I am utterly mystified by the weird physics within the walls of my humble abode. I wash dishes, I launder clothing, I pick up toys, I vacuum, I spend an inordinate amount of time clearing the debris and cleaning up.
And yet, every night the house reverts to the same disheveled condition.
I give up. They’ll find me, suffocated under a pile of newspapers in twenty years. At least by then the kids will be gone. Right?
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They’ll be back in the form of grandchildren.
I recycled what seemed to be at least 50 lbs of paper the kids had brought home form their school year.
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Hey! You were peeking into our house, weren’t you????
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My husband (proud geek) says it’s entropy. I had to look it up.
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Those same weird physics are at work here, too.
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seriously. Sometimes I wonder why I even try, but then I think about what it would be like if I stopped and more than a couple of day worth of laundry and dishes piled up. Scary!
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What I can’t get over is where all the “sticky” comes from. I stick to everything I touch. No matter how much I mop or wipe up, the sticky eludes me.
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hahahahaha
yes we have funky physics here too.
Also, my carpet sweats cheerios, and there are toys everywhere except the toybox.
Also, my kids seem to generate inordinately large amounts of laundry. Unusual for kids that must wear the same spiderman t-shirt for 17 days in a row. I guess my house just defies the rules of nature. And logic. and peace and quiet.
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Gremlins! The same gremlins that come to my house each night…must have relatives that visit you!
Wish they’d be obsessive compulsive gremlins and would clean while they visit!
Diane
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I just figure losing my memory won’t affect me too much when I get old because the same old jobs will just be so ingrained that I’ll just keep on doing them over and over and over and….
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I am SO in touch with that emotion.
It is only 11:30 here and I have already cleaned up 3 times.
Piles everywhere….tents, toys, clothes. I just can’t imagine that they are really playing with everything they take out!
(sigh)
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Amen
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Don’t count on it. My oldest moved out on her own, then became very ill and had to move back in with us because of financial issues. She’s still working her way out of the hole 4 years later. Luckily for us she isn’t a free-loader like so many return-to-the-nesters seem to be, ha!
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Those same physics exist here, too…….sigh
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I remember feeling the same way. It’s like laundry and dust reproduced while I slept. Then my kids grew up and married. The only thing they left home is the pets.
Enjoy the moments in-between all that cleaning. Cleaning can wait but kids grow up much too fast.
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I agree with you. I’ve completely given up on the idea of a spotless house until my children are grown. These little tidal waves can write the house off faster than I can clean it. I tried and tried to keep up – but it’s nothing short of impossible…
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I’m a meanie. I make the gremlins clean up after themselves. And I’m so successful at it that at 9 pm I went in to kiss kids goodnight, and one of the 8 year olds was lying on a his bare mattress covered with only one blanket, and we won’t even speak of the mess in the corners of the room, and I went to get him a sheet at which time I discovered a destroyed linen closet and came even more unglued so I tossed him a sheet and forced myself to walk. away. telling myself it could wait till morning because my husband despises it when I embark on a grand bedroom cleaning at 9 pm and I always feel bad when I yell at kids at betime anyway.
Yup. Darned gremlins…
Mary
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While I don’t know how you feel in volume, I do look forward in life and say, man, I have a lot of cleaning left to do in my life! Ugh!!!
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