Are you a neat freak or just a mess???

 I love an comfortably clean house...and I got an REAL mess on my hands most the time..my doctor says.."Forget it!"..you can NOT be seven other people, you have to be yourself!!! ,,,,I have never lived in an house "big enough" to store the things, I feel are needed to own an house, be an parent...and it didn't help when my kids, renting an over 2,000 sq.foot house moved in with us, there by making about 4,500 sq foot of living items shoved into 2,000 sq feet. we have already dumped three or  four pick loads and hauled off 22 sacks of clothing to the Goodwill thrift Shops. It still keeps me busy to keep it from building up. I realize that I need to be more organized, but it's hard...my grandkids act like being "neat" is an disease of some kind. I've been to many houses that look like an bomb went off in them, particularly with working parents these days. There is very little storage room in the new house building they do these days also. Our grandparents were "smarter"... they had barns.

I like that Shirley..."grandkids act like being neat is a disease of some kind!" LOL!!! You are so right!!!

Luckily for me I get a huge plastic bag in the mail from the Lupus Foundation so I fill those up and they pick them up at my door!! Easy peasy!!!

 It's lack of "time" Jason....my son..works an "day" job, is home nights once every three days this week..picking up loads and taking them elsewhere,..his wife, leaves for work at 5 am..gets home at 5:30 pm...she's tired.. eats and gets the kids into bed by 8 pm..goes to bed herself...kids, two come home at 3 pm..do their homework/computers until dinner time, in bed by 8 pm...up at 7 am..youngest one..leaves with his mother in the morning for the babysitters. Once in an while they fold clothes at night. go out for dinner, or shopping..All summer long, little league baseball. winters, for one kid it's scouting... that doesn't begin to cover the birthday party's of people they know from school. To get 8 hours of sleep they have to be in bed from 9 pm and asleep. That leaves me home..to do washing, shopping, dogs, cats, fish, birds, computer, vacuuming, straightening up, decorating, painting, etc..being sick the last week or so, forget it...I'm suppose to be walking an mile every day also...that takes time, then there's the garden in summer, so forth. We don't have enough time to do all we should be doing any more. Besides scouts on March 7,14.16 ..which was the Pinewood Derby, hubby also has every Tuesday night meetings, and Thursday "round table" meetings, and Eagle board reviews, plus they took another weekend day to go over troop supplies for the year...so out of this month he hasn't or won't be home nearly half the month "nights" for scouting. It takes an lot of our time.   

Its not lack of time Shirley!  i'm not speaking for your family, they work!  but the vast majority we visit haven't ever and don't want a job, not enough time means they haven't finished watching all their favorite TV shows!! usually Jeremy Kyle etc... they have plenty of time in the day, they just choose to live in their own filth, honest i'm not just talking a little untidy here, i'm talking pig sty! I know i sound harsh, but i've seen plenty like this, and i've tred to see the good points, but there just isn't any, they just can't be bothered!