Comments | verin_the_brown: A long weekend and a long morning

verin_the_brown

A long weekend and a long morning

Nov 02, 2009 10:45

This weekend I cleaned the garage. This was no small feat and involved about 800 trips up and down the stairs carrying stuff. I did it in secret while hubby was out because I knew he wouldn’t approve. I really did think that when he came back and saw the garage all clean and the work already done, he would actually be happy, but he wasn’t, he ( Read more... )

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echoweaver November 2 2009, 18:54:54 UTC

So is the cleaned garage still an open issue with you and hubby? It sounds like your styles are different enough that this is going to come up again and cause trouble. I'm in principle on your side; our house has gotten cluttered enough that it is beyond my tolerance threshold, and I've been trying to get it under control. I am the entropy problem in this household, and I know it, but at least I am aware that I'd rather live in a world where more things have a home and live there rather than on the floor.

verin_the_brown November 2 2009, 19:40:19 UTC

So is the cleaned garage still an open issue with you and hubby?

I think I am mostly over my affront of getting punished for my good deed. He cooled down a little when I explained why I did it and where I had put all the stuff he was most concerned about. In some cases, I had actually done what he intended with it. Also right away I brought back up a few empty boxes that he explained he wasn't saving, he just had them waiting to get cut down for recycling. When I brought them up he immediately cut them down and put them in the recycle bucket. Then he proceeded sweep the whole garage and do the last of the re-organization that I hadn't got to. Then he we through the SW toys. I had not intended for him to feel like he had to do all that stuff right away, but it was at least in some ways a peace offering and a signal that once the project was started, he was interested in seeing it through.

In retrospect, going deliberately behind his back because I knew better was a disrespectful thing to do.

It sounds like your styles are ( ... )

echoweaver November 2 2009, 19:53:05 UTC

This makes sense ( ... )

verin_the_brown November 2 2009, 20:03:06 UTC

SB is naturally a lot tidier than I am. I think it's safe to say that I am the only slob in our household.

And I don't think I'm a truly epic slob. I do have a clutter threshold; it's just a lot higher than his.

The disorder of my environment, even the messes I make myself and only I can clean up aren't closely related to my threshold. I probably have a medium clutter threshold. It's just that I feel like I never have enough time to keep things below my threshold.

Sometimes I get depressed when things get above my clutter threshold, but often I have the more useful reaction of wanting to attack and tidy everything.I get the urge whenever I see the clutter, but usually I don't have any time to follow the urge. Also, there is a lot of stuff that daunts me because I really don't know what to do with it. I will attack a dirty kitchen rather quickly because I know what to do with all the stuff, but stack of mail thwarts me ( ... )

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