People are people, everywhere

[nelladarren]

Lately I've been frequenting house cleaning and motivation blogs and forums (the most important being http://www.unfuckyourhabitat.com) and found out that, weirdly, it's very similar to weight-loss forums

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[blaufeuer]

Summt zustimmend "People are people" ;-)

[nelladarren]

Argh, und Ihr Ohrwurm für heute ist...

[patoadam]

Hi! Nice to see you here. I know you post on Facebook but I hardly ever look there.

I sympathize. I am currently trying to clean up my office at home not only because it will look nicer but because every piece of paper is something I need to take care of and there are so many of them that I can't find the most important and urgent ones.

At least I haven't encountered any clean-up-your-office forums.

Good luck!

[nelladarren]

Well, in those rare cases I actually have anything to say I still use LJ (and I still skim my flist occasionally); FB is for one-liners and sharing web-stuff.

http://www.unfuckyourhabitat includes offices, too, btw, if you're looking for a friendly drill instructor :)

[jelas]

Do you also get the type of "no matter what I eat I just do not gain any weight at all" in the cleaning forums?
Btw: cleaning forums? I would not have guessed... But there is possibly a forum for everything. Literallly everything. The internet makes it possible. *s*

[nelladarren]

A good one, I remember those, too! Not yet, actually, but I'd subsume them into the chain-saw people category...

Cleaning forums can be motivational. They make you aware that your mess isn't even THAT bad and can still can be cleaned up.

Since I'm responsible for the whole house I got really scared to let my mom's apartment go messier than it is (messy corners but rather clean) and by that there's an actual chance that I'm really changing my household habits.

My own flat has become a little better too, even though my priorities are upstairs. I've managed not only to keep my mom's apartment on the non-disgusting clean level it had, I'm attacking her actual messes, too - which means battling her horder mentality. Well, I often find that if she doesn't know I threw it away she'll never miss the crap ;D