seen to...just gets worse and worse until you just need a bull dozer to get the job done.  I can't imagine living in a room like even #2...much less any of the others....goodness gracious.  WE ARE...WHAT WE SURROUND OURSELVES WITH....And if we surround ourselves with clutter...we are NOT going to be able to think clearly EITHER...We've going to feel the weight of the world on our shoulders and life just isn't going to BE...even nearly...as good as it should BE.


NOW....look at this living room.  WHAT a spacious and homey living room.  But goodness gracious sakes alive...it looks like World War III hit on the left....WHO would want to live in a living room like you see on the left....when you have the option of a living in a room like you see on the RIGHT? 


During my slumber party for 1...night before last...I caught a segment of Hoarders Buried Alive and it's been on my mind ever since.  It took one whole month to get that woman's home back to near normal...IT WAS PILED TO THE CEILING...all through it.   But goodness...at the end...they showed her and her mentally challenged daughter...sitting in the living room after it was all cleaned up and it was just super grand.

Since the doctor said I can hobble around at my own pace now....I did some work yesterday and it seemed SO SO good.  I replaced some of my little light bulbs that had burned out during this 3 months of me being down.  And I got out my Liquid Gold and did some shining....and I lit our Jack O Lantern...I hadn't even done THAT yet after we had the carving contest last Sunday....And just the little bit I did yesterday....made such a big difference.  I put some of my shabby chic things out that geezer said was too hard to keep straight while HE was doing the house work...my throw's and table cloth's and Shabby Chic pillows and this and that.....He's put my throw rugs in the attic of the work shop because I was in the walker for 10 weeks and then crutches...so I'll have to get THEM back out...but I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything neat and tidy...warm and fuzzy.   I want OUR home to say...."LOVE lives here...give me a hug"


I found the pic below when I did the blog on getting organize a week or so ago...and I am bound and determined to find those doors and do some foo fooing in the living room just as soon as I'm totally back on my feet....THIS ROOM is going to be MINE!   You just wait and see   :-)



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