Poll Do You Have Trouble Keeping Your Home Orderly?

[NightKitten]

I find I can't for the life of me keep the entropy from returning to my home. I am wondering if it is a PTSD side-effect depression or something else.

 

[Addy]

My difficulty with keeping my home 'orderly' stems from both depression and ptsd/dissociation. When I am having a real rough patch with flashbacks, etc. I can go into this mode where I 'check out.' I can float away and be on the ceiling. Seeing as how the ceiling is clean, I can convince myself that everything is orderly and clean... the way it 'should' be. Weird, I know... but I totally understand!

 

[Reclusive]

OMG, you should see my house! I'm getting better about it little by little, but it's still really just the bare minimum to get by. I think it's the depression, for me. And for my fiance. It just gets so overwhelming to try to do stuff. And then things that are "two-parters" like laundry and the like, I always forget to go back to.

 

[Srain]

OMG!! Are you kidding me! :whistling: This is how it goes...

Every couple of years I (ingrained in me-thanks dad!:tup:) I grab garbage bags and boxes and begin the "clutter free" phase! This entails every card, vase of my fabulous "Dead Flowers", growing stacks of framed-unframed-soon-to-be framed-and just plain computer printed photos ALL go into memory boxes. Along with all the tons of other assorted knick knacks that we've managed to clutter every available space with. Out out out...I can't breathe with all this "stuff!" everywhere. Paper.......shred, file, shred, bag, shred, recycle.

End of Summer through Autumn and Winter...Bingo!
I'm a cleaning monster! Moving around, clean, clear, clutter, free!
I am afraid to wonder at those times, months actually, when I am unable to barely move or lift a broom, but I do.

Winter through Summer:
At least we started out clutter-free and clean because that was then and this is now...:ninja:
I have a dog that shreds at least as much fur as another dog per day. Now that my hair has not seen a salon in over a couple of years when it shreds it's a couple feet long so my husband makes quite the displace of pulling and pulling at one should it get on him, it does wonders for my housekeeping ego. Needless to say, don't wear white around here, it will be black by the time you leave and a bit fuzzy. And the dust, I am unsure how this happens but there is dust every single day! I just don't understand that! I have all the little conveniences, believe me, but this dust - despite the freaking rains - is still there. It must have gotten the memo on how much I really hate housework. :speechless:

So, I would gander to say that long story short, yes, I have a problem. :)

Rain

 

[Gamereign555]

It can be tough for me, my girlfriend wasn't raised to clean anything, that's right 'no chores'???. Her parents are hoarders and have been for a long time. I have always been the one to do the cleaning in the house but it's hard to be motivated to do it sometimes.

 

[NightKitten]

Its nice to see I'm not the only one with cleaning issues. Funny thing is I wasn't raised that way but in my case living alone no one else sees the mess so "I figure why bother?". I realize that it is my low self-esteem and depression talking.

 

[Gamereign555]

I get what you feel there, I am really good at cleaning big messes but walking around with a feather duster never was my thing.

Besides, you can always watch hoarders to feel better about your situation and just be glad your not poopin in a bag and tossing it in the bathroom like some people have decided to do..

 

[NightKitten]

Besides, you can always watch hoarders to feel better about your situation and just be glad your not poopin in a bag and tossing it in the bathroom like some people have decided to do..

Ha ha, Yes I used to watch Jerry Springer to make myself feel better.

 

[The Albatross]

Our house is fairly need but not very orderly (which aggrivates my ADD at times)... but it's not me per se... I have help. My husband is a pack rat. He gets attached to things and doesn't want to give them up, even holey t-shirts or worn out shoes. When he was a military child... they moved frequently and his relationships and socialization were affected enough that he "attaches" to objects more than people. So it's 50/50 around here... because I get, at times quite affected by clutter and it revs up my ADD and affects my thinking and ability to make decisions. I did though get to go away for a month one time, and found that on my own I am basically a neat and tidy person. Who knew?

 

[freakofnurture]

It used to be much worse since I hated clean, orderly rooms for looking like no one inhabits them.

Now it depends on my level of energy. Most of the stuff lying around my room is dirty clothes.

 

[kimba]

It depends upon what is going on with me. Sometimes I avoid the dishes and dirty clothes while other times it bothers me and I'm not satisfied until it is done. Good thing too so I'm not drowning in one or the other!

 

[KrazyKat]

I feel constantly overwhelmed, like the ten buttons being pushed at once. My mind goes from one thing to another and it's hard to get anything 100% done. Mostly I don't even see the clutter. And then I'm away and I come back and it is a shock. It gets worse because I don't keep up with the paper that comes into the house, and there are too many active projects spread out and piled up. When I see it, I feel exhausted just looking at it. And I wonder if it's some way of keeping me down, keeping the world at bay, reinforcing how alone and afraid I can feel.