Cleaning up the clutter!
With the holidays my wife was been doing a lot of little projects
for the clubs she belongs to and friends and she were leaving a trail of stuff.
She was not cleaning up after herself and the clutter was getting out of hand.
I needed to confront her about it when she got home. I thought why should I
clean up and put away the stuff she used. I decided I would just clean up the
stuff I had used and left out.
I started picking up and cleaning up and putting the stuff I
used away. Man, I can be a real pig. I found things I had used weeks ago. I
spent a good 40 minutes just going around and collecting things I had used and
not put away. I even found things I could not remember using ( These were
things that my wife must have used, but they were my stuff so I put
them away so I could find them when I needed them).
As I put things away, I started feeling good that I was getting
rid of some of the mess. It is nice to be organized. I even cleaned up part of
my work bench, emptied waste baskets (the ones you seldom use) The amount of
stuff I threw out was impressive…sure glad I did it before big trash day so it
would not have to sit around for a week.
I must have tidied up for about 90 minutes, and I could actually
see a big difference. Looking around my first thought was that I must have
cleared away most of her mess also. 8-) I smiled to myself…I am sure glad I
cleaned up my mess and “had not said anything to the wife about her mess”. When
she gets home I think I will offer to help straighten out her mess. It should
only take about 10 minutes. 8-)
