Are You Really Trying Though?
Well it looks like I was organized enough this week to actually write another blog post, so that’s a start!
The sad part is, I have been trying to “get organized” since Circa 2004. I’m going on 15 years of attempting to get to the place where I can say that I Am Organized. Sounds ridiculous!
In 2004, I moved into my first apartment during my last year of college. I was on my own with no roommates for the first time, and I really felt like I needed to get my shit together. If I was out of ketchup, I no longer had roommates that would help me by already having it on the “house list”. I didn’t have anyone to share chores with, or to share any supplies with. It was time to figure it all out.
And I failed. Miserably. I ate terribly, I never had enough ingredients to every make anything that could be called a meal. Sometimes the whole place was clean when I had the possibility of a visitor, but rarely all at once, and my dining table (Costco folding table) was always a pile of crap. Mail, books, wrappers, bags, etc. Just literally crap.
Then the FlyLady landed in my life. I thought I had found my savior. If you’ve never heard of her and you’ve researched organizing your life, I am surprised. She runs a site that is committed to helping her “FlyBabies” to get organized. She promotes having “zones” in your home where you focus on decluttering and cleaning one Zone a week each month, and also on setting a timer for 15 minutes and getting done what you can. I should have known organizing wasn’t my forte when I couldn’t keep up with that program in the small, single bedroom apartment I lived in.
I continued to attempt the FlyLady approach throughout college and into my first new home with my husband. However, the system never really stuck. I always blamed the fact that it seemed geared more towards stay at home moms, and I gave myself permission to continue to be a disaster because I worked.
I have read all the books. Attempted so many systems. Started and failed numerous “30 day challenges”. Nothing sticks…unless you count things around my house that the kids touch!
Hopefully, using this blog as my weekly accountability, even to complain about how I’m still not following through, will help me slowly gain some ground on this getting-organized thing. Slowly but surely is my new thang.
Anyone else out there trying to get organized? Or tried the FlyLady system? Leave a comment!
