One hanger on the floor doesn’t bother me.
Twenty-five hangers on the floor do bother me.
2, 8, 16 or 24 hangers . . . somehow I don’t see those.
I used to think I didn’t see the first one, but I’ve realized that I do see it.
I see it and think, “One hanger isn’t worth my time. The room still looks pretty good. I’ll just need to set aside some time to do a quick cleaning in here so that one hanger doesn’t turn into four hangers.”
Ha ha. (Knowing laugh.)
Or . . . I can just bend over and pick up the one hanger. Then the room magically (but not magically) no longer needs a designated pick-up time.
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Think I tripped over a kiddie hanger that was on my floor 3 times before I picked it up the other day………..what is wrong with me (shakes her head).
Oh no another one of my excuses busted 🙂 Good job with the 31 days of excuses btw!
Sorry!
I do that, too. I have good moments and bad. I try to tell myself that if I just do the little things before it builds up, it will be much easier to stay on top of then to tunnel through a piled up mess after I’ve ignored the little things for too long.
Thanks for sharing.
My friend and I just had a conversation about this the other day. We were saying how you don’t pick up the one thing, because the one thing doesn’t make the room clean. And you don’t have the time to clean the whole room. So you leave it. And eventually, once you’ve stepped over it enough times, you don’t even see it anymore. Until you do. And then it drives you crazy because it’s always there. Until you pick it up. Along with the rest of the room.
I think it’s a type of perfectionism. Or at least I’d like to think so. If you can’t do it all the way don’t do it.
ugh. again, you and i got the same genes. it’s a sickness. i know this game, and for me, it looks like this:
no hanger on the floor = TOTALLY amazingly, clean room
one hanger on the floor = TOTALLY amazingly clean room with a hanger there
2-5 hangers on the floor = still, a really clearn room, just some hangers to deal with later
5-20 hangers = the room’s getting a little cluttered, but I can deal with it later, no problem
20-100+ hangers = the room is trashed, and I can’t deal with it! i’m outta here!
In your early blog days you wrote a story like this, I can’t remember the item that was on the floor but I remember you asking ‘what is wrong with me?’, and me thinking ‘I do that sometimes, it’s because your overwhelmed and it’s just easier to leave it’ – that may or may not be true for you, but its definitely true for me. Ever since I read that story I’ve been noticing; just; how; often; I do this. And how much energy it takes to walk past it and have that internal conversation and to continue to ignore it, how much it effects my mood and not in a nice way as I think not nice things about how *it* got there in the first place. And I started just picking it up (or cleaning it or whatever) when I noticed myself planning on just leaving it there instead. The difference emotionally is enormous – and as an added bonus it helps with the clutter too.
I have a solution for the “hangers on the floor” situation. I keep 3 small cardboard boxes on my closet floor. They are the size and shape that the hangers will stand at an angle in them. That way, they don’t get tangled and are easy to grab and take to the utility room to hang clean laundry. One is for skirt hangers; another is for flocked shirt hangers and the 3rd is for wire hangers. When I remove something from my closet, the hanger goes into it’s designated box.