I've known some sloppy messy disgusting girls

but they looked pretty

and that's all that matters

that's reassuring! :D

my desk is so messy right now

i'm a stacker. i love stacks.

Less stuff equals less stuff to clean

My natural state is chaotic and messy (but not dirty, there's a difference), but when I get my neat on, I do it real good.

I'm a stacker too! Then I'll go through the stack weeks later and be like "there's that thing I was looking for!"

I'm pretty squalor-y.

I have become more willing to toss things out as I've gotten older. I think I still have way too much stuff, though. Way too many hobbies/collections.

I like neatness, but never have enough room for all of my junk, so neatly stacked piles of stuff are my reality.


And no matter how hard I try, I just cannot fold fitted sheets without them looking like the burrito blobs, lol

My mom will come visit and I'll leave the room for 15 minutes and when I get back everything will be tidied up. And then I won't be able to find anything.

I can't even make neat stacks. They're all leaning towers.

Fitted sheets are the bane of my existence!

Then I'll go through the stack weeks later and be like "there's that thing I was looking for!"


ha! Story of my life, Twin!

fitted sheets - don't use the elastic edge of your sheet as the corner. Grab like 8 inches in, then fold. :)

Tips and Tricks! I like that

i lack the neatness gene. :(

you make up for it in other ways! :-)

But gurrrrl, you got sexy gene in abundance!!!

i lovez youz galz!

Sometimes I like to imagine that God creates people like teenage boys create Dungeons and Dragons characters. You have so many points and you get to spread them out across different qualities. So, while I am high in charisma, I had to sacrifice my thieving abilities. Or, like, substitute smarts and neatness.

I also lack the neatness gene :(

I thought it might develop as I got older, but no joy so far.

I find it's just practice. Like, real practice, not half assed "I can't do this so why REALLY try" type practice.

♥

i probably do lack practice. i actually do often feel like "i can't do it right anyway."

as for the stacking, though, there's part of me that likes having everything "accessible". i want to be able to "see" everything that i think i'll need so i don't want to put it away.

As long as you recognize it and try to overcome it, you will start to get better and, thankfully enough, faster. One neatness tip. Rather than shuttle back and forth for each out of place thing in a room, throw all out of place things in each room into a laundry basket. Then circle round back to each room and take each thing that belongs in THAT room out of the basket and put it away. Huge time saver.

I think at least part of it is that I don't reeeeallyyyyy care all that much.

Rather than shuttle back and forth for each out of place thing in a room...

hahaha, I am the queen of doing that. When I'm trying to clean I walk in and out of rooms so many times that I forget what I'm doing and start reading something or making a sandwich.

my fiancee completely lacks it, i mean i'm not great but he perpetually leaves the lids off of things, (peanut butter, olive oil, bottles of water, booze) and it drives me mental. and he has socks all over the house.

the lid thing would drive me crazy. i'm pretty good at food stuff. but i do have shoes all over the house. like in rooms that don't even make sense.

I'm like Abi, i try to be better but in then end it's just not worth it to me. Except at work, I cant focus if my desk is cluttered.

Oh man. I always have shoes everywhere. Again with the lack of space thing - it's a pain to put them away because the shoe holder thingy in my closet is already overflowing.

Except at work, I cant focus if my desk is cluttered.

Same here. Big time!

seriously, i have mini panic attacks and just feel boxed in

i don't mind that sort of thing because i feel "cozy". haha. i don't like seeing dust though. i dust around my stacks. and under them when i'm feeling particularly enterprising.

marblecargirl on Aug 03 '11 at 11:40am
My natural state is chaotic and messy (but not dirty, there's a difference), but when I get my neat on, I do it real good.

That's a pretty good sum up for me. I am not good at maintenance cleaning, other than the kitchen- especially dishes. Generally, I have to do those and the counters everyday or else I get grouchy. I like waiting until I see something is dirty so then when I clean, it feels like a huge accomplishment.

In regards to sheets, I have gotten pretty good at folding- even the fitted one which used to be a blobby burrito roll as you say. But I found this video... something like this...

lemonalle on Aug 03 '11 at 11:42am
I have become more willing to toss things out as I've gotten older. I think I still have way too much stuff, though. Way too many hobbies/collections.

YES! Going through photos and throwing out ones where you or anyone you care about looks bad will change your life.

But who has photos anymore right?! Ha, what an old lady I am!

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I can't wait to grow up and be an old white lady!

WE ARE GONNA DRINK SO MUCH SANGRIA TOGETHER, GUYS! :D

i have boxes of photos that i haven't actually looked at in years. i bet if i pulled them out i'd end up just looking at them and leaving them piled all over the place instead of getting rid of them. i should get some photo albums. i used to love to go through photo albums.

YO!

MEET YOU AT CHI CHI'S FOR HAPPY HOUR!

I'm a total piler/stacker myself. At school, the rest of the teachers give me a hard time because my classroom can often resemble some kind of disaster zone on my desk and counter space. However, I also have what I like to call a 'photographic mess memory' because I always know EXACTLY where something is

Another teacher will come in asking for a specific piece of paper/memo/teaching tool and I will grab it from the middle of a pile that is stacked on another pile under some books without even have to pause or think about where something is.

It's embarrassing, sometimes, because I can never seem to get a handle on the piles, but every time I try to organize or clean up, I lose things, and never find them again.

I always have huge, grand plans for getting organized, but it usually involves a complete overhaul of the current system, which usually results in everything in the room being dumped in the middle, and then sorted into the new system. Which ALWAYS results in me getting distracted and playing with stuff that I find that I forgot I had and then me changing the organizational system halfway through setting it up.

Too many ideas, not enough concentration.

Also, if this organizational system revamp is happening in the bedroom, it always (ALWAYS) ends up with me sitting in a pile of junk on my bed trying on every outfit/combination of clothing in the closet, and not actually cleaning anything up at all.

pretty much my motto:

I can relate to all of that so hard. When I was teaching, the other teachers gave me a hard time because my desk was always in a gigantic state of disrepair. It didn't help that my desk was right next to the "lounging" area of the faculty lounge. I never really worked at my desk, though... I just stuck things there.

lol

THEN WE CAN WATCH SEX & THE CITY AND GET BOTOX INJECS

hahah Sara! I also never work at my desk. It is general open storage, haha.

also target has a one day only sale

they never understood that! our english department was composed of mostly type a people.

can we swing by pier one afterward?

Target is my second home.