Housework

I want honesty.

Seriously.

I look around my house sometimes and I don't like what I see. But, I have no clue how to fix it.

Do you have "stuff" laying around? I see ends of envelopes, pen tops, kids pieces of toys..... I don't mean "everywhere" but in random little places where they shouldn't be. Seriously- how does one walk up the stairs and see an Uno card laying there and not pick it up? It happens here. If I don't pick it up, or tell someone to pick it up, it will stay there and grow into the carpet. The house is clean.... that's not the issue. It's just "cluttered".

I've tried different things. I've tried picking it all up, and making a "stack" for everyone on the steps and made them pick it all up. I have thrown it all in trash bags and waited a week to see if anyone looks for any of the items. If they don't, I pitch em.

I guess I feel like I'm fighting this losing battle. I look at the pottery barn catalog or whatever catalog comes that day and I want my house to look like that. But maybe it's not realistic. I'm hoping "real" people's houses just don't look like that all the time. Maybe they just look like that when people come over, and the rest of the time, they look like mine.

At least I hope so.