My Own Office! Sorry... This Got Long!

[ChefBeckyD]

I may be like you, Rae. I'm very clean, but if I don't have time to really clean something in the way it needs to get clean, I don't do it. Therefore, my kitchen floor is usually quite nasty. I have lots of piles, too. All piles are PC and I have three separate areas of piles. It's bad.

That is my problem too. I struggle with surface cleaning. I like to clean from the inside out. DH can clean the bathroom in 15 minutes, but it takes me an hour. (we have a large bathroom with 2 sinks & vanities, jacuzzi tub full of little boy toys, and separate shower with 2 seats.) I have to scrub everything down....so sometimes it's easier to just let him clean it.


One of my best friends tells me that my home isn't dirty - it's just cluttered! I spent all of Sat. Afternoon trying to clean my office - at least now my piles are a bit more organized.

 

[wadesgirl]

I knew I loved you for a reason... my kitchen floor is the same way. Between the lack of cleaning and the 2yo DD that empties the tray on her booster chair when she is done, I have completely given up on my floor.

I gave up on our kitchen floor when we moved in! It's just so nasty, it will never clean no matter how much I scrub it. Luckily it's dark laminate so you cannot tell how bad it is. We just have the no second rule in our house. If it fell on the floor, throw it away!

 

[KellyRedHead]

I'm sooo jealous! I was just talking with my husband about my own defined space. My desk is in the kitchen dining room area. The kids use my desk and computer, moving my things out of their way and then I have to find it again!
I have a room in the basement I could use, no windows so I am not sure I would go down there to work. :grumpy:

We also have the "pilot" program going on here also. Way to many. Funny thing is though I usually know where to find the items I need again!

 

[quiverfull7]

I always know which pile any given item is in... I'm just getting sick enough of the piles myself to really want to do something about it and I'm raising an entire set of pilers for the future and I want to change that at least for these last 3 that I have home. The 20 yr old... well... it may be too late for her and the 3 that have already moved out... some are pilers some are not... it's a mean thing to pass on to your kids... so I'm trying to get past it.

 

[janetupnorth]

That is my problem too. I struggle with surface cleaning. I like to clean from the inside out. DH can clean the bathroom in 15 minutes, but it takes me an hour. (we have a large bathroom with 2 sinks & vanities, jacuzzi tub full of little boy toys, and separate shower with 2 seats.) I have to scrub everything down....so sometimes it's easier to just let him clean it.


One of my best friends tells me that my home isn't dirty - it's just cluttered! I spent all of Sat. Afternoon trying to clean my office - at least now my piles are a bit more organized.

Oh Becky, another commonality.

I am always "cluttered"...then it gets to the point where I can't stand it and have to do MAJOR cleaning. When I clean, the furniture gets moved around, and everything gets cleaned...takes me forever, but looks great when done. In between, I'm not so good with the "maintenance". It's all or nothing it seems...and yes, DH usually cleans to save time.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Oh Becky, another commonality.

I am always "cluttered"...then it gets to the point where I can't stand it and have to do MAJOR cleaning. When I clean, the furniture gets moved around, and everything gets cleaned...takes me forever, but looks great when done. In between, I'm not so good with the "maintenance". It's all or nothing it seems...and yes, DH usually cleans to save time.

Ummm, okay.....you just described me.....


Now that we've all taken the shape test - I chalk it up to being a squiggle. Squiggles aren't good at everyday maintenance. Good thing that is a strength of DH!



Oh - I also often wait until there are no clean underwear or towels to do laundry.... The laundry room is right next to my office, so Sat. I did 6 loads while I was cleaning my office.

 

[ted122781]

I suffer from the same "disease"!

 

[DebbieJ]

Diane, your office looks fantastic. Yay God!

 

[Kitchen Diva]

She's not naughty, she's married to the guy.

Go have fun Diane!

married or not...cool whip is a little naughty- in a fun sort of way! Adam and Eve didn't have cool-whip!

besides, I'm just playing with her Ms Janet

 

[PCMelissa]

That is awesome!!

 

[aried]

Diane your office looks great. Our office is in our detached garage. My husband has a roofing business that I help with.

I also have the pile diease. I have most of my PC stuff in the office but I also have a drawer of PC tools, a cabinet of PC tools and my cookware and stoneware in the kitchen. Then I also have piles of current things I am working on going between the office and the kitchen. I don't have a lap top yet so I have to go back and forth to the office to use the computer.

Ann R.

 

[katie0128]

married or not...cool whip is a little naughty- in a fun sort of way! Adam and Eve didn't have cool-whip!

besides, I'm just playing with her Ms Janet

Apparently it is... she's got 7 kids!

 

[quiverfull7]

I'm still going through piles in the house that need to be sorted and then the PC papers taken out to the office. My plan is to get everything business related out there... the tools I use will of course be in the house but when I got everything washed up from the show last Friday I put it into my kit and took it out yesterday to the office. It will take continued discipline on my part to keep this done as it needs to be but I promised when I began PC that I would make a concerted effort to improve on keeping things neat in the house and I have often let that go and then adding all the PC stuff has often made it worse. Our DS has Asperger's Syndrome and while he manages in my disorder... the more orderly things are, the less stress it causes him... I KNOW my DH fairs better with neat and orderly so that's my goal... It's a process and thankfully I'm better than I was which I'm glad about. http://www.flylady.com helped me out quite a bit a few years back. I cannot wdear my shoes all the time like she tells me to so I quit getting her emails for a while. I do pop in on that website every now and again to get reinspired! I better get some more sorting done now... can't seem to do that and type at the same time!

 

[ChefBeckyD]

I'm still going through piles in the house that need to be sorted and then the PC papers taken out to the office. My plan is to get everything business related out there... the tools I use will of course be in the house but when I got everything washed up from the show last Friday I put it into my kit and took it out yesterday to the office. It will take continued discipline on my part to keep this done as it needs to be but I promised when I began PC that I would make a concerted effort to improve on keeping things neat in the house and I have often let that go and then adding all the PC stuff has often made it worse. Our DS has Asperger's Syndrome and while he manages in my disorder... the more orderly things are, the less stress it causes him... I KNOW my DH fairs better with neat and orderly so that's my goal... It's a process and thankfully I'm better than I was which I'm glad about. http://www.flylady.com helped me out quite a bit a few years back. I cannot wdear my shoes all the time like she tells me to so I quit getting her emails for a while. I do pop in on that website every now and again to get reinspired! I better get some more sorting done now... can't seem to do that and type at the same time!

FlyLady was too much for me. I couldn't handle the constant emails....and I was annoyed that someone was telling me when and how to do everything. Probably because when things are too organized, I start feeling like I can't breathe. I like just a little chaos in my life.

 

[Jules711]

Thanks for sharing! I have the same issues. Lots of paper everywhere. Everytime I get close to being organized, something comes up and chaos takes over again. I too like to completely clean and have started to learn that just a few minutes a day can avoid the deep clean need! We know that, but that's why it's a "disease" .Your office looks beautiful!