Welcome to My Messy House

Forum registration is now open for a limited time. We have a very special community on the forum, so it’s important to ease new people in slowly. I’ll probably close the registration after we get about ten registrations, but I plan to re-open registration next month. As always, you should be able to communicate with each other on the comments on these posts!

Things are still messy around here. I finally upgraded some of the software, but I still have to work on the forums. Sigh. I wish I could just snap my fingers and make it happen. The categories are broken right now… it will take me some time to fix them.

The board update has to wait until my semester is over (a little less than a month.) The board has thousands of posts, and I don’t want to lose any of them, so I need to make sure this goes smoothly.

I’m still decluttering. This week, I’m working on the linen closet, which has become a catch-all. I’m going to write an article about the linen closet once I’m done, and even post pictures!

I’ve gotten a lot of old paper, cardboard, magazines, and clothes out of the house. I have a long way to go, but I can see the progress when I look around. The house is currently “messy” (thanks to the linen closet project), but not suffocating. The emptier spaces around the mess help show that the mess is temporary.

Hi again! If you got an email from the My Messy House forums, but cannot log in, take heart! I’m still working on upgrading the boards (target is this weekend.) Once the new boards are up and the moderators are comfortable, we will open registration. If you have not been active in the past year, your account might not exist any more, but you are welcome to re-register! I’ll post a heads up when the new boards are up.

Today, I gained some organizing stuff (folders and folding storage boxes) and got rid of two boxes of magazines (recycling) and a bag of clothes (Goodwill.) I also worked more on my corner of the living room. I’m trying to spend less than an hour a day on decluttering (so I can make it a daily habit) and about half an hour on declutter/maintenance. I’ve started washing down the bathroom after I’m done getting ready in the morning. With the counters all clear (except for the clock, handsoap, and electric toothbrush), it’s really easy to clean up. I also cleared the edge of the tub so all that’s on there is my current shampoo (I can tend to be a product junkie, but that’s another habit I’m decluttering), DH’s shampoo, and my bodywash. That makes it really easy to clean. Sadly, the bathroom is not done… I still have to do under the sink, but that’s two days’ worth of work and right now I’m just skimming the surface and grabbing the easy stuff.

A really inspiring site I have found is Zen Habits. I spent a while this weekend reading a lot of the archives and I’ve added it to my daily reads for inspiration.

I’m still working on the new forum software. It’s taking forever to export the old board! If I’m not done by tomorrow (Monday), I’ll reopen the old board for current members and keep trying to get the new one up.

Today, I did not buy anything.

I decluttered the bathroom counter a bit more and cleaned out the medicine cabinet so DH’s supplies could fit in there. I have three tubs of moisturizer I need to use up! It’s crazy!

I also decluttered the magazines in the bathroom. Set aside most of them for recycling.

Tomorrow, I intend to bag up the leather shoes and purses that I can get to easily in my bedroom and take them to Goodwill (or at least get them into the Jeep!) along with the two bags of donation clothes I have waiting in the bedroom.