Need to vent

jersma wrote:well, i think it would be just common courtesy to tell you that people are coming over. i hate it when people just stop by - there are days when i am just not dressed for company
of course now a days you can say you are feeling well, cough a bit and most people will just leave or leave you alone!

Laura wrote:I HATE THAT! SERIOUSLY, IF IM CLEANING ALSO AND IN CRAP CLOTHES AND LOOK ALL PSYCHO-ISH W/ MY HAIR BECAUSE IVE BEEN SCRUBBING THEN DING DONG....OH HEY MY PARENTS ARE COMING OVER. THANK YOU JERK!!!!!!!!

wicked1 wrote:I would be a little perturbed! I rarely have anyone just pop in, thank goodness! Most days I'm in my nightshirt. Some days the house looks great, some times it doesn't. I'm pretty much over getting stressed about such stuff. I have more important things to be concerned about. Most of the time, people come to see you, not your house, but, you're probably like me, and do it mostly for yourself! It's nice to have the house at least straightened!

jersma wrote:Considering I just spent 4 hours cleaning my living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway and guest bath...... i hate people to see my house messy, but over the years, i have relaxed a bit on that. I used to make a mad dash & clean when i knew my parents were coming over - that i have gotten over.
what i don't understand is how it gets so dang messy and it is just me??? when i was cleaning closets looking for garage sale stuff i couldn't believe how dusty my hall closet was and I never go in there - where does the dust come from??

sherrylovesronnie wrote:I used to have to put up with that when my hubbys sister lived close by us.she would just drop in with out telling us.my house is always cleaned.so i didn't have to worry about that.what got me more madder was i was still in my pj's and didn't want company.now that she moved away she lives about 2 hrs away she will call and say they are coming up but she calls when she is 25 minutes from our house.not nice at all.

Laura wrote:I HATE THAT! SERIOUSLY, IF IM CLEANING ALSO AND IN CRAP CLOTHES AND LOOK ALL PSYCHO-ISH W/ MY HAIR BECAUSE IVE BEEN SCRUBBING THEN DING DONG....OH HEY MY PARENTS ARE COMING OVER. THANK YOU JERK!!!!!!!!

Deedee wrote:

wicked1 wrote:I would be a little perturbed! I rarely have anyone just pop in, thank goodness! Most days I'm in my nightshirt. Some days the house looks great, some times it doesn't. I'm pretty much over getting stressed about such stuff. I have more important things to be concerned about. Most of the time, people come to see you, not your house, but, you're probably like me, and do it mostly for yourself! It's nice to have the house at least straightened!

....i have a clean house, but it's not because i am worried about what other people are thinking, its because I have this deep rooted obsession to always know where everything is located in my house. When things are out of place i can't keep track...so i go nuts. Yeah, I am certified!

I'm the same way too. I'm in my big tshirts and pj pants if I'm staying home all day. And when of course I go out then I do my makeup and hair and stuff. But I'm very like you when it comes to having my house organized. I know exactly where everything is because when I need something I like to know where the heck it's at. Not look all over the house like a mad woman for an hour for it. I keep the house clean and organized for my own sakes and my family too. So it's easy for us to keep the house clean. Dust and clean the bathroom and and stuff like that. And then once or twice a year look through the house to see if we can get rid of stuff we don't use or need. Like right now I can do a yard sale but see this past friday I had to take 5 items or less for the Halloween white elephant auction to raise money for our group, so I took 5 items and they sold there. It all comes back to us. So this came in handy. Now I have stuff set aside for this kinda stuff that we have alot in our Red Hat group. So it's for me to have a pile of stuff we don't use or need so when I need something I just go directly there and pull out stuff. I like it. It all comes back to use for prizes and games and food and stuff.

Deedee wrote:Hey, that is a great idea Ismile. I was keeping all my "garage sale " items in my front closet, but I just got sick of having no space one day and hauled it all off to Goodwill. Well, actually I should say Ldl hauled it off to Goodwill for me!!

But yeah, when I was a kid we didn't have a very tidy house, so we were always looking for something. And when I got my own place I have every since then been OBSESSED with always knowing where every single thing is. I remember when the kids were little and I would misplace something like my sewing scissors or hairbrush, the whole house came to a stop until that item was found. Poor kids, they had to put up with my neurosis...

Yeah, I took after my mom and my mom's mom (grandmother) . They always knew where to find what item and went directly toward it and I did my room growing up the same way, so now I do my house the same way and I passed it to my daughter and she's organized too. We are neat and know where all are stuff is at. We hate not finding something it drives us batty!!!