Organization
By C
@ShyBear88 (59347)
Sterling, Virginia
January 19, 2012 11:50am CST
Are you an organized person? Do you like it when others tell you what to do keep your house and life organized?
Well as a stay home mom I don't like doing those typical things that all stay at homes do. Where you spend all day cleaning and putting things in an organized placed. I don't like doing all the work like that so I don't do any clew if or straighting till my husband comes home and helps me out. I spend my day taking care I'd my daughter and at 11 most almost 1 she is a messy child when having fun. I know the second I clean up it'll be messy again and I don't always like picking up the toys when sleeping cause when she wakes from her nap she does it again. I got told by a person that doesn't know me that I should spend the time while my daughter is napping to clean the house. That's boring just what I want to. I clean when I feel like it and it'll be the end of the day when my little one is in bed for the night and her daddy can help me other wise I feel like a slave doing all the work. I know other women don't feel that way and that is fine sown enjoy cleaning or organizing all day I do not. I rather spend my day playing and teChing my daughter and taking care of myself. I am now pregnant so I do have to take care of my body year more often sleep when I can. The first trimester is the most tiresed and I feel like doing nothing. It'll change soon enough after the second trimester starts.
7 responses
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
20 Jan 12
well my friend, your infanticipating stage is what explains for you loss of enthusiasm and stamina for cleaning and tidying the house. 
In addition, you have a point that when you daughter wakes up she will play the same toys again, so you just let them be where your baby has left them.
However, as for me, in the evening before my husband will arrive from work, i will tidy the place, so that he will be rested when he finally arrives, not help in the tidying of the place anymore. He has been working the whole day, so i deemed it just right that he be rested when he arrives.
In addition, you have a point that when you daughter wakes up she will play the same toys again, so you just let them be where your baby has left them.
However, as for me, in the evening before my husband will arrive from work, i will tidy the place, so that he will be rested when he finally arrives, not help in the tidying of the place anymore. He has been working the whole day, so i deemed it just right that he be rested when he arrives. @ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
20 Jan 12
Well lucky your husband. See my husband he might work all day sitting on his butt answer phones that isn't a hard job a hard job is being pregnant taking care of your toddler. I never Dias I leave my daughters toys laying around the house all night now did I. I said at the end of the day I'll pick then up other wise if I pick then up during nap time when it's all going to come back. I see a marriage is equal everytime weather the both couples work one does that the other should help out an not get a free ride to do as thu want. The mess made in everyone's house when they are married or living with someone is equally made so it should be equally clean. If my husband wants to play his video games and watch tv he'll have to help out in the house. It's unfair because I'm the women I do all the work and it's nobody else busy how we do thing or when we do things they don't have to live with us.
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
21 Jan 12
I am happy to note that my husband when he sees me busy with chores, he would always find a way to be able to help. If not, i would definitely ask him to help, but that rarely happens. 
I also believe that husbands and wives should help each other in doing chores in the house whenever they can.
I also believe that husbands and wives should help each other in doing chores in the house whenever they can.@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
22 Jan 12
If one does it all of the time they are just a slave to the other person when it a house or where is shared with more then one person. I don't have to ask my husband to help he just doest or he won't hear the end off it for weeks. He helps make it he helps cleaning. It's not just my job ita his job and over time as well as our daughter job to help out. Why would I want to clean a lining room, dinning room, kitchen 3 bedrooms and 3 baths on my own. Actually one of those bedrooms and bathroom is our cousin room so that's her job to clean there as well as help out in the other parts off the house minus our bedrooms and the one bath. Even though our apartment is 2 stories there isn't a place for everything and with a lot of storage the space would be too small. A little clutter never hurt anyone it's more healthy for you to have a little dirt and little clutter then keeping everything put up and way way more stressful and demanding for someone.
@lologirl2021 (5542)
• United States
19 Jan 12
Well being pregnant im sure is tiring and have one already that isnt even one can take some pressure on you and im sure you are tired. If you werent pregnant again im sure you wouldnt mind cleaning the house like other women do when there children are playing. Im talking about not picking up stuff and putting toys away but maybe dusting the house, cleaning the floors doing the laundry and im sure your husband doesnt want to come home and have to do all that stuff when he was at work all day. Im sure he would like to rest and not have to worry about all that when he came home. I know i wouldnt want to do when i came home and i think my boyfriend would expect me to do these things if i didnt work as well but since i work i expect him to help me out with things.
Of course this is my opinion and i dont know how you guys live or what things you truly do but have a great day and happy mylotting.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
19 Jan 12
We need clutter me and my husband and our cousin we are not neat freaks I dot even like neat freaks would live with then at all. We aren't boarders but there has to be clutter other wise I would move back in wig my husbands grandparents and spend 12 hours of cleaning 3 story house more the onces cause they are old and blind and doent think it's clean enough when it's spotless.
@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
20 Jan 12
I appreciate when people says it to me, like at the office,when my supervisor see how my table look like a jungle she will says I should schedule time to clean my table so that it will look like organized and I can pick up things easily and find things easily too however I do not have time. At home, no one will tell me to clean it, even my mother because she knows how busy I am and I do not want anyone to touch my things because I want it the way it is and I want to know where I can get something, where I hide it and stuff like that. I dislike being told sometimes, but I appreciate the concern, this is for the reason that I know what I am doing and what they are advising only mess up my time. If I will organized my things, I need to schedule it and I will be doing it for one whole day. If I am organized, yes, I am but I am not consistent especially if I have so many things to do.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
20 Jan 12
Work I underatbad that be someone's home is nobody's busy but your own how you live in it. As long as your safe the peole that live with you are safe that is what matters. It's not like my house is unclean it's clean just not as clean as some people's homes. I pikes up at the end of the day most days and there will be a good clean evey 4 weeks on a weekend.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
20 Jan 12
I think I am rather organized to an extent. At the very least, I am rather organized in my disorganization if that makes any sense. I think that to a person who is far more organized than I even attempt to be, what I do and how I place things will make sense. But if it makes sense to my brain and my set of eyes, then for all attempts and purposes, I am organized.
I mean things could be a bit of a mess, but if I know where things are, then that is fine. I never liked it when people thought that being organized is being nice and tidy. When everything is nice and tidy, it just bothers me. My brain thinks that is not how everything is supposed to be, and therefore I cannot find anything. I dislike rather a lot when people tell me how to organize, but I can tell their brain does not function in a way similar to mine.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
20 Jan 12
In organized with the disorganization. I know where everythi t is at it all has a place it might not be in the place it was at the being of the day but it'll get there. I don't like being organizes I like my disorganization and not beig a clean freak. We are clean but lived in a lived in environment.
@jennigoff33 (332)
• United States
19 Jan 12
I think everything has a proper place, and I look at myself as a neat freak. However, when it comes to certain things like a bed being made. I can not stand it ill be in it soon ne ways. I look at these like my pet peeves and don't really pay no one any mind when they make suggestions to me. Because after all they are them and I am me. lol
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
20 Jan 12
I think when it comes to other people's homes it's nobody busyness as long as ita safe to live.
@Luckygal777 (107)
• Malaysia
19 Jan 12
Congratulations on your pregnancy. I don't know why some people are so particular about organization. Sometimes, it drives me nut. I i am not so organised in fact i mostly put things everywhere. its only when i need it that i start looking for it.Afterall the only things you can see scattered around the house are books and novels. So don't worry about it, just do whatever you think you can. I know its not easy to have an organised house when you have little kids at home since i also have little brother and sister and they also scatter the house. We all just make the best of the situation one is in. Don't mind that person that complained because too much organization in ones life makes one become a control freak.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
19 Jan 12
I call them neat freaks because everything needs to be cleaning an in a places. I have things in places there is order in my house but not to the extent like some people's is. My house looks lived in not like a museum. There is clutter but not a lot. We do once amonth good cleaning and the rest o the month it's once every day at 9pm we pick things up and clean you know the rail things like dishes.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
19 Jan 12
In many ways I feel like I am an organized person, but in other ways I feel like I am one of the most disorganized people in the world.
The reason that I feel like I'm organized is that I like to keep a lot of things organized, like my pictures and things like that so that I can make my children's life books more easily. However, if you were to come into my house, it is pretty much a disaster because of the fact that I refuse to constantly pick up after children that are old enough to pick up their own toys.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
19 Jan 12
Yeah I'm like that. I'm disorganized but here is organization it just doesn't look like it. I know my daughter isn't old enough to understand pick up stuff so I wait till the end of the day to do it. I tell my husband I want people to walk in and see his placed is lived in it's not a musem where you can't touch thing and you can't make messes. I especially don't like it when I have company that does t clean up after themselves like I'm there mama when they are old enough to do it themselves.
