I may have mentioned this before, but I saw an Oprah years ago where she was talking to a woman with lots of problems, and the state of her home was just one. They showed pictures of a kitchen piled high with dishes EVERYWHERE, and the woman said that that was just from one weekend. Oprah looked at her and said something like, “A kitchen canNOT get that bad in just one weekend.”
Guess again, O.
My kitchen tonight would have earned equally horrified gasps from her studio audience.
And it was PERFECT on Christmas Eve.
Which was Thursday night.
Today is Sunday.
And we were gone most of Friday and all day Saturday.
I’m not going to play the “If I had people to cook my meals and clean my kitchen like she does” game. It’s my fault that the kitchen looked like that.
And there are many many people out there, without maids, who would never let their kitchen look that bad.
I do have excuses. I was sick (really). I had to fill stockings and put out Santa stuff after everyone left late on Christmas Eve and then I didn’t want to spend Christmas morning cleaning the kitchen.
But really, it’s mostly that I haven’t been keeping up with my daily tasks, and so the job looms bigger than it does when I’m in the habit of cleaning up small messes before they get big.
Tomorrow is a new day, and I just spent the last hour cleaning it up so that now it isn’t that bad. Not perfect, but not talk-show-audience-gasp worthy.
Oh, I am sooooo there! I really, really need to clean off the kitchen table, where everything has piled up since Christmas morning.
Thanks for doing the eat from the pantry challenge. I was reading moneysavingmon and scanned the list of bloggers that are taking on the challenge. I saw the name of your blog and realized I HAD to check it out. I am so there with you. I have to go do some stuff now but I plan to read through your entire blog this week while I'm on vacation from my paid job. My unpaid job this week is to get some/lots of this stuff in my house organized, donated, trashed, whatever is appropriate.
Too funny! I could have written that last comment. I also saw the name of your blog on the pantry challenge on moneysavingmom and had to come here and check it out! I've been reading from the beginning, and you are doing an amazing job!
I struggle with consistency too. Our house is mostly decluttered, but I talk myself out of doing my daily cleaning tasks too often, especially when the schedule gets hectic, and I have trouble keeping horizontal surfaces clear. 😉 Right now my goal is to keep my flaming hot spot, the kitchen table, clear LOL!
Have company coming Sunday so everything will be bright and shiny by then. Yay company!!
Hugs to you! Don't get discouraged. Every day is a clean slate!
I thought Oprah was rude to her "Hoarders" guests asking "how could anyone live that way?" they don't choose to it's just hard to climb out of once you are in too deep.