Ugh, I hate laundry. I'll wear the same thing two days in a row if I'm cleaning and not going out.

For some reason, I'm much better at cleaning other people's houses than I am at my own. Every time I stay with my grandparents, I help them with some cleaning chore that needs doing - cleaning out the attic, scrubbing down all the spots on the kitchen they didn't notice were dirty, sorting through and organizing all their computer files, etc. At my boyfriends', I'm always folding his laundry, washing his dishes, cleaning the counters, etc. But at home? fuuuuck thaaaat. [lol] I don't know, I just get so overwhelmed at home. My house is pretty old and not in great shape, and my mom is kind of messy, so it's just more than I can handle. If I was starting fresh with my own little apartment, I could probably do it... But this house feels like a lost cause to me.

I feel you there. Now that I've gotten everything clean there's this sudden burden to keep it clean, like it's so hard to put things away![cry]

One of the best ways I've found to keep things tidy is to just put things away as you go. Once I get home from work or college, I know I'll be dead to the world as soon as I sit down, so I don't let myself sit down until I've spent a couple minutes putting things away. I hang my coat up, put my shoes where they belong, hang my purse up/put my backpack away, take anything out of them that needs dealing with, put my phone on my desk, and maybe take care of a couple extra little things while I'm at it (like throwing out soda cans on my desk, putting dirty cups in the sink, etc.). That alone is really good at stemming the tide of mess. Once I've done that, I can just crash for a while and have a tidier area to do it in, too.

Wow, that's quite the accomplishment! Surely there's a merit badge for that...