I’m excited to be guest posting today over at Homegrown Mom as part of her Homemaking for Girls series. Generally, when I have a guest post up somewhere, I also write one here. But today I’m sending you, my precious readers, over to the other site to read that post.
What’s it about? How to Deal with a Hopelessly Disorganized Daughter.
And of course, it’s written from the perspective of the daughter.
If you’ve hopped over here from Homegrown Mom . . . welcome! I encourage you to check out my About Me page, and to read about the methods I’m using as I work to change my brain and create a comfortable home for my family.
It's a great post, Dana. I really appreciate the perspective since I'm the organized mom in this case. It seems that creative people (like you and my daughter) are messier. I guess left brained people are more prone to organization. Well, I would never want to negate my daughter's creativity, so I will learn to accept her messiness.
Ummmm, Jimmie . . . who is this "Dana" person you're talking to?
Haha!
Honestly Jimmie, it's not necessarily accepting her messiness, it's accepting her. Make sense? The progress you make may never be what you think is necessary, but it's still progress.
{I'll try this again..}
Thanks for linking up the post! I had never seen her blog before and it seems like a wonderful place to draw information! Great post!
Thank you so much for that post! I am the chronically disorganized-now 26 years old with a husband, a house, and 2 daughters of my own-daughter. It's something I've really tried to buckle down on over the past few months, but it's so overwhelming at times. My husband is very orderly, organized, and analytical, so even when he really tries, he has a difficult time understanding why I just can't seem to work through certain tasks.
I'm so grateful you talk about how creative and intelligent you and I are. I can organize the best of parties, make something fabulous from "trash", and create amazing cakes and other baked goods, but ask me to unpack a box after a move, and I'm lost.
I enjoyed your post. I could relate to it from both the daughter view (from days gone by) and the mom view. Thanks for sharing with us.
Loved the post!
So I’m working my way all through the old posts but have to tell you that this means a lot to me! I love how your mom decided that cleaning your room to her satisfaction was less important than keeping your relationship! Go, mom!
Yep, she’s awesome!
Hi, I keep thinking I’ll comment, and then decide that I don’t really have the time to do it justice (I do that with a lot of things!?) But this time I just wanted to answer the question in your post. I identify as both – I’m a grown daughter who struggles with clutter and a frustrated mother who struggles with my daughter’s point blank refusal to part with ANYTHING (she’s currently sat with a sticker from a bag of cookies stuck to her leg, which she has saved so she can stick it on her wardrobe).
I’m trying to sort myself out before my children are grown up (currently they are 11 and 7, both girls).
I found your book on Google Books a few weeks ago – Decluttering at the Speed of Life, I read the preview and was hooked so I downloaded the whole thing. Then started reading your blog from the beginning. So much of what you have said makes so much sense to me. It was a relief to read your words about feeling so overwhelmed by stuff, especially when I’m looking for something I can’t find – to know it’s not just me. Some of it I’d already kind of figured out on my own, like laundry, and forcing myself to have routines, but the container concept literally was like a light bulb going on. All these years I’ve wanted more storage containers, a bigger house, a different wardrobe; what I really need is less stuff. You’ve given me hope that there is hope for me, that I can keep trying and eventually I’ll get there. Thank you for that.