This is what the Grandmas are talking about.
Y’know, the well-meaning Grandmas who (when I complain of my messy home) assure me that I’ll miss the mess someday?
I know their hearts are right and they’re speaking out of wisdom gained from experience, but I do doubt that they truly understand what “messy” means to me.
I absolutely will miss the fact that a newly organized and no-longer-stuffed-full shelf just begs to be turned into a napping place for a puppy.
Yes, that makes me smile.
But the random pair of dirty undies that somehow ends up behind the television, hanging precariously from the cords?
I have a hard time believing I’ll miss that.
Of course . . . I’ve been wrong before.
Amen Sista.
I read your e-book last night. It’s wonderful. Well done, Nony.
I hear what you’re saying, BUT……..
Many years ago while looking for loose change in the checkout aisle, I pulled out a pair of Barney underwear out of my coat pocket, a little embarrassing at the time, but that little girl who wore those is all grown up with a baby of her own. Maybe this is my sentimental hoarder talking, but I wish I would have kept a pair of those Barney underwear! 🙂
haha so the underwear thing, it’s not only happens in my house,good to know 🙂
😉
I’m definitely with you on the “Don’t realize how messy you are”.
It’s all that hard work you did to clear the shelf that gave you the space to see the puppy napping, and maybe that’s the best motivation for decluttering and deslobbing ever.
I’m soo glad I’m not the only one that occasionally find underwear hanging from the cords behind the tv…or other places that underwear should NEVER be! LOL!
The good thing is that we grandma’s have forgotten the tremendous messes children make. That means that you’ll forget too!
I know I won’t miss the pocket kleenex system! Big bunch of clean ones in left coat pocket, dirty gets folded up and stuck in right coat pocket to be dumped into the trash when I got home. Because I wasn’t going to leave dirty kleenex in the church pew, ewwww!