Why can't I keep on top of it all ??

[CrackerOfNuts]

I tidy, turn around and it is messy.

Well ok ok, I probably don't tidy enough, but jesus christ where the hell does it all come from.

I had a skip only 2 weeks ago, and cleared a load of junk out, so I know it isn't stuff that isn't needed, but arghhhhhhhhhh it is driving me potty.

Yep, know the feeling. Sometimes it feels like the house is built on top of a landfill and it is seeping up through the floorboards...

probably coz you have kids? know the feeling i was sorting the toys today and i swear i had to keep putting the same ones back again and again and again! and tommorrow while i am washing up or doing upstiars i am failrly dd1 wil be unorganising my neatly piled toys!

Yep, daily i have this issue. I KNOW its because we dont have that gene that makes us put stuff back when we are done with it...but still.
Amazes me how it stays messy for a long time, but tidy for seconds

Well thank god I am not the only one anyway.

We seem to have shoes bloody everywhere.

I am giving the kids a pound on sunday for non littering. A penny removed for each bit of rubbish that SHOULD be in the bin. Is working well.

Don't tidy up till the end of the day or you will find yourself doing it over and over again.
I go crazy when DP goes into the kitchen and leaves crumbs all over MY freshly wiped table. AAArrgghhh!!!!

...and give your kids a pep talk - they're old enough to tidy up after themselves!

Hmm i'd rather pay myself to do it CC LOL.

oh god, shoes everywhere, dont talk to me about shoes...

Maybe your kids could pay you?!

lol at shoes everywhere.

I think the thing to do is to deal with it at once.

Get out the jam for toast - put it away when finished with.

Fold up washing - put it in a drawer.

Finish your game - put the bits back in the box.

Come in - hang up coat, shoes on rack, sort out book bag and put away.

I know it sounds a pain but I promise you it works.

Mind you there are still unexplained piles of random clutter all over th ehouse - but it's part of DH's masterplan so I try not to interfere

my dd only ever seems to have one full pair of shoes and lots of odd ones coz for some unknown reason she seems to take off a different shoe different rooms! takes me ages to find them all again! altough i did find quite a few of them in her toy box today

Currently there is a pile of shoes in the shoe box, but then we have dd1's school shoes at the top of the stairs, ds's converse on the stairs, and 1 pink croc all alone in the garden.

I have to say I quite like it when DH takes DD away for a few days. I can then get the house tidy and it stays that way. Weird, huh?

I just do things bit by bit,
flylady really helped me get into the habit and helped me shape Dh into a similar habit.

cracker we had a skip 2 wks ago and filled it too

I've since put another two boot loads to the tip AND 4 bin bags to the charity shop

just keep going we'll soon both have nothing left in the house to cause a mess lol

I bought one of these and put it in the porch for their shoes and its working, well so far at least

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