Are you like organized?

[dulcemariamar]

I am a clean person but I have trouble keeping my house organized. Like, I never put things away and wait until the end of the week to pick things up around the house.

Are you really good at putting things away or are you lazy like me?

[popcorn]

I try to put things away as I go or the house turns to shit fast. FAST. Like in the blink of an eye fast. I wouldn't say I'm super organized, but I definitely try to keep the clutter out (which is impossible with DH coming in leaving papers on every surface in the house!) because it annoys me. I am constantly collecting DH's papers and handing them to him one weekend and saying, "Here, sort this crap." It usually ends up being 90% crap 10% useful stuff that can be put in a folder.

[anna7602]

Not at all. I try to tidy up the rest of the place, but I should take a picture of my office. DH often complains about the papers flying all over the place in here.

I'm also really bad at folding laundry and putting it away as soon as it's dry. I pretty much just take stuff off the drying rack and throw it on a piece of furniture to make room for more wet clothes.

[allibally]

Not at all. I hate putting my laundry away. Especially now that I don't have an armoire. I hate drawers.

My make-up is a mess. My nail polish is always all over the house because I am always pulling stuff out of the drawers while deciding. I am suppose to get another storage thing from Ikea like the two I have but the last three times it wasn't in the budget when I went.

[dorothyinAus]

I'm very organized. I put everything away when I am finished using it, though I have a blind spot for folded laundry -- it can sit in the basket for days!

But I am rapidly getting tired of picking up after DH and putting his stuff away. It seems like all I do is go behind him and clean up, organize, put away, or file paperwork. And if I have hug up his coat or put his guitar back in the stand once, I have done it a thousand times.

[rhiannonsage]

I try my best..lately it doesn't matter what I seem to do tje place is a mmess! What gets to me though is all day I spend it cleaning and DH ill have to beg to put anything away and then I'm lycky if it gets done, yet if I decide to take a bbreak ohe dayhe complains at me for the mess (which is usally him and DD) sorry for that mini vent

[Cheesecake]

The fact that I did 7 FULL loads of laundry last Sunday should tell you enough...

We're both not organized. I keep trying to come up with new systems that work for 2 or 3 weeks and keeps the house all organized and clean and nice, and then, suddenly there's something interesting on tv at chore time, or I'm sore, or I have a headache, or we forgot to run the dishwasher and that 1 time not doing it, will turn the whole system to crap. The house will turn into a giant mess until we either have visitors over OR I suddenly out of the blue find an app or come up with a new system that gets us started again.

The cycle just goes on and on and on. I love love love it when my house is tidy. I just HATE chores. Honestly, if we ever win the lottery, I think the first thing I'll do is hire a full-time maid!

[NomadicMama]

ADD-me? Hell no! I think it drives DH batty, too. I simply don't see clutter. And, I find organizing to be mentally exhausting. But, when I get in the zone, I can hyper-focus like a professional. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen often, and usually late at night.

Madison--DH says that our kitchen table goes from perfect to shit in sixty seconds. And it does. It is a constant losing battle. I am so afraid of when I will see my table top after DH leaves. He's the one with the patience to clear it.

[popcorn]

Jun 13, 2012 4:41:09 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

I love love love it when my house is tidy. I just HATE chores. Honestly, if we ever win the lottery, I think the first thing I'll do is hire a full-time maid!

I feel the same way. Unfortunately I think to win the lottery I'd have to play it first.

[mrsukyankee]

I'm not at all organised...I try, but it's not how my brain works.

[Cheesecake]

Jun 13, 2012 5:06:16 GMT -5 popcorn said:

Jun 13, 2012 4:41:09 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

I love love love it when my house is tidy. I just HATE chores. Honestly, if we ever win the lottery, I think the first thing I'll do is hire a full-time maid!

I feel the same way. Unfortunately I think to win the lottery I'd have to play it first.

Honestly, I don't think playing makes your chances that much bigger, percentage wise (I mean, 0 percent or 0.000000000001 percent, same difference)

[doctoranda]

I am fairly organized currently but that is because I am writing my dissertation, the political stuff is currently on low for the summer, and I don't work otherwise. So I have tons of time and organizing, cleaning etc. is just a way to procrastinate from writing the dissertation. A lot of my friends who are also writing their dissertation told me their house has never been cleaner. But after the summer around election time and into the second version of my draft I am sure my house will be a mess. I't s a bit of an ebb and flow here.

[Waffles]

I go through waves of it but most of the time I put things in a (temporarly) neat pile to put away later, which usually ends up being days...

I then will have a bit of a freak out at the piles when they've multiplied and go round the house like a tornado - pretty much a tidying frenzy. When that happens, I can't stand one thing being out of place.

Doesn't last long though.

And I'm with NLfoodie: I love having a tidy house, I just don't want to do it myself!

[ktkl09]

Not at all. I'd rather take a nap than put the laundry away.

[crimsonandclover]

Jun 13, 2012 5:06:16 GMT -5 popcorn said:

Jun 13, 2012 4:41:09 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

I love love love it when my house is tidy. I just HATE chores. Honestly, if we ever win the lottery, I think the first thing I'll do is hire a full-time maid!

I feel the same way. Unfortunately I think to win the lottery I'd have to play it first.

Wait, what?! You do?? Crap. And here I was getting disappointed every week

Anyway, to answer the original question, I have a medium-low tolerance for mess and a very high tolerance for clutter. DH has a low tolerance for both, and that has what has caused the most fights in our marriage. I don't consider a few stacks of papers on a surface a "mess," and he does. It usually ends in him boiling over about it, me getting hurt by his accusations that I "never clean" (because it makes me feel like he doesn't notice when I do, which I do!!), and then both of us doing angry cleaning for a morning. The apartment usually looks pretty good afterwards, though. :-)

I'm also very bad about bringing in the mail, throwing it on the table, and then not opening it unless I know it's something interesting for me. Occasionally a letter or two for me from the health insurance company have lain around on the table for weeks because I just don't get around to opening them.

[clickerish]

I have always been hyper organised about my work. Folders, shelves, you name it. Not always at home for some reason, but I have had to become organised since I live with someone who can't handle disorganisation for very long. The house gets cleaned every weekend without fail and laundry is done by Monday. Every day someone makes the bed. We don't even sleep after having people over until all the dishes are cleaned and put away. It's sort of exhausting at times, but I guess we do have a very organised life. I worry, though, that having children is going to wreak havoc.

[potatopie]

I'm a librarian. And obsessive-compulsive. I will notice the smallest detail out of place. My brother used to stir the pencils in the cup on my desk to piss me off. I guess I get it from my grandma. My dad said she used to get mad if they messed up the vacuum lines on the carpet. I'm not that bad, but I don't like clutter and I like things in their place.

My H has learned to live with me. One of the reasons we always need two bedrooms.

[elenetxu]

I used to be until I started working full time. Now, I have DH (H?) at home since he's only working 1/3 time and he's the new organized one. I almost fainted the day he scolded me for leaving clothes on the floor!! It's great he's helping out, but that hurt.

[clickerish]

Jun 13, 2012 9:12:09 GMT -5 potatopie said:

My H has learned to live with me. One of the reasons we always need two bedrooms.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. People think I'm just being a snob when I say we have to have two bedrooms, but we really can't have one. I wouldn't have a moment of peace with only one bedroom. In my case, it's because I really need to be able to leave piles of papers when I'm writing.

[Deleted]

I'm super organized. I tidy up and organize constantly. I just love to see our place (whichever that happens to be) in perfect conditions, it especially makes me happy to walk back into a nice, styled home. I spend a lot of time designing the space and keeping it organized/clean kind of fulfills the vision.

[oneslybookworm]

I hate clutter. Hate it, with a passion. That said, I'm only fairly organized. DH is the real "organizer" in the family...but his comes in spurts. The house could be hit by a tornado, and he wouldn't notice, but then months later he'd get a hair up his ass about organizing, and the entire place will be put back together. Of course...it takes him DAYS what I can get finished in a few hours....but that's another thing altogether.

PS - Our house is currently a pig sty. I don't care.