Which room in your house is you nemesis

[Sheya Stephens]

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I feel like I am on top of everything, then I go into my family room and a tornado struck! I can not keep on top of this room to save my life! The rest of the house, even when it is falling apart, takes no time at all to whip into shape. I can't even think about the family room without wanting to cry/scream :)

Does anyone else have a nemesis room? I honestly feel that this room laughs at me when I walk away.LOL

Laundry, toys, backpacks, etc. They just end up here, even when they all have a place they are supposed to be. The rest of the house does not have this problem.

I am sure it is just me... I just didn't want to admit it.

Sheya

[Joanne Vergin]

I can only stay on top of one room at a time it seems. Sounds like this room is close to the entrance. What do you have in place to handle backpacks for instance?

[Sheya Stephens]

The family room is in the back of the house (near garage). We have a coat rack, shoe rack that should house these items. But then the backpacks are opened (art work, notes home, homework, etc). The laundry is my doing. I have been staring at the towels that need to be folded since yesterday morning... Okay...It seems like I am whining... I am going to tackle this room. If I don't return... call for help :)

[Desiree Allen-Baker]

My bedroom. Always has been, always will be.

[Sheya Stephens]

my bedroom too.. the toy room... Maybe my whole house is out to get me.

[Christine Josephson]

I have the "Monster room" my name for one of the bedrooms where everything is taken that doesn't fit any where else. My No 1 job is to get this emptied now that I am retired. It is pretty overwhelming.

[Katy Bean]

The Office/toyroom.. Aggghhh just thinking about it puts me into convulsions. I avoid that room at all cost. Except for Fridays because thats clean up day for that room, but other then fridays I try to pretend there is no office/toyroom =). Must go take a tranqulizer now from even thinking about it. =0)

[Barbara Moulton]

Furnace/Laundry room.

It is the storage area for everything and since we all do our own laundry it gets a bit overwhelming in the laundry area.

And of course...the garage.

No room for the cars in it.

[Sheya Stephens]

Well... it is now 11:30 at night. I attempted the family room (tackled the 3 loads of towels, toys, etc.),,, however, when the girls' got home from school, out came the Barbie's, papers, then dinner had to get going (that wasn't too bad), but then husband had to make chili???? So I need to repair my house once again tomorrow. However, Grandma is taking my 2 year old after I take my daughter to PM Kindergarten, so I will have some tornado free time.

[LoraineStanton]

ROOM??? Just ONE room????? Not here! The front room, bedroom, storage cages, yeah! I've been looking at one pile of boxes for two weeks with no success at getting them sorted and out of the way.:fun16

[Barbara Moulton]

One of the things that organized home suggests is tackling things in small packages. Rather than trying to tackle a whole room, start with one closet, or one shelf or even just one box.

I'll do things like take a kitchen drawer out and straighten it up while I watch TV.

BTW, Freecycle is amazing. Not so much for getting things...only a couple of times have I actually had a response to my request for something.

But for getting rid of things it can't be beat. I use it often as I tidy up rooms. If there are things I don't need/want anymore I put them aside and then go post them to Freecycle as soon as the room is done. Monday night, after tidying a room, I had people coming to my door all evening to pick up things I didn't want.

It's better than putting things aside for a garage sale you'll never have :-)

A couple came to our church for the first time on Sunday. I kept looking at them, thinking I had met them before. Sure enough, after we started talking we figured out the connection...that they had picked something up from my house a couple of years ago.

[Allison Finer]

Our bedroom! For some reason I cannot keep the master bedroom clean! I try and I try, but I just can't. My 18 month old daughter's room is cleaner then ours on any given day!!! Very frustrating!

[Barbara Moulton]

Our bedroom! For some reason I cannot keep the master bedroom clean! I try and I try, but I just can't. My 18 month old daughter's room is cleaner then ours on any given day!!! Very frustrating!

I can keep MY side of the bedroom tidy LOL

After 24+ years of marriage I just decided to pray the serenity prayer.

[Laurie Florence]

I can keep MY side of the bedroom tidy LOL

After 24+ years of marriage I just decided to pray the serenity prayer.

Serenity prayer has been working for me on most things. It would probably work on the state of messes I have not made and therefore have no control over. However, I can not surrender mess in the house, whether I control it or not - even after nearly 20 years of marriage. Yeah, I just walked in after a late meeting at work, to a mess in the kitchen that was not my making. It was immaculate when I left this morning. Will I leave the mess? Of course not. I cannot!!! Yeah, I'm angry and I'm venting. This is how I feel right now: :fun16
Off I go to clean.

[Desiree Allen-Baker]

Serenity prayer has been working for me on most things. It would probably work on the state of messes I have not made and therefore have no control over. However, I can not surrender mess in the house, whether I control it or not - even after nearly 20 years of marriage. Yeah, I just walked in after a late meeting at work, to a mess in the kitchen that was not my making. It was immaculate when I left this morning. Will I leave the mess? Of course not. I cannot!!! Yeah, I'm angry and I'm venting. This is how I feel right now: :fun16
Off I go to clean.

:pray

[Sheya Stephens]

The Serenity prayer gets me through most of my house cleaning duties... My house is now clean and ready for company tonight! The only way i can guarantee it will stay like this, is because I work today and my girls' will not be home until dinner time....

[Donna Adams]

Sheya: how old are your children? If you learn to "train" them now where to put their things and when, it will help when they get older. I have three kids, our daughter was always neat and tidy, until she got married, her husband likes to pile things, our two sons learned to put shoes, coats, books and clothes where they belonged. My kids had to help do chores around the house, if they chose to live like slobs in their room, the door had to be left shut at all times, and NO friends were allowed in the rooms. Today as married young adults, the KNOW how to help their spouces cook, clean and do laundry. They dont always help, but they do know how!!
I refuse to clean up after my husband and exhcange student daughter. They are old enough to clean their own messes, and they do.
I was taught like this, I am #2 of 7 children, we had to do our part, or else.
I think when parents constantly do for their children, they are doing a real dis-service to them. Children want to learn, but we must teach them.

[Sara Sheppard]

My mom was sure willing to teach my sister and I how to clean and do laundry. However, my brother who still lives at home at age 28.....she does his laundry and cleans up after him like he's 5. It makes my sister and I so angry we don't even go over there very often anymore.

Sounds like you applied equal "training" for your sons and daughter, Donna. Good job!
Sara

[Donna Adams]

Sara: I did do equal training with my boys as I did my only daughter. They do the laundry, wash dishes, the whole thing. When my boys were little I had no guarentee that my boys would find a wife or be alone as adults. My son in law, cooks, does housecleaning and does laundry. He doesn't do it alone, but he helps.
I am a firm believer in teaching children these kinds of skills when they are young. When my grandchildren come over and they play with the toys, they have to do the clean up before they leave, and if it takes their parents helping them, so be it.

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

It would be easier for me to name the rooms, ourt of seven, that are not my nemesis.
I taught Philip to do his laundry, and he loves to cook, but one would possibly not be able to see the actual floor in his bedroom.

A lady at our church thought it was awful that Philip had to do his laundry. I ak who did her sons laudry at college. she said, "Their girlfriends." Once I told that when Philip was home and brought his girlfriend. He said, teasingly, ----------, would you do my laundry. I don't think she even answered." Sara, you know who that was. And, BTW, Sara, we have a handsome, bald headed son in Nashville. ha He is 32 1/2.