How neat are you?

ReenieHJ
ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
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I couldn't wait to get my tree out the door and now the living room looks clean again. I sense order and it pleases me. :)
Our bathroom should be mostly finished maybe tomorrow, Tuesday at the latest. And I can't wait because our spare room is cluttered with contractor crap and our year-round porch is cluttered with everything from our spare room. I'm biting at the bit to normalize that all as well. I sense chaos and destruction and it displeases me greatly. :)

The places people see have to stay clean and decluttered but do NOT open closet doors, kitchen cupboards or look in the basement.

So I'm not obsessed but I do crave order to a degree.
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  • The_Elephant_Man
    The_Elephant_Man Posts: 207 Member
    I like things organized and in their place.
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    pretty neat
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    dialed-in, for sure

  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    I like things to be neat and organized, but right now I'm happy if there are no dirty dishes on the counters, the bed gets made once a day and we have clean clothes. I run the vacuum and mop when I can and do a quick pick up a couple of times a day.

    Luckily, I have really nice people in my life that come over every couple of weeks and pick up some of the slack for me.
  • AndreaTamira
    AndreaTamira Posts: 272 Member
    Neater than my partner, less neat than his mum. Living with both of them in the same house is... interesting. 😅
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    I need order but I seldom achieve it.

    My toddler comes through like a little tornado but last night he shocked me by picking up his LEGO's and putting them back in the box. He dumped them back out all over the floor but at least now I know he will pick up, that he gets the concept.

    Me...I have so many papers and notebooks, yet, my file cabinets with folders in them are pretty much empty. I seriously need to organize. I sabotage myself with a great start and then I don't finish.
    Clothes, I have been getting rid of so many of my clothes that I just won't wear anymore and my kids' clothes, too, but again this is another area I have to work on.
    Less is more... Lastly, photographs, I need to scrapbook and put them in albums. I have many, many empty scrapbooks and all the fun accessories to do it, yet, I have lost much motivation. I need to get it together. I'm sad, as I truly am my own worst enemy.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,994 Member
    I'm OCD about it. Anyone in my gym will attest I'll rerack weights so they are uniform before working out. Or else I'll stare at it the whole time. I do all the cleaning in the house too so being neat does matter to me alot.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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  • Yoshiboobs
    Yoshiboobs Posts: 1,090 Member
    My house is a little cluttered. Mostly old mail and coffee mugs. Cats leave their toys everywhere
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,741 Member
    Yoshiboobs wrote: »
    My house is a little cluttered. Mostly old mail and coffee mugs. Cats leave their toys everywhere

    I dislike clutter and love living alone but cat toys left everywhere is completely acceptable. And adorable.
  • Yoshiboobs
    Yoshiboobs Posts: 1,090 Member
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    Yoshiboobs wrote: »
    My house is a little cluttered. Mostly old mail and coffee mugs. Cats leave their toys everywhere

    I dislike clutter and love living alone but cat toys left everywhere is completely acceptable. And adorable.

    Sometimes I think they killed a real mouse but it’s just their platypus or Christmas penguins 😝
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    edited December 2020
    I'm neat - yes I needed a dictionary (not only for spelling "dictionary", but for understanding the difference b/t neat and tidy!)

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    (calling myself 'excellent' may be a bit of a stretch! Feeling good today, feelin good!)

    *ETA, dang - I didn't even read the dictionary right - "pleasant" would have been a better descriptor

    Also super tidy (imo means clean - but does it??!)

    I'm clean, to a default ('cept that one junk drawer I'm 'saving' for a rainy day! 🤫)
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    @ReenieHJ I'm proud to announce that your post had me doing a complete inventory and a checklist of what must be done to be neater. I want to be organized in 2021! So today I started (again)!!! But this time I'm not giving up until it's as close to perfect as I can possibly get it. Thank you!!!
  • CaramonM
    CaramonM Posts: 263 Member
    Functionally neat
  • nelsonbl222
    nelsonbl222 Posts: 1 Member
    AndreaTamira wrote: »
    Neater than my partner, less neat than his mum. Living with both of them in the same house is... interesting. 😅

    What a predicament!😂
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Not very. I'm pretty tight about the kitchen for food prep sanitation reasons, but the rest of the house? Meh.

    When I had neat freak roommates I could comply with their needs, but the spouse and I have similar levels of indifference.
  • ExpressoLove11
    ExpressoLove11 Posts: 337 Member
    I am a bit of a neat freak and it makes me feel overwhelmed if there is clutter around 😬
  • taglazar1
    taglazar1 Posts: 277 Member
    2 fingers and no cubes neet
  • LoveyChar
    LoveyChar Posts: 4,336 Member
    northviewvintage wrote: »
    ⬆Same here. Before being a mom I was pretty messy, although I've always been really picky about the dishes being clean and the trash taken out every evening. Nowadays though, thanks to my extremely neat mom and grandmothers, I feel like an important part of being a good mom is to provide a clean, cozy home and feel guilty when I let it go. I count cleaning as part of my 30 minutes + of exercise per day.

    https://youtu.be/nLCEZ10G3yI

    I need to use this advice and make it part of my daily cleaning routine. My kitchen has to be clean, too, and I hang dry my clothes on an inside drying rack and a clothesline outside which is a lot of work. I really don't sit down often but I need to prioritize better.
  • joelo_1119
    joelo_1119 Posts: 120 Member
    I’m a “can’t go to bed with a dirty kitchen” kinda neat.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm pretty neat. My tree is still up, but we put it up the weekend after Thanksgiving and we take it down January 2 and haul it off to the composting center...always been that way.

    I'm not too OCD about things...I have an 8 and a 10 year old, so there tends to be stuff lying around more than I'd like, but it's also not worth the exercise in frustration of trying to keep every little thing in its place.
  • _sw33tp3a_11
    _sw33tp3a_11 Posts: 4,692 Member
    My grandma lived with us when I was a teen. She was a hoarder and kept everything. You couldn't walk into her room because it was so messy and disorganized. I think seeing that made me not want to be that way so I cleaned my room constantly. So often she thought I was on drugs because she said no teen was that clean 😆 God I miss her. Anyway, now as an adult I do the same. I clean my house daily. I also have 4 kids so I make sure I teach them some simple life skills as keeping their room clean and cleaning up after themselves because mom gets tired of doing it all.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,994 Member
    I'm also so neat and organized the I hang my clothes by catagory and light to dark from left to right. Same with underwear and sock drawer. For me it's much easier to locate things and also put them away once I get done doing laudry.

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  • KickassAmazon76
    KickassAmazon76 Posts: 4,678 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    I'm also so neat and organized the I hang my clothes by catagory and light to dark from left to right. Same with underwear and sock drawer. For me it's much easier to locate things and also put them away once I get done doing laudry.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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    WHEN (if? ) I hang my clothes, I also hang them by color. Lol

    Otherwise, I dig through the clean laundry basket. Haha
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
    I'll fess up. I suck at keeping my house clean. I'm a single mom with two teens that I suck at getting help from.
    I take full blame. I would rather be in my gym and spending time with them than do cleanup.

    Don't get me wrong, I hate the mess. HATE IT, but I do not do well with maintaining it. I feel like I have a million things that I need to juggle, and so I pick a few household items and try to accomplish those.
    But it's been too long since my house got a top to bottom cleaning, my carpet needs a vaccuum. The dust bunnies deserve their own cage by now... and I am sure I have at least two new loads of laundry to do.

    I just gave up on trying to do it all. Sometimes I don't even bother trying.

    So... do I feel like an abject failure when it comes to housework? Yep. Am I happy with my progress in my gym? Also yep. Do my kids care about the mess? No. Do I have anyone special in my life that cares about the mess? No. Ok then. One less thing for me to feel like I fail at.

    #losingforthewin

    I love your attitude.

    I come from a very large family. It wasn't until after the 7th kid was born that my dad added 2 more bedrooms to our 2 bedroom house. Things were always messy.

    My mom settled for "it's not a danger or a health hazard" attitude when it came to keeping order in the house. (Okay, it took a lot of work to keep up!) I've kind of adopted that attitude to my house for the moment.
  • KickassAmazon76
    KickassAmazon76 Posts: 4,678 Member
    edited December 2020
    RAinWA wrote: »
    KickassAmazon76 wrote: »
    I'll fess up. I suck at keeping my house clean. I'm a single mom with two teens that I suck at getting help from.
    I take full blame. I would rather be in my gym and spending time with them than do cleanup.

    Don't get me wrong, I hate the mess. HATE IT, but I do not do well with maintaining it. I feel like I have a million things that I need to juggle, and so I pick a few household items and try to accomplish those.
    But it's been too long since my house got a top to bottom cleaning, my carpet needs a vaccuum. The dust bunnies deserve their own cage by now... and I am sure I have at least two new loads of laundry to do.

    I just gave up on trying to do it all. Sometimes I don't even bother trying.

    So... do I feel like an abject failure when it comes to housework? Yep. Am I happy with my progress in my gym? Also yep. Do my kids care about the mess? No. Do I have anyone special in my life that cares about the mess? No. Ok then. One less thing for me to feel like I fail at.

    #losingforthewin

    I love your attitude.

    I come from a very large family. It wasn't until after the 7th kid was born that my dad added 2 more bedrooms to our 2 bedroom house. Things were always messy.

    My mom settled for "it's not a danger or a health hazard" attitude when it came to keeping order in the house. (Okay, it took a lot of work to keep up!) I've kind of adopted that attitude to my house for the moment.

    At least I'm not alone in this. It is a struggle for me because I do feel like such a failure as a homebody. I have good days and bad days and have beat myself up so much because of it. I am easily distracted, so often times I'll go to put something away and then find it on a counter and wonder why I left it there.

    When my hub and I split, the kids were young. And I would be so depressed when they were gone that I would work out because it was that, or eat my feelings. When they came home I missed them so much that I didn't want to waste time fighting to get them to help with chores or even do it myself. I wanted to play with them, snuggle, do crafts. A lot of times my cleaning was when they were with their dad, or after they went to bed.

    I was always running to catch up and spent many a night on the floor in the corner of my kitchen crying because I was just so overwhelmed with everything.

    The kids are older now, and it is easier. I don't have to work out at midnight, or stay up late doing dishes. But if I want consistent workout time, the house does suffer. Even when I harass my kids to help.

    I am trying to accept that I cannot do everything AND be happy and rested. So I'm letting it go. This may make me unlovable or inadequate as a potential mate... But at this stage. I really don't care anymore.

    I'd much rather do yard work, play with my power tools, or lift in my gym.

    IIWII (right @Revolu7? Please don't smack me! Haha)

    *it is what it is.

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