tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2006649500326109834.post3244613537423536804..comments2023-06-11T08:00:23.276-07:00Comments on From Infertility to 2 Amazing Little Boys, This is My Life.: Organizing Your House!Brandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02700381836723709672noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2006649500326109834.post-45880714739636715672011-12-01T13:17:49.199-08:002011-12-01T13:17:49.199-08:00@Jo, I did become a little more OCD after having D...@Jo, I did become a little more OCD after having Dylan and especially when I wasn't holding him 24/7 because then I had the time to do it. But the clutter, we purge, re organize and then a few months later we do it again because sometimes you just aren't in the mood to let go of something and then later you go back to it and it's a no-brainer to get rid of it:)<br /><br />@Anonymous, I have a MIL that likes to SEE her gifts when she comes to visit every 3-4 years. I played that for about 6 years and then I said enough. She'd send a huge box of crap. My birthday this year, she sent a $15 gift card to Starbucks and I was over joyed!!! Something I love and will use!!<br /><br />@Anonymous, The first time I tried this with my mom was 5 years ago. It didn't go well, we just stopped about 30 minutes into it. That really hit home about you getting unsettled with the mess the same way she does when you clean. If my family is over and I clean or if I'm at my mom's house and I just step into the kitchen to wipe her counters and load the dishes after dinner, she does get a little frantic even though I voluntarily did it and I totally don't mind.Brandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700381836723709672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2006649500326109834.post-70898713218151275722011-12-01T08:51:35.870-08:002011-12-01T08:51:35.870-08:00I feel I have the SAME thing happening with my mom...I feel I have the SAME thing happening with my mom and I. But I could NEVER get my mom to throw her crap out. So that sounds like a big deal, what you accomplished. With my mom, whenever I clean after her the crap reappears pretty soon after. I gave up a long time. I know that my mom is more emotionally attached to her crap and there is a lot more to it than just not being organized. Although she is not collecting boxes or disgusting things. Still, I like things clean and everything has a place. Not so with her. She gets as unsettled when I clean as I get when I'm around a mess/dirt. :-/<br />It was so nice to read your post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2006649500326109834.post-82415583297507485492011-12-01T08:45:11.640-08:002011-12-01T08:45:11.640-08:00About tacky or unwanted gifts. I think it depends ...About tacky or unwanted gifts. I think it depends on your relationship with the person and how often you see them. I don't see my parents, who live out of state, often so I pretty much take their gifts and put them out when they come around. The rest of the time I store them away. But I do that because otherwise there will be a big fight or my mom will be passivve aggressive and feel like I am unappreciative. To avoid that, I do what I said. But if I see a person alot and still get an unwanted gift plus there is a more positive relationship I might have the thing out more because it may make them feel appreciated. But then after a while I pretend I am moving things around and take it out. Of course my initial reaction if the gift is unwanted is "WHAT THE F*#@! ASK ME WHAT I REALLY WANT OR NEED!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2006649500326109834.post-54813010829211884992011-11-29T12:10:25.344-08:002011-11-29T12:10:25.344-08:00I love this post! I am super OCD when it comes to ...I love this post! I am super OCD when it comes to clutter and organizing. Clutter literally drives me crazy. As for the general cleanliness of our house, I’m not crazy anal about it. If the dishes sit in the sink until the next day because hubby and I want to spend some time together after supper I don’t worry about it. The way I see it is as long as the floors are swept and vacuumed, things are dusted and wiped on a regular basis and the bathroom is clean, I’m ok with that. I’m sure I will change my tune when we are preparing for and have kids in the house and I will probably become some crazed cleaning lady haha. <br /><br />Keeping things organized is so essential though to keeping the house looking good. If you aren’t organized and everything is just everywhere, that to me looks worse than a pile of dirt. We just went through all our closets and purged things last week and its crazy how much junk accumulates when you don’t sort through things on a regular basis.<br /><br />As for Christmas gifts, I kind of have it good in a way. Both of our entire families live in a different province then we do so we ask for money and /or gift cards and put them toward things we need or want. We intend to do the same when we have kids to get things we know they will use and like. As for some of the things we may get from people close by, I have no problem getting rid of something we don’t like or don’t use. But on the other hand no one who is close to us ever visits us, we always go to them so they don’t know we got rid of whatever they gave us. I would have no problem with telling them that it just wasnt something we used so why not donate it to someone who would.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05737972081848105715noreply@blogger.com