If you're like me, you tend to over-think, over-complicate, and over-do; making life difficult, relationships strained and tensions running high...when your GOAL was to unify, connect and relax. I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out the secret to a more relaxed and happily organized home...not only for myself, but for my family.
After much reading and researching I have found it all boils down to one thing - KISS (you know, keep it simple silly). Salt and pepper. The simpler the idea, the easier it is to implement and it will become habit with less work and headache.
As a girl, I truly struggled with organization. My bedroom was atrocious. I would spend ALL day cleaning it, putting my clothes away and reorganizing. The trouble for me, however, was I over-thought (and put-off) things that needed to be done. One fine summer morning I awoke ready to take on the world. I decided that I truly wanted to keep my closet organized so I put all my clothes in order from tank tops to long sleeved shirts to pants and then shorts. I then put them in order of color. After that, I decided that if I wanted to truly be organized I needed to log them all in a folder. As I took them out I would catalog them so I would know "at a glance" what I had available to wear that day. Well...after all that work, the "system" was abandoned like a soggy banana after a few days. It was too complicated, required too many steps and I ended up feeling discouraged.
Discouraged was how I started my marriage with my high school sweetheart as well. I adored him, but I was overwhelmed with my new responsibilities of keeping a house, going to college full-time, working 30 hours a week and somehow being a wife. I crumbled under the pressure I had put onto myself. In high school...sports, clubs and outside interests kept me out of the house. I never learned/retained the art of laundry, keeping house, etc, and at the time was happy to keep it that way. I was in over my head, and with my tendency to over-complicate, I was a wreck.
However, my dear husband saw me through it. Once we finally settled down into the house we now call home, I started researching organization and keeping house. Guess what the repeating theme was: keep it simple and uncomplicated. Today, that is my anthem! I certainly have not "arrived" and my home is a work in process. However, I want to share hope to those, who like me, tend to over-complicate or feel the need to reinvent the wheel. We can do it, so let's get cookin'!
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