Taexalia

wild.life

Clutter Free Carpet!

I hate clutter. I can't stand it. It creeps and crawls across the floor and takes over. It hides things. I am quite sure it dissolves things. It gets out of control and it overwhelms me. I hate it. I rant about it and I rant at it. I feel like I will never see a day when there is not a clutter pile growing somewhere in our home. I dream about being a neat-freak and being able to locate every obscure object at the touch of a good looking, dust free, well organised storage solution.

To be fair to my chaotic living space, it has been subjected to a long haul upheaval this year. First we had the central heating replacement and then the long wait for the kitchen replacement. Things had to be moved, things had to go, carpets and flooring came up, chaos reigned. The problem is that the chaos danced hand in hand with the general propensity of the residents to create clutter.

Now I am faced with the prospect of trying to regain control (this suggests I once had some - this is not really so). I am faced with the prospect of motivating myself to *finish* the kitchen - paint the walls, put up new tiles. I am faced with the prospect of other DIY adventures - like turning the new cupboard we gained when the old hot water tank left into a well designed storage cupboard, one that is a pleasure to open and bliss to locate objects in.

It has to be said that I am about as excited about DIY at the moment as I am about housework - my commitment never to become someone who wastes her life on dusting is really what comes between me and neat-freak bliss. I have way more interesting things to waste my life on!

The thing about working at home is that I have to be here more than I ever had to whilst in employment. This means that my moods, my productivity, my creative spurts are somewhat influenced by the state of the place. So it would be logical that I would learn to keep my space Zen like.

If anyone knows how to learn that, please tell me. I have tried FlyLady and in the end my response to the Shine Your Sink emails was to re-route them to an email account that was only for FlyLady, never log in and pay for the stupid sink to be replaced.

Anyway, I tidied my Workroom today. I rediscovered the floor and it feels like such a relief. I actually have room to put my easel up again and think about starting a new painting. My desk is so shiny it is begging me to please do some polymer clay playing.

But above all else, there is now one room I can retreat to when the clutter in the rest of the rooms attacks me.