Worst thing about DG?

Wow jdee, your computer desk is immaculate! It would take me a week to dig through the 6in pile on mine! Maybe one of these days I'll get to it!

Starr, we sound a lot alike!! I work in clutter too. My house is so small, it's hard to not have clutter.

Thank you. I think maybe it's because I don't work. Being a full time homemaker gives me more time to keep house than when I was working.

Hmmm....what's my excuse? I was a full-time homemaker till Sept. when I went back to school. Guess I'm just lazy ;-) In the summer I try to be outside as much as possible so I always tell myself that when the kids go back to school, things will settle down and I'll start doing better on my housework. Well now that they're back in school, all I do is homework and visit DG! I used to belong to a website called FlyLady.com. It was really neat and full of great ideas. I still use a lot of her ideas, but I haven't been a member for almost 2 years now.

mgh, size of house does not matter.... larger house=more clutter!!!

Also, if inside of house was outside, (or in my horse barn), I would pay more attention to it... lol... hay, it gets cleaned once in awhile, whether it needs it or not... I just tell everyone who comes that it's the maids week off... lol... a friend of mine says that an immaculate house is the sign of a sick mind... if that is true then I am just ok... if you want to see clean and organized we will go sit in my barn... :))

I would love to come sit in your barn!! But mainly because....call me crazy....I love the smell of horses! One of the best smells in the world!

We have a company here in Brevard named Flylady. I wonder if they are one and the same?

Yep, that's the one!

I have to slip in late at night or early in the morning when the rest of my family are not fighting for the computer. It was easier this summer when one daughter was in college housing & the other a camp counselor. Only had to take turns with DH. If I slip in at work, I don't get anything done!

Wanda, Make THEM wait for YOU to get off puter... better yet, get your own puter... :) ... a laptop, so you can hide it... :))

mgh, You're not crazy... horses do smell good... did ya know that the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person? It's the truth... they keep me sane... and smilin' (and so does DG's now that I found it)

No WAY! if my DH & daughters read half the stuff I put on here, they'd NEVER let me go to a Round Up! None of them knew me when I was young & crazy. Just old & batsy!

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Starr, I like that saying! So true!

Think I might get a laptop too. We upgraded our computer and gave the boys the old one. Now we have one kid on the old computer and one on the new computer!! I keep telling them that wasn't the plan, but they just don't listen! If it's this bad now and they are only 4 and 61/2, what is it going to be like when they are teenagers?! YIKES!!

You will need mega bandwith - from experiance

jdee, you were an inspiration to me! I finally waded through all the junk on my computer desk....I even dusted it! :-D

Wow! Looks good! You guys are going to shame me into cleaning my desk area, aren't you!

ah geeeze....hadn't read this thread in a while.....all this talk about cleaning up and getting organized....I feel guilty already and I'm only on my first cup of coffee. I built my desk using the lasagna method.....it has layers of junk on it...LOL. Let's see right now the top layer is my AFLAC duck (a present from a friend that is suppose to sit on my monitor but one of the cats thinks she is spose to be my monitor hood ornament instead so she always knocks it off), next layer is a plastic bin with a bunch of baggies of seeds I need to clean and package, under that a cookbook, next a pile of various papers, some 3x5 cards with notes to myself that I can't even make any sense out of anymore, a kitchen towel?...what the heck is that doing there? and on the bottom a clip board. Now what do you spose the clip board is there for? Oh ya, I think I dug that out the last time I had intentions of getting organized. Well nevermind....if I clean this up it will just be replaced by something else in an hour.

I have the same problem. As soon as I get a flat surface cleaned off, someone sets something on it.... usually me! I've often considered having a foot lever that would tip flat surfaces so the contents would slide off. Underneath I would have a plastic tote to catch it all. Next, I would slap a label with the date on it. These totes could be stacked in the garage. If I need something, I just need to remember when it was on the surface. If I don't open a tote in two years, I dump it into a pile and burn it.... what do you think?

I think I already have several of those systems...they are called kitchen drawers...LOL. My DH is even worse than I am with what I call the "dirty sock on the mantle" theory. If you leave something out of place long enough (and in my house that doesn't take very long), it becomes a permanent fixture there. DH does that, and then when I go on one of my cleaning binges (which isn't that often), I move all the "dirty socks" to what at the time seems like a logical home for them. For the next couple of weeks we can't find anything!

When I go on a cleaning fit, I take all the nuts, bolts, bullets, screw drivers, etc. that my husband leaves all over the house, and I put them in a gallon ziplock bag for him to sort and put away. I decided to clean out the garage, and wouldn't you know it, there were literally boxes of ziplock bags full of odds and ends he was supposed to sort out! I used his name in vain a few times, I can tell you!

I definitely need one of those foot levers. Weez - you could get rich!

It has potential, Moby. Sometimes when I am really pushed for time, I throw everything in a box to sort later, and of course, it doesn't happen. When I'm looking for something, I just leaf through the box for it. Eventually, what's left is just junk... having become insignificant by the passage of time.

Yes, that would be my system. Right now I am in search of a car title in some box...somewhere...

Really need to clean A:) the drawers & shevls B:) the shed C:) the computer room still working on leaves though.

I'm mostly done outdoors, but am suffering a terrible case of the lazies lately... fall slump?? I've got so many different projects going that all it takes is a couple days of procrastination, and I'm buried in stuff.

In geology this layering results in sedimentary stratification and when compressed by enough layers it becomes rock. (my version of geology) My entire house is reaching rock proportions.. no laughing matter. If I had little kids, CFS would take them away [gigggglling here]. not realizing I'm still practicing to be eccentric.

LOL - I'm with you Blooms! Not too long before I start producing diamonds.....

Mgh, it looks great!! Even dusted. I need to dust so badly, I just can't get motivated to do it. I did some cleaning yesterday, but never got around to dusting.

Someone from my church was getting rid of a treadmill. They didn't want any money for it, they just wanted it out of their way, so at the time I was so excited, and said I want it. Now it's been on my porch for 2 weeks because there's just not anywhere to put it. I know I'm going to have to move furniture, and it's probably gonna end up being a coat rack anyway. lol

jdee, use it as a shoe rack. When there are too many on it, just turn it on and they'll fall off the end! LOL!

LOL!!

Somebody ought to come up with a treadmill cozy so they don't gather so much dust...maybe disguised as a big house plant.

You guys crack me up! LOL! You must know that I use the same lasagne system on my desk most of the time! It is a VERY large, horizontal space, and yes, there is already a stack of stuff on it again! Grrrrr.....I was gone all day so I know it wasn't me! All the stuff I took off the desk was sorted into 4 paper grocery bags. One for each of my boys, one for DH and I, and one for recycling. The recycling one was the fullest though and I'm glad for that! This desk was literally piled at least 6 inches high all the way across it. Yesterday my son asked me to sharpen a pencil for him - he couldn't reach the pencil sharpener because there was too much stuff in the way!

I found a lot of things I had been looking for when I cleaned it off, that's for sure. There was an empty plastic bag on there from a purchase at the OR state fair....from last August! Why didn't I just throw it away a long time ago?! Now all I need to do is go through the bag of stuff for my DH and I....that is, right after I go through the box of stuff that has been sitting in the garage for 6 months from the last time I cleaned off the desk! I want one of those levers too!

jdee, My mom bought a treadmill one time. She used it quite faithfully for about 2 weeks. Then it became a coat rack, shoe rack, anything you want to stack on it rack! She finally got rid of it after about 2 years of not using it!

Weez, I like the idea of turning it on when it gets too full! Need to have a garbage can at the end of it! That's what I wanted to do last night....just dump it all and pretend it never happened. Glad I didn't though...our new health insurance cards were in there!

Our computer desk is also my DH's "junk" area. lots of shelves filled with reading glasses, old letters, aspirin, hats,books, dog shock collar, calculators & goodness knows what! Have to clear everything out of the way to get to the keyboard. Then he complains I "hid" something! I married a packrat!

Wanda, maybe you ought to fit him up with that shock collar!

Too funny, my DH got tired of my piles of papers on his desk underneath and over his piles of papers, and oh, bills, lol, so now I finally have my own computer on my desk next to the 20 gallon snake tank, snakey is ok, we found the mouse DH had left in the paper bag, of course got out in this mess, thank goodness, the cats helped, he won't bite much, and underneath, boxes, a paper cutter, wall pictures we have no room for, but shouldnt put in the garage, etc etc. all the stuff We had no room for when We moved in, We didn't think about this house having no attic or basement, sigh, will get around to cleaning eventually, I dust the piles though, he even piled all his baseball caps on my desk!!!! He's in Denver this week, teehee, I'll have to clean up MY desk and put the mess back on his!!!!!

mgh, very nice! I am feeling just a bit guilty, too... My idea of dusting is to take the "air" that I use to clean the inside of the computer and keyboard and blow the dust away... the problem is that I have to clean up all the papers before I can do that... I use sticky notes to remind me of everything I need to do... there are tons of sticky notes everywhere... and everything else that I have used in the last 6 months or think I may need to use in the next... there is bottle of caladryl from 2 months ago when I got into the poison ivy... I really need to get my act together...

jdee, my treadmill has plants on it... I used to keep it folded up, but needed a place to set some plants so now it is a full time plant holder... lol...

Hey Wanda, wanna loan me your shock collar? I could use it for about a week or so... I think 'the pillagers' would get the idea if they got a tiny tingle every time they got into my garden... lol...

I also subscribe to the 'just put it in a box' method when I clean.. I always say I will go back and organize or find a home for it later... and later never comes...

pville: "If I live to be 150 I just can't picture ever becoming bored." .... I agree! There are just never enough hours in the day for me...

lol... I guess it's a good thing the treadmill was free. Maybe I won't feel guilty if I don't use it.

I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me, and at this time of year we all could use a little calm. By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace.

The article said: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started."

So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished....and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white wine, the Bailey's, Kahlua and Wild Turkey, the Prozac, some valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how good I feel...

Sounds like good therapy! LOL

I'm LOL LOL

ROFL, Blooms!!! Sounds like "peace" to me!

mgh - I feel your pain on sharing the computer. We have 5 in our house and 4 people over the age of 2. And DH still thinks he needs a new desktop for his games!

We've got Cybersitter on all of our computers to keep the kids safe from the shock of the internet. But an added feature of Cybersitter is that you can set up "allowable times" that the computer can use the internet AND you can disable internet access althogether. My computer is the only one downstairs, everyone else's is in their bedrooms. So naturally everyone wants to be one my computer! I set up Cybersitter all the time to not allow internet access and the kids think the "internet is down" (like the internet is ever down, just our connection!). So when they give up I can go in to Cybersitter and remove the "block" and get online.

On another point....before everyone starts thinking my kids are spoiled rotten (which they ARE). We like to use the computer as a punishment. :-D Whenever they ignore me about cleaning their rooms or whatever I'm after them to do......their keyboards magically disappear while they are at school and don't re-appear until the chore is done. It's amazing how quickly they get chores done!