Cleaning Vs. Organizing

[kandigurl]

[lj-angst intro]So I've been thinking about the times in my life where I was CONSTANTLY posting to LJ or FB or various forms of social media, and mostly they were times when I was avoiding doing something else

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[aposteriori]

I had the same WTF moment when I learned about cleaning up for the cleaning people. Like... I don't actually CARE if my windows get scrubbed or the faucet shines. I just wanted someone to make it so I can see the top of the kitchen table. The thing with organizing is that I'm lazy. I actually do have a place for most (not all) things... but I really, really suck at putting things back in the place

[kandigurl]

Yeah, I feel like there has to be a good way to give things a place so they are at hand but also easy to put away? That's kind of what I try to do but there are so many things I DON'T have places for that it doesn't always work out and I'm left with a pile of crap with no homes.

Marie Kondo says if you store similar things together then putting them away or getting to them won't be a big deal but I think she is on crack. Also no one who has been obsessively organizing their shit since childhood has the right to tell me my habits will magically change once things have places.

[matt1993]

The part of being an adult I struggle with the most is getting basically no free time ever now that I have a job. Sure, I get a three-day weekend every other week, but even those only feel like one-day weekends to me. :(