The Australian internet is all a-twitter with talk of The Organised Housewife's
20 day challenge to organise & clean your home. Now, I've confessed before that
I don't do housework. But I think that's about to change. These photos are straight out of the camera (and in some instances, I used the flash). I took these photos at 9am this morning, without tidying anything.
Husband's side of our bedroom. We have mastered floordrobes, but can never find anything.
My desk. Unfiled paperwork, unread magazines, stuff shoved under the desk that has no home.
Dining room. Only reasonably neat room of the house, because I clean it up so we can eat here.
Our sideboard. Where we leave our keys every night. (not visible is the floor underneath.)
Nat's room. Too many toys that we have never sorted. She currently refuses to sleep in here.
Douglas' room. He cleans this instead of doing chores. And it's all under the desk or in the wardrobe.
The hallway from Douglas' room. He threw all that stuff this morning instead of doing chores.
The entryway as you come in the front door.
The hallway behind the room at the entrance.
The kids rumpus room/our downstairs entertaining area.
The kids tv-watching area (part of the rumpus room)
Laundry. Also where the dog sleeps in summer.
Even my craft room isn't immune.
Maybe we shouldn't have converted the garage until we were ready to use the space.
A closer view of the bikes at the front of the shed.
The rest of the garage space.
The only rooms I haven't shared are the bathroom, kitchen and Chloe's room.
I also haven't made excuses for the state of each room.
I can make plenty, but at the end of the day, we are all incredibly lazy, taking the easy way out with the kids, and have too much stuff.
I understand that I won't fix this in 20 days.
But I can start.
And put good routines in place.
And make it manageable for everyone to keep it in order.
Because Steve constantly whinges about "stepping on stuff" but refuses to pick it up and move it "because no one else does".
And that attitude is filtering down to the kids.
None of us have any respect for our stuff.
And today I'm saying enough.
September sees the start of us fixing that.
All of this family.
(I have yet to inform Steve)
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