WHY is it so IMPOSSIBLE to keep a CLEAN room actually CLEAN for ONE day???!!!!!
How is this even possible?!
I cleaned my room so I could study in it yesterday..and now its a sty again. I don't get it! How does this even happen?
This room must be out to get me. Yep, thats gotta be it.

This room must be out to get me. Yep, thats gotta be it.
When I listened to "Delivered" on audio the other day (barely into it), I nearly had to pull over I was laughing so hard. It's talking about the characteristic of organizational problems of ADDers. It said, "ADD children organize by stuffing bookbags into closets. ADD adults organize by putting things into piles. The piles matastasize, until every available surface is covered." (my bold)

I called my husband and shared it with him. He grumbled, "You didn't need to share it, I live it," and proceeded to take this opportunity to give me grief about the piles of books I have covering all the shelves in our living room.

lol,,, isn't that what chairs are for? I even have my very own bunk bed and the top bunk is one of my piles. Course I have moved up from book bags in the closet to big black trash bags,,, more stuff fits inside at one time :P

i have a big old arm chair that I was thinking of getting rid of but then it occured to me - where would I put my clean laundry?? (and yes I do have a perfectly good closet for clothes)

haha thats where my clean laundry goes too. I have a dresser and a closet that works too:P

It's easy to keep a room clean. Just check into a motel once you've finished cleaning it!

I think it has to do with procrastination(spelling?) I put everything off.


"oh ill put that in the dishwasher after my show" 1 week later its still on the dining room table along with 2 more dishes, cups and soda cans.

When I walk in the house my keys jacket and shoes hit the floor and dont move until i need them again. Bills pile up on the kitchen table. Blankets are draped over the couch from the movie i was watching last night and the movie case is somewhere on the floor.

WHY is it so IMPOSSIBLE to keep a CLEAN room actually CLEAN for ONE day???!!!!!
How is this even possible?!
I cleaned my room so I could study in it yesterday..and now its a sty again. I don't get it! How does this even happen?
This room must be out to get me. Yep, thats gotta be it.

Well I can't give you the excuse it's the kids or the husband.

So it must be the room, I've had them myself, right now I have 2 kids a husband and 3 cats. You should see what my cats do !!!!

It's easy to keep a room clean. Just check into a motel once you've finished cleaning it!

Wow I like that idea :D

The mess is created faster than it can be cleaned.

I say this as I observe the pathway carved through my bedroom.
I try to get into the routine of 'If I see stuff on the floor, don't walk past, pick it up' Yeah right :rolleyes:

Things start getting clean when I can't find something, then things get a bit organized by default.

When I listened to "Delivered" on audio the other day (barely into it), I nearly had to pull over I was laughing so hard. It's talking about the characteristic of organizational problems of ADDers. It said, "ADD children organize by stuffing bookbags into closets. ADD adults organize by putting things into piles. The piles matastasize, until every available surface is covered." (my bold)

That part made me burst out laughing, too, although you're talking about "Delivered?" I think there's a nearly identical sentence in "Driven," which was the first ADD book I read.

I picked it up to convince myself that I do not, in fact, have ADD. Something I read on the internet put the idea in my head, and since I wanted to get my latest case of "psych-student disease" out of my head (I can't even count the number of things I've "diagnosed" myself with), I got Driven out of my library.

That was the first of many sentences that sounded like someone had been spying on me.

I just always tell people that it's because I'm a walking entropy effect

oh man I can't even tell you how many times i've cleaned something ..went out & came home to find it WORSE than it was before I cleaned! I took my son out yesterday to finish delivering his cub scout popcorn , get a haircut & pick out his b-day cake. when I got home the kitchen, living room & counter had all been cleaned (except for the neatly stacked piles) & the house smelled cleaned which means Dh actually cleaned & not just straighented up. This morning as I look around...the coffee table has crap all over it...video games...toys....salt & pepper shakers....the kitchen is still good but could be wiped down & the counter...well that's everyone's "drop off" zone. Oh & the laundry while it is at the time folded it has yet to be put away.....

I just always tell people that it's because I'm a walking entropy effect
Hope you don't mind if I steal that! :D

no prob. You have no idea how many times I've blamed my messiness on the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

For those like me who had an idea but weren't overly sure the dictionary version...makes this funnier than simply knowing what they are talking about here. Well in my opinion any way!!!!

en·tro·py [ éntrəpee ]


noun

Definitions:

1. measure of disorder: a measure of the disorder that exists in a system :eyebrow:


2. physics measure of unavailable energy: :rolleyes: a measure of the energy in a system or process that is unavailable to do work. In a reversible thermodynamic process, entropy is expressed as the heat absorbed or emitted divided by the absolute temperature.
Symbol S


3. communication measure of efficiency: a measure of the random errors noise occurring in the transmission of signals :p , and from this a measure of the efficiency of transmission systems


[Mid-19th century. < Greek en- "in" + tropē "change," after energy]


Think the file piles of books/papers and unknown discoveries between couch cushions/in frigs and sinks, could qualify many of our house keeping skills using all three of these meanings!!!!!!!

Tammy,

I like this definition the best: "The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity."

Entropy is a major component of chaos theory: "Systems tend to go from a state of order (low entropy) to a state of maximum disorder (high entropy)."

Love it!

I just always tell people that it's because I'm a walking entropy effect


May you go with disorder, Hyperion!


The three laws of thermodynamics:

1. You can't win (conservation of energy/matter);

2. You can't break even (entropy);

3. You can't get out of the game (can't attain absolute zero or a state completely lacking energy -- you can't? :o who sez).

I didn't realized this interpretation was from C.P. Snow.
http://www.physics.carleton.ca/~watson/410_notes/Thermodynamics/410_Kinetic_theory.html

This physical law that has direct application in the real world (my life???) and produces appropriate metaphors.

Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually. Jimi Hendrix

Let the cat out the the bag, and its going to require a lot of effort and energy, bribes and catnip to get that cat back in.

You sure can kill time, but you can't resurrect it.

All the Kings horses and all the Kings men could't put Humpty . . .


Carefully organize your clothing, books, shoes, children, phonenumbers; without a considerable input of additional energy, these will tend to intermingle, disperse and go their merry way.

So, why bother?


Think the file piles of books/papers and unknown discoveries between couch cushions/in frigs and sinks, could qualify many of our house keeping skills using all three of these meanings!!


The symbol S as in Stanzen.

We ADD folk, we go with disorder, everyone else wouldn't understand.

Instead of the force, its the farce.

Instead of the right, its the riot.

There ought to be a special hand sign for this. Wiggling fingers of randomness.


Our New World Teacher Of the Wholly Chaotic . . . Pigpen!

Stan: 'You sure can kill time, but you can't resurrect it.'

That was one of my favorite scenes in Alice in Wonderland- when they 'killed time' by smashing teh clock to smithereens.


My friend's place is totally adorable !! He kept saying- 'Ok..let me clean up this room...'..
But you know what ? All I saw was the teeny teeny tricycles that his kids rode on....their squeals of laughter still echoing in the house..
Puppy squeaky toys....picture frames on table tops, mantles...and toys strewn about all over...
All of it kept me grinning !!!

If I go over someone's house that looks and feels like some hospital...and all I feel like doing is running out.
I mean it's ok if it's clean, but it's warm...as in feels nice to be inside of.

Most homes that I've encountered are:
warm and scattered
warm and chaotic
cold and antiseptic
cold and obsessively ordered

I try and stay away from the 'bottom' two, as much as possible.
They tend to make my stomach heave, literally, after I leave.
Guess they affect me, more than others, in that way.


Hey..how many others do you know, who get praise, for being a little
messy (0:
Revel !!


Nova

Our place is always in a constant state of chaos. Papers and materials all over my office, piles of stuff really. Clothes on the bedroom floor with an unmade bed a must. hehe. Week long collection of partially rinsed dishes in the sink, lol. I enjoy some order since I have OCD too, so everyonce and a while I'll put a match to my *** and clean the heck outta the place. Otherwise I like living in chaos!!!

i don't know but i wish it would all disappear the mess

The symbol S as in Stanzen.

We ADD folk, we go with disorder, everyone else wouldn't understand.

Instead of the force, its the farce.

Instead of the right, its the riot.

There ought to be a special hand sign for this. Wiggling fingers of randomness.


Our New World Teacher Of the Wholly Chaotic . . . Pigpen!


You are wayyyy to funny!!!!!!

Right now I'm thinking about doing the dishes, thinking about sweeping and mopping the floor.

Hey, at least I'm thinking.

I have a serious problem with boxes. I hate the piles, so I get moving boxes and put stuff in those instead...only they tend to end up in piles also! so every once in a while I find myself standing there in the hall wondering (usualy outloud to the dog) why I can actualy get into my bedroom... what bothers me is, where does it all come from? I will throw out boxes and boxes and boxes of junk, and 3 weeks later I cant get into my bedroom again because there are boxes in the way.

the dog of course, thinks this is very funny.