Welcome to My Messy House

I was a messie kid. I remember being put in my sty… I mean room… and told not to come out until it was clean. The whole thing was too overwhelming for me! For starters, I didn’t know how to declutter, and to make things worse, I didn’t know how to maintain. Even when my stepmom threw away three bags of my stuff against my will, I still couldn’t get it together. I didn’t do this to be spiteful… I was just clueless.
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It’s never too early to think about holiday preparations. Now is the time to start getting ready. I’ll be starting in September with the plan on Organized Christmas. Whatever I do has to be easy and painless, since I won’t have a lot of time.

My holiday breaks up into several categories:

Food
Presents
Cleaning
Visiting
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I’m nearing the end of the semester, so I’m looking forward to having three weeks to work on my house and this site! One of the changes I hope to make is to add the ability to have other authors. It might be a long time before I have the time to write the many articles I would like to write for the site, but I can’t explain why I won’t have time just yet. I would love it if some of our regular messies could contribute articles. Some day, I might even be able to pay!

I’m testing a new way to post updates. I haven’t forgotten this site!

Here’s a problem from a reader. If you guys would like, you can take a shot at solving it:

Help! I have two dogs that make a mess of my house! They stay outside in the back yard while I’m at work - the problem is when they come in! They are both still puppies, one is 9 months and the other is a year and four months, so they love to play and wrestle and get DIRTY! I wipe them off really well before letting them in the house but they still have residual dirt and mud on their paws and coats. I already tried wood chips in the kennel to help keep the mud down and rotating them between two yards to let the grass grow back, but so far it hasn’t done much to keep the dirt out of the house. I sometimes let them in the basement to dry off before coming inside. We have door mats as well. Any suggestions to help keep the floors and carpets cleaner (at least not dirty brown) and keep me from scrubbing and shampooing all the time????

If you have any ideas, go ahead and post a comment!