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I cannot STAND this mess anymore! Long RANT!
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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 329606" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I can NOT recommend this for anyone else - and would not. However - about three weeks ago I blew the proverbial hiney gasket. I had tried - "Can we have a family meeting?" and then sat down calmly with everyone discussing how we all need to pull together <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/puppet.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":puppet:" title="puppet :puppet:" data-shortname=":puppet:" /> and help each other & not so that I could feel like a :queen: but so that we could help each other and have peace in the home. WELL!......that lasted all of (looks at corner of cobwebbed house) mmm yeah about that long. Then everyone went back to "Oh okay we sat, we listenened INTENTLY to the crazy lady, and that should count for a chore, or SOMETHING, and now we're going back to watching her be the silent maid, or the mime-servant, or the mute-cabana girl. OH and when she "STARTS up" again? "Why we'll sit and listen <u><strong><em>AGAIN</em></strong></u> (sigh, roll eyes but only where SHE can't see them) because it's cathartic for HER. </p><p></p><p>Well.....this is a vicious cycle that has gone on and on and on....and it's not like I'm running around with white gloves and a surgical mask in my own home expecting perfection in cleanliness. You have a sock, you wear the sock, you take the sock off , could you would you with a fox, could you would you in that box? I mean for the love of Hanes??? PUT THAT IN THE HAMPER or in the dirty clothes basket? Or how about...JUST FOR KICKS? Just for the sake of making me laugh like the large woman at the fair ride in the dark.....put it in the laundry room. But nooooooooo you take a sock off and it goes in a ball, and then you throw it across the room, or you take it off and leave it in the DINING ROOM???? (WTH?) or my favorite - in the bathroom (yes please mix the dirt with the water you leave on the floor 1" depth from the shower you take and make MUD pies on the tile floor then expect me to clean THAT too....WOW!!! HOW in the blue moon can ANYONE take a shower with a curtain and leave a rug sopping wet and a floor 1" thick with water? It's like Jumanji happens in our bathroom every single time you shower - I swear I feel the need to walk in my own toilet with a rifle or a butterfly net every time you walk out smelling like a man-hoochie---alligators could survive in that swamp. </p><p></p><p>And if I ask you to clean it up? You know CLEAN up after YOUR-S.E.L.F.? HOLY MOSES near the burning bush...you get so mad it's like you are going to spontaneously combust - which by the way if you did? I'd have to clean up THAT mess too - so please allow me to back off of my request before you burn a hole in my carpet and leave me with smoke damage. GOOD grief. </p><p></p><p>Then lets talk about your eating habits shall we? I'm installing a mall trash can, throwing out my kitchen table and installing a 2'x2' table with 2 chairs. Mmmmhmm. Yeah see- Go to a mall...and serve a teen a meal on a red plastic tray. Ever see them leave the dish on the sofa or coffee table there? Nope. They systematically follow the herd and dump their tray in the stone trash can with the lid. Voila. I mean it. Maybe the secret is to NOT keeping our homes so cozy? Instead of couches - we replace them with mall style benches? Instead of kitchens - Orange Julius, or Chick Filet windows. I'm still not sure what to do with the bathrooms. Even mall bathrooms could require a rifle or butterfly net and be caustic (see manual on germophobes) but still....maybe a washroom attendant at minimum wage? </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what the answer is, but the only solution I've found so far is minimizing, and doing the work myself. When I say minimizing - I mean....HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY minimizing. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/beautifulthing.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":beautifulthing:" title="beautiful thing :beautifulthing:" data-shortname=":beautifulthing:" /><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/goodluck.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":goodluck:" title="goodluck :goodluck:" data-shortname=":goodluck:" /></p><p></p><p>Hugs & Love </p><p>Your Sister in Combat</p><p>Merry Maid</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 329606, member: 4964"] I can NOT recommend this for anyone else - and would not. However - about three weeks ago I blew the proverbial hiney gasket. I had tried - "Can we have a family meeting?" and then sat down calmly with everyone discussing how we all need to pull together :puppet: and help each other & not so that I could feel like a :queen: but so that we could help each other and have peace in the home. WELL!......that lasted all of (looks at corner of cobwebbed house) mmm yeah about that long. Then everyone went back to "Oh okay we sat, we listenened INTENTLY to the crazy lady, and that should count for a chore, or SOMETHING, and now we're going back to watching her be the silent maid, or the mime-servant, or the mute-cabana girl. OH and when she "STARTS up" again? "Why we'll sit and listen [U][B][I]AGAIN[/I][/B][/U] (sigh, roll eyes but only where SHE can't see them) because it's cathartic for HER. Well.....this is a vicious cycle that has gone on and on and on....and it's not like I'm running around with white gloves and a surgical mask in my own home expecting perfection in cleanliness. You have a sock, you wear the sock, you take the sock off , could you would you with a fox, could you would you in that box? I mean for the love of Hanes??? PUT THAT IN THE HAMPER or in the dirty clothes basket? Or how about...JUST FOR KICKS? Just for the sake of making me laugh like the large woman at the fair ride in the dark.....put it in the laundry room. But nooooooooo you take a sock off and it goes in a ball, and then you throw it across the room, or you take it off and leave it in the DINING ROOM???? (WTH?) or my favorite - in the bathroom (yes please mix the dirt with the water you leave on the floor 1" depth from the shower you take and make MUD pies on the tile floor then expect me to clean THAT too....WOW!!! HOW in the blue moon can ANYONE take a shower with a curtain and leave a rug sopping wet and a floor 1" thick with water? It's like Jumanji happens in our bathroom every single time you shower - I swear I feel the need to walk in my own toilet with a rifle or a butterfly net every time you walk out smelling like a man-hoochie---alligators could survive in that swamp. And if I ask you to clean it up? You know CLEAN up after YOUR-S.E.L.F.? HOLY MOSES near the burning bush...you get so mad it's like you are going to spontaneously combust - which by the way if you did? I'd have to clean up THAT mess too - so please allow me to back off of my request before you burn a hole in my carpet and leave me with smoke damage. GOOD grief. Then lets talk about your eating habits shall we? I'm installing a mall trash can, throwing out my kitchen table and installing a 2'x2' table with 2 chairs. Mmmmhmm. Yeah see- Go to a mall...and serve a teen a meal on a red plastic tray. Ever see them leave the dish on the sofa or coffee table there? Nope. They systematically follow the herd and dump their tray in the stone trash can with the lid. Voila. I mean it. Maybe the secret is to NOT keeping our homes so cozy? Instead of couches - we replace them with mall style benches? Instead of kitchens - Orange Julius, or Chick Filet windows. I'm still not sure what to do with the bathrooms. Even mall bathrooms could require a rifle or butterfly net and be caustic (see manual on germophobes) but still....maybe a washroom attendant at minimum wage? I'm not sure what the answer is, but the only solution I've found so far is minimizing, and doing the work myself. When I say minimizing - I mean....HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY minimizing. :beautifulthing::goodluck: Hugs & Love Your Sister in Combat Merry Maid [/QUOTE]
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