A Place for Everything

Remember watching the Jetsons? I used to watch it every morning before going to school.

Remember the one episode when Rosie, the robot maid, went a little haywire and was running around saying "A place for everything and everything in its place"?

Well that's one of my main problems. Well two problems.

Problem Number One: I don't have a robot maid. I think my life would be A LOT easier if I had a robot maid that I could instruct to clean exactly like I want, every single day. So all I have to do it come home, cook dinner, and play with my husband and kids. If anyone needs me to test one out, I'll gladly use a protype.

Problem Number Two: Since I don't have a robot maid, most of the cleaning falls to me. Now to be honest, my sister in law comes down 1-2 days a week (which I pay her extra for) and she does what I call "reddin up". She does dishes, vacuums, a few loads of laundry and sometimes makes my bed. This isn't hard core cleaning, but she's cheap, and on the days she's there I feel a sense of relief.

However, I still run into a problem with "stuff". I think that's the reason she's good at "reddin up" is cuase she hides stuff. It can take me days to find certain dishes, or things I bought from the store.

Herein lies the problem. I don't have a place for everything I don't have a place for most of my stuff. So I just set it out on the counter, hoping that I will eventually find a place for it. But unless my SIL comes over, it will sit there for days, sometimes weeks, before I assign it a location. My cupboards are stuffed to the gills, I have NO storage. Well, I have a little storage, such as a back room that used to be a master bath that now holds baby clothes, baby toys and the like.

My greatest fear, however, is that once I do get a bigger place and storage - that I'll still leave things out.