I'm readying the house for surgery so I don't have to worry about a messy house when I'm recovering... I just need to vent on my messy family for a minute before I resume the deep clean.

I can pick up after myself, it's picking up after 2 kids and the love of my life I can't do!!! They're all so friggin messy. Ugggg. And since my mom and grandma will be here after surgery to help out the house has to be pristine (OR they will clean it and I'll never be able to find anything again).

We have a couple of crap closets where things just get shoved... and they are shameful! We're messy cluttered people. Not dirty, just messy. I have a pile of mail in the front hall that I'm just going to shred! Closets to go through and make look organized. My laundry area... let's not even talk about that one!

My kitchen cabinets are a nightmare!!!! I don't understand why I am the only person in the house who can put the top back on the peanut butter or actually close a cereal box. I know grandma will have a field day in there. And we'll be calling her for weeks asking "Where is the basil? What about the Dawn?" Mom will do laundry and fold it and put it away... and for weeks we'll have one little girl saying "EEEEW, what is Katie's underwear doing in MY room". I'm grateful for their help, but I don't want them to feel like they NEED to do all of that... I'm capable, I just hate doing it!

So I'm trying to get it all done before I'm out of commision so they don't feel the need to do it. It would be IDEAL if I could train the members of my household to help out without being nagged.

And I'm hating it... and putting it off by posting on here!!! I'm also on liquids so I'm a little cranky as it is.

thanks for letting me vent!!!

Does he/she want an american buddy? Her name is Groovy Cat and she's as groovy as it gets! :-P

Does he/she want an american buddy? Her name is Groovy Cat and she's as groovy as it gets! :-P

LOL ...My Husbands cat decided to take a dump in our shower last week. ughhhhh they need to get their acts together!

This too shall pass. My Ds is a total slob. I learned for certain it was him over the past two weeks. I cleaned my house thouroughly before leaving for a two week vacation. Usually on vacation I am constantly cleaning the villa, this time, I barely had a thing to pick up. My DD and DH are pretty neat and the mess was all from pigpen. Now I get home, the plants are dead--opps forgot to water them, the lawn is shin high--oops I forgot to mow, the gas tank in the car is empty--oh used the gas money to take my gf out to dinner. Get in the house...carpets have all sorts of debris on them...oh was I supposed to run the vac? The kitchen floor is covered in sticky messes...I wiped it with paper towel...The sink is full of dishes and the dishwasher was run with pots and pans with all sorts of food still in them...needless to say I had to rewash all the stuff in the diswasher by hand, scour what was in the sink, take out two weeks of trash, rewash and scrub everything. That was just the first floor, the bathroom had not been cleaned and two weeks of clothing was on the floor, towels were washed, but he forgot to turn on the dryer. I don't know, he will be 19 in September and bless his room mate at college, this kid is just a mess. And none of it is from lack of knowing what to do or having been taught what to do.

Counting down the days to a clean house...and we are now at 14 until he leaves! woohoo:rolleyes2:

Edited August 12, 201016 yr by patsal

I am so glad I don't have kids! LOL

PuppyBandit....I so agree with the last part of your signature...please try breaking up your posts into paragrahps makes it so much easier to read