D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
organization vent
can I just burn down my house and start all over again? is that allowed?
our house should be plenty big enough for 2 adults, a toddler and a baby (on the way). but OMG, I just cannot seem to find a place for everything. While I'm really not a pack rat, we just have too much stuff.
Does someone want to come take away all my stuff? Please?
Re: organization vent
I hear ya, too. I am confounded by why we insist on calling one room an office when it is clearly a wannabe trashpile.
I feel the same way right now. Our office is a disaster (and so is our "storage closet" in the basement) and I keep trying to organize it, but there's just too much stuff that we need and no enough places to put it
On a related note, when we lived in Savannah, our house did catch fire, but not enough to destroy everything. Cleaning up (even after servpro came) was a huge PITA. So, I don't recommend going that route.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
ladies, ladies, ladies. Do I need to preach at you again? Gawd, how I wish I had enough time to come to your homes and cart your crap away for you. We'd all feel so much better.
(for those who don't know me -- I would love to be a professional organizer. Instead, I work to pay The Man.)
"What is a week-end?"
we have so much stuff, I have a closet completely dedicated to gifts (and, TBH, re-gifts). It's so full, it's impossible to know what's there (lots of gift boxes and gift bags, too) and is basically un-cleanable.
I hear ya!!
One day, Pam. One day.
if DH wasn't so thrifty, I'd pay (bribe) you all kinds of money to come help.
part of the problem is that there is always so much in transition. like right now, I need to move a bunch of my non-maternity hanging clothes from the closet in our bedroom to the closet in our guest bedroom. But that closet is basically filled to the brim with baby stuff that we are going to need in February. So I guess I could take those things out and just have them decorate the guest room (yuck) and put my clothes in the closet, but then it will be messy looking :-(
and the reason I have to take my non-maternity clothes out of my closet is because
: DH and I have to start sharing a closet now! 
: We are moving Warner into the bedroom that was our office where DH kept all his clothes. Oy. This is uncharted territory for us and it could get ugly.
Aside from Baby/Maternity stuff (which has a longer value) ask "Have I used this/needed this in the last year? Do I have any existing plans for this in the future?"
If the answer to either question is no- toss or donate. I did this and although certain things were tough to throw away, I haven't had any regrets. Mostly I have thought "wow, I really didn't need that. I can't believe I thought it was worth keeping."
once you've had your last baby, you can start getting rid of baby stuff. I felt so good giving away all the baby clothes! I need to now go thru toys neither plays with and get rid of those. It's empowering to give away stuff you no longer need!