I have little envy of the Real Housewives of any where. Their lives seem chaotic and filled with ridiculous drama that if not scripted,which I highly think it is, you couldn't make up. The weekend get aways at 5 star hotels and personal chefs-who care! I can meet up with a friend, a real friend, any weekend for a walk around a neighborhood and a stop at a coffee house, and sit down to a homemade pasta dinner. No, if there is anything I envy is the always immaculate and spotlessly clean homes. Of course these homes are camera ready at all times, and come with cleaning personell. I would love to live in a house in which I do not feel the need to keep certain doors closed at all times.
While I know most people have a room of doom, the clutter room, the space with a head case, I seem to have many of them. Closed doors are my friends. I can spend a whirlwind fifteen minutes and get my immediate walk in space tidy enough that I don't want to crawl in a drawer if my mother in law shows up, but if she opened those doors, I might burst into tears. Those doors are meant to stay shut, unless I or a family member open them. These are basic house grade doors-nothing unique. But when they help hide my clutter, or my unmade bed and dirty laundry strewn shamelessly about the room, they became my ally.
A note about this post.
This post was originally one of my exercises from Sam and Writing. While Natalia Lialina from In the Writers Closet, has decided to end her blogs, I am eternally grateful to her. Her support, feedback, and push to write every day, sometimes about seemingly mundane things, has helped me uncover memories and invoked thoughts and ideas I didn't know I had. I may be pulling a few others over to meet my Blog Every Day November goal. #BEDN
Living in Connecticut, there are lots of Colonial style houses (living area on main floor, bedrooms upstairs). I have a friend who always says, "if you go upstairs, I'm going to have to kill you". I can never seem to have both floors clean at the same time...
ReplyDeleteThat style would have been so much better than my somewhat open floor plan. Bedroom and closets, if doors not shut are in full view.
DeleteOne of the best remedies for clutter is living in a tiny city apartment. It gets to the stage where it's either the clutter or you.
ReplyDeleteI have been purging, but I am at the stage where I do long for smaller living space-not more storage.
DeleteNow imagine a mother in law who is incapable of not opening EVERY door, and drawer, and cupboard, and... oh, the torture! I think she has issues that only specialists could help. For real, we all have those doors closed for a reason, right? Like you said most people have a room of doom and a good many of us have an unmade bed and clothes strewn all over the bedroom, right? I'm with you on this one, once again.
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At the last family gathering I held, DH's sister and nephew decided to check out all my rooms. In my head I was , "WTH!!" She claimed she wanted to see if we had done anything different since the older ids moved out. I said, "Yeah-I'm storing more clutter." Her eyes said it all what she thought of my housekeeping skills. This is why that was the last family gathering, at least for a while.
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