I’m super organised and my house is always tidy.AMA

[Kitchenbattle]

Off the back of another thread I realised am ridiculously organised and my house is always tidy, always ready for visitors etc didn’t realise how tidy I was until I started commenting on and reading the other thread. So just a fun, or nosy AMA.
maybe there’s nothing to ask 🤣 thought it might be interesting though…

Ok, take away some of the socks... It's still too much to fit in to 2 loads!

One load is bedding,and maybe a towel or two.

There's still presumably at least 2 more towels to wash, as well as absolutely everything else...in one load?

At 5'6 and 9 stone 3 you are only just in the healthy weight range and I would expect you to be a size 8 or even a size 6.

I'm 5'6 and about 10 stone and usually wear a size 8.

I use a big plastic box for medications/vitamins. I don't have a cabinet or drawer available. The only way I've found so far to group them is with see-through plastic bags, e.g. one for paracetamol, one for decongestants. Can you help me find a better way?

I think decluttering is definitely the key to being neat and tidy. I've been trying to declutter over the last few years but I struggle to get rid of clothes. And I agree with your method of doing things as you go along...I read a book by a Danish lady and she said there was a thing called close the circle, so you are keeping things neat as you go. I hope your kids stay tidy...I only have one she's a teenager now and oh my god some days her room is a bombsite (other days pristine...go figure?! )

I’m 5’8” and 10 stone on the nose, and I’m also a 10 (I do have loose skin on my tummy, arms and legs though, which obviously adds ti my weight but at the same time the skin folds on my arms and legs don’t add much to my clothes size ).

Funny how it varies so much!

Omg so rude! Size 10 is fine. What are you, the body police? 😕

I never said size 10 wasn't fine!

Just that I would expect someone with a BMI of less than 20 to be wearing smaller clothes than that.

@BusWankers the OP said she doesn't wash all the bedding every week.

Yeah my kids aren’t grubby, my dd showers every morning and after training…

You really are determined to catch @Kitchenbattle out aren't you? Snide, awful comments - you sound awful.

OP, I'm very similar to you.

There are some horrible posts on here, really shows the worst of some MNers.

Do you have time for hobbies, reading, learning a language, playing with your children around all that?

Yes I have similar and then a smaller little open container for boxes of paracetamol etc

That’s a little rude , op wasn’t being snippy!

see how this works ?

I am like this at times, and I like the feeling you have when everything's tidy and done.
I find when I keep on top of things, it's easier to keep momentum going.
Recently I was told, I do this, as it's something I can control, when outside my home it's busy and obviously things I can't control, it stops my brain being overwhelmed.

I'm surprised too. I'm the same height as you, weigh a stone less, but am a 10-12 so a bigger size. Is that because I'm full of flab on a small frame?

Yes of course I have, plenty of time, I don’t spend all day every day cleaning. I take my ds swimming several times a week. I sit and watch tv with them. I take them places like the cinema, parks and lots of other places parents take their dc. I took my dd to Paris this year.

My box looks like a big mess though so I'm going to have to think about how to improve it...

It easier to keep up once the momentum is going.
if your house is already behind then it will take a bit of an effort to get it clean and tidy and then you can carry on from there.

Often this big effort is what gets people thinking that it’s a task and unpleasant. Keeping it tidy and clean is much easier to maintain and this is part of the reason why I don’t let it slide, it’s unpleasant to do a big clean once a week for example than just maintaining a rough schedule daily that gets things done repeatedly. Something about the sum of small parts….

It was only when the crisis was over / stress reduced that I was able to deal with the 'wall' stopping me doing things.

I'm 5'4, 8 st, size 10 in a dress, 8 in trousers. I'm slim but I'm quite chunkily built.

Do you have time for hobbies, reading, learning a language, playing with your children around all that?

I'm not good at keeping the house tidy hence why i'm here & I still don't have time to learn a language or read as much as I would like. What a stupid dig!

Bravo

Like @DuckbilledSplatterPuff , I'm interested in your storage situation/age of house. Our house isn't small, but there's nowhere to put anything! Case in point - kitchen broom/mop. Both live in the basement because there's nowhere to store them in the kitchen of this Victorian house without them looking awful/getting knocked over. (As it is, the hoover lives here - needs to charge - and I'm continually banging into it!) As a result, we never mop because it's such a faff to go down the spidery stairs and retrieve it. Also DIY is something we're terrible at - so shelves don't get put up/wonky things don't really get fixed. Are you /your husband good at staying on top of that kind of thing? (and how?)

I got rid of the shredder and got one of those confidential roller stamps that obscures data. Much quicker and much smaller!

No not all....
. I just don't understand how she squeezes a weeks worth of a family of 4 washing into basically one load. She must be using a load for the bedding each week, as she does 1 set of 3 each week... So how is she doing it?

I genuinely don't understand how she's fitting it all in...

It reminds of a poster who claimed she did her (1 person) washing once a fortnight, in a normal washing machine, including towels and bedding.... Just impossible!