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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.
Tell me you have an (even slightly) unkempt house.
I love me some home/DIY blogs. But they make me feel terrible about the state of my house. Is it just me who has dog-hair dust bunnies, doesn't decant her laundry soap into a decorative jar, and wishes she'd picked a darker sofa cover so the dog footprints would be hidden?
Re: Tell me you have an (even slightly) unkempt house.
I think I would feel a lot better about myself without the internet.
I do my best to keep the house kind of tidy and kind of clean. Seth doesn't give a crap and obviously Abe doesn't so it is an endless battle. I'd rather spend my time playing with my kid than having an immaculate home.
My house looks like a bomb went off. Thank goodness for DH who keeps it somewhat afloat. I want to run thru a clean, organized house and just turn everything upside down.
My BFF's house is immaculate without clutter. I feel so self-conscious when she comes to my place (but thankfully she lives 3 hrs away so I clean like crazy before she gets there).
Clean house? What is that?
My house is a mess. I will admit it. I mean it is picked up, but cluttered. My children have taken over. I pick up so it is presentable, but it is far from perfect. I like the motto that if people come to visit, they are here to visit my kids and not my house.
I am on the nest avoiding cleaning my upstairs bathroom, which is disgusting. I'm looking across the dining room floor at the sea of cheerios that have accumulated around the high chair, under the table and near the massive train track and block train station that takes up almost all available walking space from here to the hallway. The mail is still on top of the large storage bin in the living room where I dropped it. The storage bin shouldn't be there either. The living room rug creates fuzzy tumbleweeds that are in every corner of the first floor no matter how many times I sweep or vacuum them.
In short, I'm right there with you.
ummm...
YES!
I hate cleaning. I keep only certain rooms consistently clean-- the kitchen/food prep area, and my toilet and shower.
Everything else? Clutter, clutter, some more clutter, and then usually some 3rd critter created by the cast-off hair/fur of my dog and cat.
And I don't even have a kid to blame. Or a job, since I only work 3 days a week.
My house is clean and uncluttered four days a month. These are the days the cleaning lady, Sylvia, comes and the day after. So I can't take credit. I'm naturally neat but MH....he is a clutter and mess king! We hired Sylvia to help preserve my sanity and we are both hooked. In fact, when I was looking at two weeks of furlough, we said we would cut everywhere else in the budget but not Sylvia.
Oh, and right now? I have no kitchen floor because my husband is tearing it out. He's moved almost everything in the dining room into the living room so he can have a "staging area" for the next couple of weeks while he finishes the kitchen. It's going to be a mess.
I used to put so much effort into cleaning/organizing my house but I lost the motivation and can't seem to find it again. I'm guilty of the pet fur tumbleweeds (thanks for that term mm, dust bunnies was getting old), and random occurances of clutter, but I know my house isn't dirty/smelly/gross. I'm sill a bit jealous of some of the homes I see on blogs or in magazines though.
Also, a bit embarrassing... my brother house-sat for us for a couple days and the only reason I knew he cooked something was that my counters/stovetop was cleaner than I left it. If there is one reason I miss him living with us, it was his cleanliness.
We also use "tumbleweeds" to describe the dog hair...I don't think I will ever be able to keep up with it.(Darn lab!)
And since my SIL gave our dog(s) a garbage bag full of old stuffed animals for Christmas we have a murder scene(sometimes multiple) at our house daily (aka sutffing, limbs, and the occasional eye or two scattered around our living room floor).
Slightly unkempt at best.
Between a drooly dog with about a hundred toys (which he artfully arranges around the house to maximize injury to me and DH), a long haired cat, and being pregnant....it's a bit of a disaster. The nursery, however, very clean because we never go in there and keep the door shut (said drooly dog thinks all baby toys are for him).
I agree with the poster who said they'd feel better about themselves without the internet.
Unkempt is an understatement, I fully admit it's a disaster.
I'm the only one who "cleans" here, and I get about one waking hour with no baby a day... We have 2 cats and laminate floors, so there's plenty of tumbleweed here!
My house is taken over by baby "stuff" of all kinds, and the piles of clean laundry I can never find the time to put away. My spot on the couch is a nest of paperwork and bills - some I've totally forgotten to pay! (One of my student loan companies switched to another provider, therefore I stopped getting email reminders to make my payments, THREE months ago - and now I have to find a way to catch back up! The letter informing me of the switch may or may not be in that pile.)
Since the deaths of my niece and then my dad, and all the chaos (and therefore extra clutter) that brought in the past two months, I'm just at a total loss for where to even begin to get it under control. I'm looking forward to President's Day next month - DH has school, but I'm off. I'll send DS to daycare and (hopefully) make a real dent in this mess.
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