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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 489274" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I'm a fellow perfectionist. It can be a pretty awesome trait to have, but it can also become a pretty heavy duty fault too. One of those 2 edge sword deals. </p><p></p><p>Used to be someone would come to visit and every surface in my home was scrubbed to perfection (not that it usually wasn't to begin with). I'm serious when I say people could sit and eat off my floors. A visit from my mom could send me into scrubbing walls, windows, closets.........Why I dunno because as husband used to say.....honey she finds fault with something anyway, stop killing yourself. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't just cleaning, it was everything though. Meals weren't too awful, I at least enjoyed cooking, clean up always svcked though. lol </p><p></p><p>While this is a good thing on so many levels...........Like with the cleaning I've been having to do.........it's not so good. I have to be careful and force myself to just surface clean first, to get the worst of it out of my way, then go back and do the heavy duty organizing and cleaning and scrubbing. Otherwise I get caught up in the details and I'm exhausted before I'm 1/3 of the way done with a room. Unfortunately I haven't been overly successful about details and that is why I'm still at it. But if you focus on details say in a room as trashed as most of my house was and filled with mountains of clutter.....you wind up giving up because it takes forever. I've been having issues with giving up because I DO have to do the details to get things organized and get husband's stuff completely cleared out. </p><p></p><p>I've just been continuously making myself start over. </p><p></p><p>You don't have to be June Cleaver and I'll never forget the first cluttered house I walked into as an adult. I was stunned. Evidently my mom's friends were all people who thought they had to be June Cleaver too. lol And I used to die cuz everytime mother in law came over to the house for some reason or other, which was rare, the house would be cluttered of course......ugh Until one day mother in law laughed and told me to stop worrying about it. It never failed that if her mother in law came to visit her house was always cluttered too, said she could keep the darn thing spotless 24/7 but the one time it wasn't was when her mother in law would show up on her doorstep. lol THAT is when I began to relax about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 489274, member: 84"] I'm a fellow perfectionist. It can be a pretty awesome trait to have, but it can also become a pretty heavy duty fault too. One of those 2 edge sword deals. Used to be someone would come to visit and every surface in my home was scrubbed to perfection (not that it usually wasn't to begin with). I'm serious when I say people could sit and eat off my floors. A visit from my mom could send me into scrubbing walls, windows, closets.........Why I dunno because as husband used to say.....honey she finds fault with something anyway, stop killing yourself. It wasn't just cleaning, it was everything though. Meals weren't too awful, I at least enjoyed cooking, clean up always svcked though. lol While this is a good thing on so many levels...........Like with the cleaning I've been having to do.........it's not so good. I have to be careful and force myself to just surface clean first, to get the worst of it out of my way, then go back and do the heavy duty organizing and cleaning and scrubbing. Otherwise I get caught up in the details and I'm exhausted before I'm 1/3 of the way done with a room. Unfortunately I haven't been overly successful about details and that is why I'm still at it. But if you focus on details say in a room as trashed as most of my house was and filled with mountains of clutter.....you wind up giving up because it takes forever. I've been having issues with giving up because I DO have to do the details to get things organized and get husband's stuff completely cleared out. I've just been continuously making myself start over. You don't have to be June Cleaver and I'll never forget the first cluttered house I walked into as an adult. I was stunned. Evidently my mom's friends were all people who thought they had to be June Cleaver too. lol And I used to die cuz everytime mother in law came over to the house for some reason or other, which was rare, the house would be cluttered of course......ugh Until one day mother in law laughed and told me to stop worrying about it. It never failed that if her mother in law came to visit her house was always cluttered too, said she could keep the darn thing spotless 24/7 but the one time it wasn't was when her mother in law would show up on her doorstep. lol THAT is when I began to relax about it. [/QUOTE]
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