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Post by tskeeter on Oct 23, 2013 18:49:01 GMT -5
Does your house look like a magazine's house?
Yup, Hoarder's Daily.
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Post by busymom on Oct 23, 2013 18:57:30 GMT -5
Does your house look like a magazine's house? What was the question again? With a dog, a child with special needs, & a DH who never checks his feet before tracking up my carpet, NO. Not happening anytime soon.
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Post by kittensaver on Oct 23, 2013 19:02:44 GMT -5
My former house was VERY near the old MGM studios and the exterior was in a number of old Keystone Cops and Laurel and Hardy movies. Photographs of it are also in some of the local history/history of the studios books floating around La La Land. Does that count?
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Post by midjd on Oct 23, 2013 19:15:54 GMT -5
Same here. DH is pretty tidy as well, so between the two of us it never gets too bad. Clutter puts me on edge and even if I'm tired/feeling super lazy, it will bother me more to sit around and look at a messy house than to clean for an hour or two. I grew up in a very small, cluttered house, which has probably influenced my behavior. (But ask me again next October when I have an 11 month old ) OTOH, try as I might, my car is always a disaster. I have no idea why messiness bothers me so much in my house/office but not the car.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 19:18:52 GMT -5
No, ours doesn't look like a magazine layout and I don't care. I do wish DH were a little more meticulous about cleaning but it's clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. Most of the rooms are uncluttered but there are areas such as my night table in the bedroom and the kitchen table and the desk in the kitchen that are always piled up. And then there's DH's office. The furniture is a comfortable mix of whatever I was able to cadge from my Ex (some of which belonged to his parents), other pieces I bought after the divorce, and what DH brought into the marriage. It's not a bog priority of ours. We just want to be comfortable and not have the Board of Health come after us.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 19:22:08 GMT -5
Angel, I've been decluttering my house for a few years now. LOL Like I mentioned in a prior post, one of the keys to keeping clutter to a minimum (at least for me) is having a place for everything to go. That way you don't have to think about where you're going to put stuff when you put it away or just stuff it someplace and not be able to find it when you need it.
When I first started, it was with easy stuff. Stuff that I knew I didn't like, didn't want, didn't need. I gave it away or threw it away. After several rounds with easy stuff (and it got easier to make instant decisions as I kept doing it), I said "to heck with it, if I don't love it or use it, it has to go", so that was my criteria for getting rid of or keeping stuff for a few more rounds. That helped me get rid of stuff that I didn't really care for, but I'd kept because somebody gave it to me. The stuff I kept, had to have a "home". I still try to live by the if I don't think it's beautiful or find it useful, get rid of it, line of thought.
It really is a never ending process, especially when you have growing children. You're constantly bringing things in and it can get overwhelming if you never get anything out. Some people decide to just work for 20 minutes or so every day. Some people pick a drawer or a closet to focus on until they get it sorted out. You have to figure out what works for you and what will keep you going. I just seem to go on binges, where I just go through my house and get rid of all kinds of stuff. That lasts for a few days or a few weeks and then I'll be ok for a while lol. Once you establish some kind of order and give everything a home, it gets easier to maintain it.
I use to be a bit of a pack rat, keeping all kinds of stuff "just in case". Guess what, not once have I really needed anything that I've gotten rid of. I did go looking for a pair of white capri pants one time and realized I'd given them away. It was ok, I'd only worn them a couple of times becasue they weren't all that flattering anyway, so I did right getting rid of them.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Oct 23, 2013 19:34:18 GMT -5
I'm not sorry to say YES IT DOES! Same here! People always ask me if I moved in to the model. But I don't work any more so I have the time and desire to live like this. If I had kids (and when I was a step parent) all I asked is that they shut their door to their rooms if they like the "just bombed" look. The rest of the house had to be back in order after they were done entertaining their friends, etc. Being anal has it's perks!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 19:39:31 GMT -5
Yeah, the BEFORE picture. I have my excuses. We still have quite a few boxes around because we are in the process of systematically renovating each room. Most of the art is still in boxes because one of my last steps is going to be patching nearly 1000 holes from the prior tenant and repainting most of the rest of the upstairs. Monday is demo of the master bath and closet area then as soon that's done we do the hall bath and put in hardwood floors in the three upstairs bedrooms. Hopefully we will have most of this completed by the end of the year. I'm soooooooo sick at looking at stained carpet and dirty walls!
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Post by Cookies Galore on Oct 23, 2013 20:01:42 GMT -5
Sure! Better Homes Are Over There
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Oct 23, 2013 20:17:59 GMT -5
Yes, my house looks like it belongs in " Lived-In Home Magazine," so the answer is a definite YES !
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Post by zibazinski on Oct 23, 2013 20:31:43 GMT -5
Sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 20:47:57 GMT -5
Nah, too much construction, not enough decoration. I have a great tool array though! Bins, racks, stacks and clusters, all neatly organized indoors for easy access. The sum total of our normal decorations is a wall calendar near the desk though Neither of us have the decorating genes.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Oct 23, 2013 21:13:55 GMT -5
I am a bit ocd and the house is usually pretty clean/ orderly/ clutter free. I am childless and my dh is pretty well trained. ;-) now if I could just get the dog to not leave his toys everywhere...
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Post by taz157 on Oct 23, 2013 21:29:33 GMT -5
No, not definitely a magazine house. We are in the midst of a reno of a house we purchased 2 months ago. Need I say more?
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Oct 23, 2013 21:38:25 GMT -5
Definately no. DH is a borderline hoarder and won't give anything away. I've been slooooowwwwlllly getting rid of some of the things I think he won't notice, but there's still a ton of stuff. It's mostly clean, but just way too much clutter which drives me batty.
We've even got two non-running cars (one in the garage and one in the driveway), plus all their associated parts and manuals in the garage that DH keeps saying he's going to get rid of. Then there's the furniture he inherited that he says he's going to refurbish (not!) as well as every T-shirt he's ever owned, all his Navy stuff (he retired over 20 years ago)...shall I go on?
Before we met, my house was clean and uncluttered. Not so much anymore.
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Post by thyme4change on Oct 23, 2013 21:53:45 GMT -5
Certain rooms look almost magazine worthy for about 3-4 hours per week. Those are the hours between when my cleaning lady leaves and we get home from school/work, so the cats just admire the beauty and marvel at my fabulous style. And then...everyone comes home and the house is normal again.
I will say that I don't leave a lot of crap sitting around, and I try to keep our stuff in good repair and somewhat current, so when it does get cleaned to perfection, it is nice.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Oct 23, 2013 22:14:11 GMT -5
I am a ruthless purger. DH is a packrat. Hopefully we help balance each other out.
My rule for purging items: If I have not seen it in 6+ months, and Walmart carries it for less than $10, out it goes. I obviously don't need it hanging around. And I have found that I tend to get creative and find something else I already have and use frequently to somehow substitute. Or put in the elbow-grease to get the job done. Or whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2013 22:58:23 GMT -5
Yes, definitely yes and it is a major PITA but it makes my wife happy so I play alone.
It also helps that we are 3 adults, 2 with OCD/cleaning tendencies. The only thing my wife and I have in common when it comes to design/decorating is we hate clutter and favor clean lines, open space.
My wife tends to pack things away neatly while I just want to throw them away if we are not using them, we tend to compromise and moving often helps with purging.
I dread owning a home for that purpose, seems things just tend to multiply when you own a home and you get ride of less and less stuff if any. 90% of those shows where the owners state:we've outgrown this house and they show you around; it is mostly crap that they have gathered and never bothered to organize or get ride off.
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Post by Opti on Oct 23, 2013 23:50:33 GMT -5
No. It probably never will. I strive though to be at the point where I have space for everything. Right now I am still slowly whittling down what have that fit in a 3 bedroom house with a basement and garage to fitting in a one bedroom apartment with a small kitchen and a basement storage area(small!) that tends to flood .
When I was in that house things looked fairly OK most of the time because I had lots of space and could hide things in the spare bedroom if I absolutely had to. Things look a lot less cluttered if the space is big enough and pretty cluttery when the new space is say half the size...
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Post by Opti on Oct 23, 2013 23:54:05 GMT -5
FWIW, most of my places have looked like engineer's houses and I'm OK with that. My last house actually looked probably the best as I had gone from a one bedroom apartment to house so I had room and vacuuming was probably the easiest I had of all the places I lived in NJ.
I wonder if other people are like myself and don't like people with magazine perfect homes to visit them?
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Post by Opti on Oct 23, 2013 23:57:18 GMT -5
"I dread owning a home for that purpose, seems things just tend to multiply when you own a home and you get ride of less and less stuff if any. 90% of those shows where the owners state:we've outgrown this house and they show you around; it is mostly crap that they have gathered and never bothered to organize or get ride off.
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Carl given you and your wife's personalities that probably won't happen and isn't a given. When I've shopped for homes in N,J I was often shocked at how people stuffed their garages and basements. I never did. (Of course the longest I had a house was 7 years, but its not my style and not how I was brought up.)
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Oct 24, 2013 0:02:14 GMT -5
Yes, definitely yes and it is a major PITA but it makes my wife happy so I play alone. It also helps that we are 3 adults, 2 with OCD/cleaning tendencies. The only thing my wife and I have in common when it comes to design/decorating is we hate clutter and favor clean lines, open space. My wife tends to pack things away neatly while I just want to throw them away if we are not using them, we tend to compromise and moving often helps with purging. I dread owning a home for that purpose, seems things just tend to multiply when you own a home and you get ride of less and less stuff if any. 90% of those shows where the owners state:we've outgrown this house and they show you around; it is mostly crap that they have gathered and never bothered to organize or get ride off. You probably won't have to worry about that until the pitter patter of little feet join you.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 24, 2013 0:11:05 GMT -5
Sigh. I spent several minutes typing a response, and it disappeared. Basically, I agree with those who say it really just fits with our personalities to have a clean house. We also prefer to have the house decorated as that makes us feel comfortable and enjoy being at home. So, my house does, with a few caveats: - Since my youngest child is 11yo, I don't have to deal with baby/toddler/little kid mess. However, I don't make my kids keep perfect bedrooms. We do deep clean their bedrooms once per month, and I ask them to straighten them every evening, but I'm not Machiavellian about it. There is at least one day per week they neglect to straighten up their bathroom before they leave for school. That, I generally let my annoyance show.
- I'm not great at making decisions about decorating. So, we are about halfway to an acutal magazine look decor-wise.
- I do like a clean house. We are comfortable living in it. It doesn't mean it's white-glove clean every moment; it just means that we do what we need to do and clean up during the process or immediately afterwards. I find it considerably easier (since my youngest child was about 7yo) to keep my house clean than it is to clean it after letting it go.
I do have pictures I could post, but I realized they have people in them. I don't have time tonight to take and upload pictures. Maybe later!
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Post by Opti on Oct 24, 2013 0:17:23 GMT -5
True POM. Neat and small children usually don't belong in the same sentence.
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Post by cronewitch on Oct 24, 2013 1:25:51 GMT -5
Next year it will look better. ISO is closing on his house this week so will start taking stuff to his new house. As soon as he takes from the garage anything I don't want will go there, then first nice day of spring yard sale, charity pickup and run until it is all gone. He will take the guest room furniture and I will get rid of a lot of other things too including most of my clothing. I retire in January and won't want most of my clothes. I will keep favorites but other things I kept for variety I don't really like are going. I will only keep about a two week supply of clothing so toss the rest. Once decluttered I will have the floors sanded and walls will be painted and kitchen and baths scrubbed. Looking forward to owning much less stuff, clean house. When I am tired of it I will sell it and move to ISO's house. While selling it I might stay at his house so mine stays clean all the time.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Oct 24, 2013 1:34:14 GMT -5
Ours does in the sense that the common areas are free of clutter. Painted walls, some art, matching furniture, bare floors. No shelves of knick knacks, no unkempt book cases, no stuff on the end tables or coffee table, no family pictures or portraits anywhere. Well, a globe on one end table, but that's like decorative. However, we don't scrub the baseboards often, and only vacuum/dust once in a while so on any given day there will be dog hair on the wood floors, and dust bunnies or spider webs in the corners and crevices.
Our bedrooms are another matter entirely. Ours and the kids.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Oct 24, 2013 3:04:57 GMT -5
I'd call my place borderline "Magazine" show-worthy. I'm a bit OCD about organization and neatness - so my home is clutter-free, no crap lying around or accumulated, and everything in its place. It's not so "sterile" or perfect that you'd be afraid to sit down or touch anything - but I wouldn't be afraid to open my door if someone popped by for a visit unexpectedly. I can't stand stuff lying around, cluttering tables or floors or not put away. Even when doing laundry, I'll fold and put away a clean load right out of the dryer while the next load is running. I can't stand having things just lying around if there's a place for them.
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Post by mamasita99 on Oct 24, 2013 5:14:35 GMT -5
I'd say my home looks like a magazine's house... I'm a bit of a minimalist, so I just don't like a lot of "stuff". I don't even like storing stuff in the attic or shed. That makes cleaning easy. And it's fun to set up a room when there's not lots of stuff to deal with. Mostly, though, my wife is OCD and if there's a mess she takes care of it right then and there. A bit much for me, and in the beginning we had our arguments about messes. But I have 2 kids and a dog and there is always going to be a bit of "activity" going on in a house. I told her I don't want to live in a museum, just a calm, open home. We've found a point in the middle that we can all live with, so I get to enjoy a calm, clean home without actually having to do it all myself
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Post by resolution on Oct 24, 2013 6:34:21 GMT -5
My kitchen looks a lot like a magazine in the 1960's, although the crock-pot came out in the 1970's so that part is wrong.
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Post by Malarky on Oct 24, 2013 6:56:30 GMT -5
We absolutely nailed the "lived in" look. We might make a magazine if Sports Illustrated was interested in photos of sports bags and shoes and letterman jackets. We have those on display on the mudroom floor. Every couple of weeks I achieve the "everything in it's place" thing. Then cleaning day is over and we go back to work/practice/games/socializing. DS's room does look like a hotel room. When he left for college we emptied it, painted and only put back the bed and desk and a few decorative accents. I haven't even put the bureau back. I like to just stand in the door way and admire. It's amazing how clean a bedroom can look if there aren't any clothes in it.
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