How 'bout now?

RedZee

(I'm feeling sad that no one responds to my posts any more, but I'm going to try again anyway.)

A few weeks ago (maybe longer) everyone was posting that their places were chaotic from gifts/wedding stuff/etc. How is it now??

 We made some major progress on taking out the gifts and using them and getting rid of lots of boxes. We even found the futon in the office under all the crap! Unfortunately, our place is still a disaster. We still have some more gifts to figure out what to do with/return. I finally cleaned off my desk, but that mostly consisted of making piles of papers on the futon. Also, we are now collecting an enormous pile of stuff that will be going to charity. But it means that we still can't find the floor.

Most days I feel VERY crazy from it all. We are getting closer to thinking about babies, but it seems nuts to even consider that when we have no place to put the kid and the stuff that would accompany the kid. We try and devote as much spare time as possible to getting organized, but that's really nut fun at all.

AND - I have lots of "bride to be" tiaras and veils (bachelorette party ones) and just married flip flops and stuff (never worn). No clue what to do with all those things!

Am I the only one that still isn't organized?

SBS0628

My house is a mess. Not so much with wedding stuff anymore, but definitely with just stuff-stuff. It always happens once school starts again...I have no time during the week to do anything, and by the time the weekend rolls around, the LAST thing I want to do is clean.

I've got a giant plastic bin with all the wedding stuff in it...I should probably sort that soon, huh?

hawkilady

Our house is put back together for the most part... the only thing I still have to find a place for is my dress - its still on the guest bed in the preservation box - need to clear out some closet space.  Other than that, we still have a stack of thank you notes that I have about 10 more to write and then I can get those mailed and cleaned up on the desk - thats on this weekend's to-do list. 

mamie329

I have a giant plastic bin and a hugeazz bag of wedding stuff I don't know what to do with, plus 10 wedding gifts chilling in the corner of my living room. I need to just put it all in our storage closet, but I'm afraid it will be just moving one mess from point A to point B.

just dandy.

I have a shelf of random things that I don't want, but at the same time I do, you know? Like, some quizzes that my friends took about me at the bachelorette party, and a cute wedding file folder that my sister gave me that I never use.  It's not making a big mess or anything, so I think I'll just keep it in that shelf... forever...

shagadelk7

We literally got 1 gift for our wedding that wasn't money. The only time my house was really a mess was the 3 weeks between my shower and my wedding where I had like 60 boxes piled up to the ceiling in he corner of my kitchen. About 3 days before the wedding I unpacked everything bc I couldn't stand looking at the boxes anymore.

 I didn't register for anything we didn't have room for, so nothing was ever really in my way.

My kitchen table is the way it always is, mostly covered with junk mail that my husband refuses to go through and throw away.

angelfire0412

I'll respond Z! haha. My house has been organized since the week after the wedding and my thank you notes went out 4 days after the wedding. I absolutely cannot stand clutter or 'loose ends' and am a bit neurotic about taking care of them. I also was confined to the house most of this week so I cleaned out all of our closets again and am extra organized now. But I don't work (outside of the home) so I have lots of free time to do things like this.

I also didn't have a bridal shower or bachelorette party so my amount of junk is probably significantly less than yours.?

And I had a question about your garlic pills--can I get them at the grocery store or health food store??

keb270

We started to renovate our kitchen 3 months before the wedding and it's STILL not done. Ugh, DH and his home improvement projects. Because of this, NONE of our gifts are put away. They are all stacked in our dining room. When I start to think about this, I get SO mad.

luckycooky

we have wall to wall stuff.  We have decided we need a bigger place and have been looking but nothing we're serious about yet.  We've had so much going on we just have no time to organize it.  It is driving me crazy but what can you do?

LarkNow

When we moved into this house last year, we didn't buy any new furniture, just used what we had had from our two apartments.  So, we had almost enough, except for one room that had nothing in it.  That became the wedding gift room.  So, yeah, there are a lot of boxes in there.  But if there weren't it would be totally empty again so I'm not really motivated to work on clearing it out.  Plus we got more "decorative bowls" than a human would ever need in one life time so I have NO idea what we're going to do with them all.  Besides leave them in the wedding gift room.

nanner29

For the stuff that we have room for in our apartment is all unpacked and in its place, but others are stacked in our spare room and my closet! So, we were finished with all of it, but now I just have to pack it all up to move now! Ugh, not looking forward to it.

RedZee

Shag - I wish I invited your guests to my wedding! We got SO MUCH crap. Ridiculous bowls. Candlesticks. Vases. $60 Trivets!! Totally nuts.

I feel like part of the problem is that I moved in with C in January and he had tons of junk in here that he didn't even realize he had and I didn't do enough sorting before moving.