Let’s face it, the less mess you have, the less stress you have. Well, perhaps that isn’t true for everyone. My children have friends whose families don’t seem to care too much about the state of their home. But I think for the most part, we are much more relaxed and happy when the house is in order.
Sometimes I can walk into a room and instantly feel stressed. There is a pile of dishes in the sink, the floor is sticky, the counters haven’t been wiped off, the George Forman was left out and no one bothered to clean it before the grease stuck on…I could go on. This is a picture of what can sometimes happen when I am out of my house for just a couple of hours.
Then I sometimes have those moments where I just blow…how could anyone not see the mess? How could anyone in this house walk right past it?
It can drive me crazy. But despite my belief that a less messy home means a less stressy mom (yes, I made that word up), I am also learning that it’s not worth getting worked up about. My children are still learning and sometimes they really don’t see those messes because they are so fixated on well, their cell phones or their television or their friends.
I know that I can get pretty uptight about things. I can see something just slightly out of place and I have to fix it. Or I can see one tiny crumb left behind on the counter and I have to get it. I am learning to relax a bit and accept the fact that sometimes you just have to let things go.
Let them go until later. Let them go until someone else can clean it up. Let them go until I have someone to help.
Yes, less mess does mean less stress…but in the end it doesn’t help to make too big of a deal out of things. Relationships can’t always wait but your house can.
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