To ask is your house organised?

[Bathcubesfromthe80s]

I like to think im ahead of the game in terms of being on top of stuff
We never run out of anything
We have a good stock of things like batteries/ light bulbs/sellotape etc
I make sure we have everything we need eg I use an online clothes shopping service. I have parcel tape/bags/labels to return things
Online weekly food shops are booked several weeks in advance and bags stored in the car boot for click and collect
All my cupboards etc are organised
There is no clutter/junk pile
I regularly go through clothes and charity/ book items no longer needed/used
The loft contents are in storage boxes, labelled.
I have a supply of recyclable carrier bags for bagging and disposing the chicken carcass from Sunday dinner
If we don't need/use it then I get rid of it

I've not always been like this. Our last house was full of crap. When we moved I took the opportunity to sort the whole lot and I was ruthless !

@ThinWomansBrain

🏅🏅🏅 well done?

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Have you got an endless supply of birthday cards?
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
Is everything in boxes and labelled away neatly?
Have you got a large supply of toiletries? Eg. 3/4 shower gels, 3/4 toothpastes.
Have you got endless Costco supplies of toilet rolls?
Is your ironing basket empty?

I am just starting out in this journey. It's very satisfying. Going to take me a while....but I can see progress. Yy to labelling everything!

@Ancientdecs

Wow, our house would have been sorted years ago if we just dumped everything rather than tried to sort it for recycling/environmental purposes. And we have actually already dumped a lot, but each time we do this I feel such guilt. There's no charity shops that's easy to get to for donations with 2 X full time jobs.

I admire your honesty Pegasus in pointing out it's the only practical way to get shit sorted - it's not easy to come out and say that.

Just. Be. Ruthless.

Working on it.

I’ve recently got one child-free day per week and I am devoting it to sorting things out, but it is going to take me months to deal with years of accumulated chaos.

Not particularly organised but don’t think it bothers me really. Household organisation isn’t anything I’ve ever been particularly interested in or aspired to.
I have Amazon prime though, and a few 24 hour supermarkets nearby so can’t imagine ever being perilously short of anything. I live in a bog standard 4 bed house, not a mansion, so it never takes more than a few mins to find anything we need.

Our flat is very organised. DH however never seems to know where things are though...

but I simply don’t have the time and it drives me insane as we live in semi-chaos which makes everything worse

But it’s a time saver being organised and far less stressful.
I and DH work full time in demanding jobs - and have children. I’m by far the better organised and the tidiest - I can’t stand mess or clutter. Storage boxes help to hide clutter and a ‘bin’, ‘charity shop’ or ‘put away’ mentality helps too.

@user1471554720

DDUW, thank you for saying that.

It is always the female feeling guilty and lazy about not having an organised house. By the time you have done a day's work at an office or wherever come home cook dinner, homework etc, there often isn't time to do all the organising/cleaning, particularly if dcs leave possessions everywhere. Also I would sit down for one hour each evening from 9 to 10 pm. I even tried cutting out this and continually doing tidying for this hour. After a few turns of this, I got very short tempered as well as feeling dizzy, so I had to continue taking my one hour break each eve.

I work fulltime and only started getting the energy to keep up with cleaning, decluttering as dcs got to 8 or 9 and weren"t following me continually. Also I got dizzyness, tiredness when dcs were younger, despite taking vitamins, eating well etc. I had to get up before 7am the 7 days of the week, had to bring dcs to parks, parties, sports at the weekend. I only got the basics done for years. I took annual leave to declutter or I would do this on my 'summer holiday'. It is very easy to get burnt out if you are working fulltime, continually minding primary age dcs and keeping on top of housework.

Even though dcs are older now and I can spend early evenings tidying and still take time to watch the news. However, I would never be smug and I don't broadcast this, particularly among people who also work fulltime and have younger dcs.

@user1471554720 I regularly beat myself up over my inability to manage all this and feel burnt out. Thank you sir this refreshing perspective

I'm middle of the road. I try to keep on top of things but with a busy job, long hours, many children, and some with additional needs I don't always manage to keep juggling all the balls.

I do go through cupboards and wardrobes and do sort outs, but not as regularly as I would like. There is clutter, but not loads of it. Kids usually have what is needed for school.

I definitely do not have the time to be this well organised ! Am not sure that I would be this organised if I did have the time!

Have you got an endless supply of birthday cards? Yes

Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Most of it

Is everything in boxes and labelled away m? Yes but I don’t have many boxes anyway

Have you got a large supply of toiletries? Eg. 3/4 shower gels, 3/4 toothpastes. Not a large supply, no need. Adds to clutter. But yes to duplicates of toiletries

Have you got endless Costco supplies of toilet rolls? No. Clutter.

Is your ironing basket empty? Yes

Nope nope and nope from me

AND I don't even give a shiny one on this.

Plus - I don't have an 'ironing basket' - thank God.

I am organised as in my house is very surface tidy and hate mess but some of my cupboards etc are messy. I am organised ie things ready the night before, shopping and future events.

I know it sounds cheesy

But I love having my home so organised and clean for the children
My daughter had a group of friends over for a sleepover and I heard them saying “absolutely love your home M, it smells like a gorgeous boutique hotel and everything so clean and tidy.”

Made me smile

Mostly. I try anyway! Everything has a home and should fit within that home, although as children get bigger some are getting a bit crammed! Eg the shoe and coat areas were ample when the children wore children’s sizes, not so much now two of them are in adult sizes!

I also live with five other people who are seemingly incapable of putting anything where it actually lives and who just dump stuff wherever.

Also I won’t get rid of stuff for the sake of it. Yes we have a few glasses too many but glasses can break so I’d rather keep them as back up than get rid of them and then need to buy more. Towels get threadbare or stained and relegated to floor cloths, but we have enough not to need to buy more as soon as this happens.

I also live with five other people who are seemingly incapable of putting anything where it actually lives and who just dump stuff wherever.

They are NOT incapable.

@LynetteScavo

I'm organised, but I worry that if someone else came and lived near my house they wouldn't know where everything is. I don't keep the sellotape with the wrapping paper for example. I've no idea why this bothers me because we all know where the sellotape is.

The only thing that's not organised is shoes. We have a whole under-stairs cupboard of shoes. Nothing I've tried in the last 14 years has worked in the shoe cupboard. We obviously own far too many shoes.

Tidy tubs for shoes. Makes it a game for wee ones to find their own pair😂

@Nonicknamesforcatapillars

I crash through life by the seat of my pants. I’m not very organised, often run out of stuff, have loads of crap shoved in drawers etc. It suits me just fine.

I work full time as does DH, I’m also doing a degree. I have teenagers who have busy schedules. Life’s too short to worry about a bit of clutter Anne occasionally having to use kitchen roll when you’ve run out of loo paper. Each to their own.

I love you 😍 I prefer to think of it as a "just in time" system

@lentilsforever

I know it sounds cheesy

But I love having my home so organised and clean for the children
My daughter had a group of friends over for a sleepover and I heard them saying “absolutely love your home M, it smells like a gorgeous boutique hotel and everything so clean and tidy.”

Made me smile

yeah, sure they did.

I'm the same OP, I was born like it 😂 I live alone now, but was the same when married and the children were young. The busier I am, the more organised I need to be.

However, I have nothing in the loft, as that's where things go to die!

I'm not tidy, it just isn't in me. My house is clean but it's not that tidy. I've decided to have less stuff overall and more cupboards - I think that will help as I get stressed by clutter but am not motivated enough to deal with it.

When I really need to address the clutter, I watch an episode of Hoarders (or that sort of show) and it fires me up ☺️

@SuPerDoPer

Why disbelieve?
I heard very similar once from my daughter’s friend

I once had a dear friend say they loved coming to my house because it was like a junk shop. She saw my face and clarified that she meant an 'interesting' junk shop. Or a bring and buy. Never forgotten it. She was shocked that I was shocked. She thought it was an aesthetic I had curated.