At the end of her article she stated, "This domestically challenged newlywed always welcomes your input!!!"
Hahaha... I love it! I had to laugh. (silently of course, because there was no one else to share my laugh, and what's the use of actually laughing out loud when you're alone!)
Anyway, back to the story. I realize that I'm slowly inching away from being a newlywed, but I think I will continue to claim that until I can get my house under control!
I'm just wondering, could that be why I replace a doorknob and it won't work? (or was that just due to the fact that I only partially read the all to confusing directions)
Is that why I forget to water my various plants? Or do I just rely to heavily on my 'life guard' plant, whose express purpose in life is to tell me it's time to pull out the watering can, which I forget to do until said plant guard droops lifelessly. The good thing about him is that he revives miraculously within minutes of receiving water. (I could draw a parallel there between men & food, but I won't)
Is that why I have no decorative inspiration for my house... or am I right to blame my lack of ornamental flourish on the crooked walls, paint sealed windows, and bad carpet?
Is that why my bedroom comforter is falling apart already. Or was that just a bad purchase combined with my bad choice to wash it in the machine rather than take it to the dry cleaners?
I don't know, but "This domestically challenged newlywed always welcomes your input!!!"
8 comments:
Haha, so glad I could make you laugh this morning. :) Thanks for linking to us. It is crazy how all those little things can add up to make us feel inadequate sometimes, huh? At least we're all here to help each other out.
I don't fall into the newlywed category, but certainly the domestically challenged one! :>) your post made me smile - how well I relate.
Liz, go ahead and claim it!! haha... I know we haven't officially met yet, but you certainly don't strike me as the domestically challenged type!! :)
I tried to hide my 'challenge' but since my house makes it quite obvious, it wasn't so easy. Then I found out it's much easier to just air it!! n it sure feels better to that hear that other obviously competent people share my feelings!
Thanks again Heather for the quote n encouragement!
You are so funny! :) Sometimes for me it's not that I don't know how to do things, but where to start. This is the first year (been married for 10) that I've painted and added color to our house...I love it!!
I just finished a basement room last night. I wish I could post a before and after picture. :) Brown paneling/brown carpet....ugh!
I enjoyed your post!
P.S. Don't worry about the door know thing...it happens to all of us. :)
Thank you Crystal! Actually, it's encouraging to know that someone else didn't just jump in and start painting first thing.... I've had different input to just do this or just do that, and I'm mentally shouting, I can't, I'm scared to try it!!! But really, it's gotta look better than it does now!
One (and I stress one) of my major draw backs is that a lot of my windows are painted shut, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to handle the fumes from paint. The last time I tried painting a little project inside, I ended up paying for it big time, I was pretty much sick from the smell, and my husband told me he thought it made me HIGH!!! How embarrassing! :)
PS... got any after pics of that painting project?
I'm a bit late to chime in on this post, but I just saw your blog linked on facebook and realized that I hadn't read it in a looooong time. I'm definitely domestically challenged, so you MUST tell me what this lifeguard plant is, because I always end up killing my houseplants. I recently found a book that seems to be very helpful called "The House that Cleans Itself" by Mindy Starns Clark. She suggests working WITH your habits instead of against them. For example, right now we are staying with my parents while Arthur works on our house, and our hamper is in our room. Arthur has a habit of tossing his clothes by the wall on the bathroom floor instead of carrying them back to the hamper when he's done, and I've been guilty of that a few times myself, so I put a small laundry basket there. When it's full, I carry it back to my room and empty it into the hamper. We still have the bad habit, but at least the clothes are somewhat contained and look neater. When we were in Missouri, whatever we were reading at the time ended up in a big messy pile by the recliner. Instead of constantly moving it to some other spot, I got a small basket and set it there, so the mess stayed contained instead of piling up, falling over, getting knocked, kicked or blown across the room, etc.
I think it also helps to link certain tasks you don't get done to things you wouldn't forget. For example, when I brush my teeth in the morning, I wipe down my mirror and counter, and it does wonders for the appearance of the bathroom. When I get a bowl for breakfast, I put all the other bowls in the cabinet. I tend to put of putting the laundry away, so when I put on a skirt, I put the rest away, along with Arthur's jeans. When I open the drawer to find a shirt, I put the clean ones in it since I'm there anyways. It helps a lot. Those may not be your problems, but they've sure been issues for me, and this is the best way I've found of dealing with them.
I am always looking for better ways of doing things too, so I'm open to comments also! It's too bad all of us young wives can't get together now and then and exchange problems/solutions.
Someone gave me the plant, so I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I really think it's a peace lilly???
I definitely struggle with some of those same things! I too have had to 'strategically' place a clothes basket for my husbands clothes! ;) ...and as for laundry!!! ...wow, putting away laundry is one of my biggest issues! For some reason it seems like such a problem! I may have to look up this book that you're talking about!
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