Why is it that pictures other people take of me usually make me want to do a combination of weeping and throwing up, but pictures I take of myself I can sometimes stand?
And also, why is it that when you put the camera above you and shoot down you look skinnier?
That must be why MacGyver thinks I'm good looking. (At first I had "hot" but then I thought of all the people who might read this and decided to tone it down.)
Anyway, this has absolutely nothing to do with my topic. We need a new picture.
That's more like it. And I'll say it again - this is why no one should EVER buy bean bag chairs.
Something occurred to me today. I was throwing out of my closet to bag all the dusty clothes in the back that haven't fit since Toddler came on the scene... (Yes, I realize that sentence was poorly constructed. And I realize I am a writer and that if I want to get myself an agent at some point I really should try harder to be grammatically pleasing to the mind, but I'm going to pull the old "Homeschooling mother of 4 under 7" and beg your pardon.) Anyway, I was pulling out everything that I laugh when I consider trying on, and I found my stash of present size fall/winter clothes. A week ago I was perusing my selection and found my cool weather options strangely lacking, which of course necessitated a trip to the mall.
Now, you are asking how I managed to lose clothes I wore not 6 months ago, but it's been a little longer. I haven't seen most of these clothes for a good two years due to pregnancy and all of it's accompaniments. So I guess I can be allowed a little credit, but still - I would save a lot of money if #1 - I wasn't a different size (postpartum, nursing, newly pregnant and really really pregnant) every time I turn around, and #2 - if I remembered where I put the present category's stash.
I like to say I'm organized, but the truth is I am not. I do spend a lot of time organizing, but everything seems to automatically revert to unorganized.
I am an unorganized person who would really really really love to be organized.
Any tips would be helpful. Not just for the clothes but for any facet of homemaking and homeschooling. And keeping things organized rather than just having to reorganize, if such a thing is even feasible.
Thank you and good night.
Let me know if you find out! I'm in desperate need of organization!!!!!!! I try, but fail miserably. :|
ReplyDeleteBy the way, that IS a good picture! (the one of you, not so much the one of the bean bag chair) ;)
ReplyDeletei'm even less organized than you, and with a much smaller house. yeah, it's bad.
ReplyDeleteand the pictures we take of ourselves are better b/c other people won't let us examine and delete the ones we don't like. it took about a dozen shots for me to get the one on my blog. i felt like such a teenage girl.
Hire a college student.
ReplyDeleteSomeone once told me the best way to get organized is throw it away or give it away!I would say this has helped, but things still dissappear. Like, the sock monster exists every where you go. We only had matching socks when we moved and now again the socks are missing matches. What is up with that?!
ReplyDeleteWow! I see so much of Hannah in that picture of you! You look very pretty, by the way. I really laughed when I read, "that must be why MacGyver thinks I'm good looking." I totally understand the issue of hating pictures that other people take of you. It seems to me that I look about 3x wider and at least 20lbs (sometimes 100lbs.) heavier in pictures than I do when I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I can't even believe it's me! Why is there such a difference in how I see myself when I'm putting on my makeup and how I look in a picture?
ReplyDeleteAbout the organizational issue, I'm not sure I can help. I love to be organized. I like a place for everything and everything in its place, but reality often intrudes, as do children(usually my children are the reality that intrudes), and my organization goes out the window. I can say that having a cabinet or two with doors that can be shut to keep homeschool things, craft materials, coloring books, etc. goes a long way to keeping things decluttered. And in my opinion, keeping clutter down goes a long way towards being organized (even if the cabinet looks like a bomb went off in it; as long as the door is closed no one will know). I look forward to the day when I can be as organized as I like and it will all stay where I put it. Of course, then I will moan and complain b/c I won't have my children around to mess it up :)
To Amy: I've defeated my local sock monster by initiating my socks-without-buddies program. After every wash any sock that has been unintentionally abandoned by it's partner gets hidden in the back of a dresser drawer #2 where my socks-without-buddies program resides. And then after three months or so, and after busy-ness prevents me from keeping up with laundry and I run out of official pairs of clean socks, I open drawer #2 and try to convince two nearly like socks to buddy up so we can all go out. They are usually pretty accommodating to each other, and I have no trouble with first-layer footwear miscegenation.
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D, I actually do kind of the same thing. Until I get completely tired of the huge pile of unpaired socks that generates with 6 people, that is, and then I toss the whole sorry lot in the trash.
ReplyDeleteMidwest Mama, I also have a locked cabinet that has art supplies in it. It did help to cut down on the mess for awhile, till everyone figured out how to open the lock, that is. That's what I get for marrying an engineer. They tend to pass those genes right on.
Joy, I don't understand how socks disappear. It doesn't make any sense, unless they really do somehow get stuck inside the washer and dryer? That doesn't seem as mysterious and magical. I don't like things that are just common sense.
Thank you for the comments! As always, it's good to know I'm not alone, especially with the picture thing.
Mandy, Kim A. uses this idea for her socks: Each of her 6 kids has their own small mesh laundry bag (like for delicates)that they place their socks in when taking them off. Then she throws the whole bag into the washer (without taking the socks out of the bag). She said it works wonderfully and has cut down on the headache of mismatched socks for 8 people! :) I know a few others who do this as well. :)
ReplyDeleteand I LOVE the picture! :)
Thank you for the idea, Amy, I'll file that in my very unorganized head of mom ideas and see about trying it!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for the encouragement. Just the fact that everyone keeps saying what a nice picture it is tells me how accurate (or should I say inaccurate...) it is. :)