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It's All In Vain

December 14, 2006

I am reminded of the age old question, "why should I make my bed if I'm just going to mess it up again?" My mom always told me to make my bed, pick up my room, keep things clean and all the normal stuff that I never listened to. Prolly cause I knew that if I didn't do any of that stuff my mom would most likely do it for me. And if she didn't then I could simply shove stuff aside and let it set.

Looking back I now understand what my mother had to deal with. All the cleaning and laundry and dishes and meals and all the stuff that has to be done day after day. My mother would work on keeping things picked up and cleaned up every single day of her life and I never could figure out why. What is the point? Why spend all that time doing all of that cleaning? Just pick a day or two out of the week to clean or clean once a month like I clean my room. No big deal. I can now say that I was dumb. I realize why my mom would clean constantly.

If you don't take time to clean up some stuff every single day then it just piles up. And it piles up and piles up until you run out of places to make piles. Then you've got a mess that takes you hours to clean up. It's horrible.

Tonight I went to wal-mart. I brought all of the groceries out of the store and went to put them in the trunk of the car. Guess what? TRUNK WAS FULL! So I go to put the stuff in the back seat. Guess what? BACK SEAT WAS FULL OF JUNK TOO! So I just pile it all in the car on top of stuff and drive home. I get home, take all of the groceries into the house and when I get into the kitchen guess what? THE KITCHEN COUNTER WAS FULL. I had to put all the bags on the floor to try and put things away. I go to put my jacket up on the coat rack and guess what? COAT RACK IS FULL. My jacket just falls off. I was so angry after all of that mess that I spent the rest of the night cleaning out the cars, cleaning the house, and putting everything that I don't have a clue where it goes on the spare bed.

Now the spare bed is piled a mile high full of stuff without a home and so I guess it was a waste of my time to spend hours cleaning off the bed the other day just to pile it back up again. It is a cycle that never ends. Mom, how did you keep up with this? AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Comments

Posted by: Nick
December 15, 2006 08:18 AM

That's what our life has been like too. And, coincidentally, after six+ months of marriage, I finally broke down and cleaned out my wife's car yesterday.

I think we're going to have to find some new rhythm for our lives, rearrange schedules or something.

Posted by: Pressed
December 15, 2006 09:28 AM

I definatly have experience in the car cleaning out buisness. We had a schedule at one point for cleaning the house and it worked really well. But somehow we got off schedule and never went back.

Posted by: Nick
December 16, 2006 12:47 AM

it's funny the things u try to figure out. we've tried having my wife put laundry in the washer when she leaves for work, then i move it to the dryer before i leave for class. just trying to incrementally get things done.

if you haven't read David Allen's book, "Getting Things Done", I recommend it. It has really helped me in the last few months.