Comments on: Public Service Announcement: The FULL Monty Clarified

By: Chief

Chief — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:20:35 +0000

Awesome! I think we are soul sisters! I am so proud of your mess!

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By: celise

celise — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:07:02 +0000

Found this as a link from someone else’s blog, but just wanted to say thank you–I’m forwarding this to my husband so he can see that ours isn’t really the messiest house in the world! BTW, underneath all that mess, it looks like you have a truly lovely house. Love the paint job and you’re kitchen is GORGEOUS! (not to mention the fact that I truly envy anyone who actually has a dishwasher…)

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:22:22 +0000

I can no longer read here. Just kidding! I love that you posted this. You are incredibly brave. I can’t tell you how often my house looks like this.

By: Heather I

Heather I — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:59:02 +0000

I LOVED this post !! I feel sooo much better now that I know I’m not the only one that on occasion decides to read a book & say to heck with the cleaning !Maybe I’ll get up the nerve to do a “full monty” post of my own…I’ll let ya know.

By: Memarie Lane

Memarie Lane — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:05:33 +0000

your hair looks so cute, i almost want to go whack mine off again.

i spent three days at my sil’s house in el paso, and her house was trashed. it made me feel so much better about coming home to my own trashed house.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:18:23 +0000

You are SO funny! (and brave too) I’m considering posting my own pictures, but I’m not sure I want my mother-in-law to see it (although I know she’s seen my awful cupboards and probably suspects that I clean the rest of the house like a madman before she comes).

I’d like to believe that my house only looks like a disaster occasionally, but it looks like one now, and I think that every neat-freak friend of mine has “stopped-by” at a time that my house was a disaster (SO EMBARRASSING!). What that probably means is that I’m just a messy person, and everyone who cares already knows about it. In my defense though, kids can really make that mess in half a day if you aren’t keeping up.

Your morning picture, by the way, actually looks really good. Some people spend hours trying to get their hair to do that. I sat behind someone in church with that style a few weeks ago.

By: kikibibi

kikibibi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:58:15 +0000

I grew up in a free-for-all house – dishes in sink, trash never taken out, laundry on any available surface, beds never made, and it was great. My husband did not. He is what you might say “anal.” As in, if we’re fighting, it’s almost always because he’s TOO particular about where things go or how they should be… and it’s a lot of dang pressure on me to keep up! After 17 years of marriage, we have worked out this compromise: he cleans, picks up, makes beds, deals with the dog; cleaning ladies every 2 weeks do heavy lifting; I cook and do laundry. Which is kind of a scam because I actually make the kids do laundry, and I really like to cook. He will even follow behind me in the kitchen to clean while I’m cooking.
I have insisted on having “my space” where I don’t have to worry about cleaning up or organizing. The space is my closet, my dresser drawer, and my office (not in our home – in an actual office building). Seriously, he is not allowed to pressure me in anyway about cleaning up “my space.” The man, in an OCD frenzy, is not at all above actually organizing my closet/dresser, and in fact has even come over to my office and picked up/organized. I once found him sitting on the floor of my closet, surrounded by shoes, lining them up in neat little rows!
I love him dearly, but it’s really a sickness. I can see being in our 70s, still fighting about this, and it’s gonna drive me nuts!

By: Alisha

Alisha — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:41:05 +0000

I love it! My house is trashed right now, and usually, after working and commuting all day, I would feel guilty if I spent too much time cleaning and not enough time bonding with my daughter and husband. So, unless I have advance warning that an outsider will be viewing my abode, my house looks like it was hit by a tornado on the inside. I say to myself daily that I will spend the following weekend cleaning it up, but that goal gets pushed aside if ANYTHING else comes up, like watching trashy reality TV or going to the library. Or taking a nap. Cheers!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:52:20 +0000

Ditto what Beth said about a cleaning service. I have a couple who come once a fortnight, mainly to do floors, bathrooms, the loos, that kind of thing. Pretty much all of the mess/real family life that happened while Mom got a wee sleep-in, is stuff you have to clean up before the cleaning people can come. We end up hiding dirty pots in the dishwasher and oven so they can clean out the sink (as though the sink’s the dirtiest, worst thing to deal with). And they just work around the pile on the end of the kitchen bench and the pile of Christmas treat ingredients that I mentioned earlier and the dismantled Christmas tree on the floor of the living room (still trying to find a bay/box to store it in).

By: Steffj89

Steffj89 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:39:14 +0000

OMG….now seriously I just got done telling my 4 and 5 year old boys that not everyone lives in a house where it looks like lego exploded and little tykes spit up…..and thats just the parts i will admit to…my sink is full of all of todays dirty bottles…yes ALL i will wash them all first thing in the morning….
steff

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:03:42 +0000

Hey Jane — I saw your messy house, yup; know what else I saw?

HAPPY KIDS!

You go, girl!

By: the mama bird diaries

the mama bird diaries — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:01:05 +0000

You are very brave to post all those pics. BTW – you look great!

By: b.

b. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:34:44 +0000

*click*
(that was me subscribing…you’re funny!)
Anyone who has the guts to post those pictures (which look very familiar, by the way!) has my vote for AWESOME!
Not only that…but, I want your hair. Not in a weird way…but I totally want to cut mine that short. LOVE IT!

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:18:50 +0000

Okay, I must come to the defense of dear Jane (even though she didn’t ask me too) However, I DO have a cleaning service and my house STILL looks like this. You know why? Because a cleaning service does not put your clean clothes in drawers, put toys away, take down forts that have been played with, sort toys into proper containers, tidy up papers or sort your mail, and many don’t do dishes. They will mop my floor, dust my furniture and clean my toilets, but Lord above, they have to be able to see them first. So, a cleaning crew – as expensive or inexpensive as they are (I live in Dallas and pay $65 twice a month for 2,000 sq ft and that is considered a deal) you still are required to clean.

As my SIL says “we caught you living”. A house where people are living, loving, laughing and enjoying each other does not look like the Queen Mother is expected to arrive at any moment. And that, is all I have to say about that!

By: Sharla

Sharla — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:31:53 +0000

I’m back. I just got the email version and it was already revised. Believe me, it’s got to be okay to have a mess like that sometimes or else I can’t live with myself. I love Saturdays too because Eldon will get up with the kids and let me sleep in, even if he stayed up just as late as me. Last night when I was explaining to Eldon why I was laughing so hard he asked me if I thought we would be good friends if we lived closer. I told him I thought so but that you were probably too smart for me. No really, it would be cool but that’s what’s so cool about the technology we have, we’ve never met and yet I still consider you a friend. Pretty nifty if you ask me.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:58:47 +0000

Yep, just what I figured. The mess does not just double with each kid, it’s exponential. So I have a lot of cleaning coming up. I’d like to point out that the laundry in the chair was clean, so that’s okay. They had clean clothes to wear. See, I can justify my leaving hampers of clean kid clothes in the hallway for a few days or our clean clothes in the dryer just to keep fluffing them for 20 minutes to get rid of the wrinkles until I actually take ten minutes to put them away.
And darn it, sometimes we need to stay up late reading when our husband’s will be around to get up with the kids.
What worries me is justifying the mess that will happen this next week with the bloggy carnival starting tomorrow. Maybe I should actually clean on Sunday, something I normally avoid, as it is a day of rest.

By: D&J#1Phan

D&J#1Phan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:24:14 +0000

So THIS is how the other half lives.

By: Arya

Arya — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:23:29 +0000

My kitchen looked similar this morning…I think it’s just what happens when mommies get to sleep in.

PS I am going to have to check out hobby/snobby lobby for those cookie cutters you used as pancake shapes. I had never thought to use a cookie cutter in that way. THank you for the idea!

By: Michelle Glauser

Michelle Glauser — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:26:31 +0000

Do you know what? I think this is a reeeeal house. That’s just what happens when there are kids running around. I grew up in a house that was much messier than that, and though it drove me crazy at times, visiting people’s perfect houses made me feel like they were cheating somehow. I love your colors and interior design, btw.

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