There's not a thing out of place in my house. I'm not OCD, just organised. The shed is a different thing though. It's fairly tidy but not house tidy. I could take a pic and show you but I daren't - I'd lose my street cred. The plant pot and tray corner, behind the laurel hedge that hides the fence, is an utter disgrace.
@Oldcompost - that's what my potting shed looks right now, but only because I've finished planting everything out for the summer and had a proper good once-a year tidy up. I agree, it feels good and frees up loads of space. But for most lf the year, pots everywhere !
Sheps: Well done on your tidy greenhouse. In the photo that beehive is a permanent home for my hoover (and its lead).
B3: Tidying to a logical place is essential, my other half spends ages looking for where she put her secateurs and glasses down.
REMF33: Patiently winding up hundreds of xmas tree lights back onto the card never worked for me so I just scoop them up hoping the inevitable tangling won't be too bad next year (but they still do!)
B3: Earphone wires need to hang to unwind to stop the looping.
Fire: Sheds tend to fill up with old stuff that's not thrown away because they 'might come in useful one day' but never are.
borgadr: Continual washing and stacking is necessary because there are so many stages of 'potting on' done especially between March and June.
I try not to operate in the “it will be useful one day” basis. Our local groups lend tools and swap what we don’t need, so it’s very much easier these days to give a neighbour half my shed stuff or borrow a tool - so I don’t need to buy it. A virtual “library of things”. Most of my garden stuff is given by someone else.
I do take the groups’ old compost bags for re-use. They always get used, but it is a problem to know where and how to store them. I built a collection of 80 last year - gave them to a guy on our allotment. Then, sure enough, we needed them all and had none. 🙄
I do blame full time employment and a big garden that takes up all my non-resting time in the summer for my lack of tidy house. (But my desk at work is the same, and my husband is very messy, so I am doomed, really...)
You have no idea just how comforting to my soul are the previous "untidy gardeners" notes. I am an incurable hoarder of things that might be useful. I have just gone through a heart-wrenching session of sorting out belongings, mainly books, which were finally delivered after 15 years in storage. Most things had been replaced years ago so were surplus to requirements, I shared them out between charity shops willing to come and collect. The shed/workshop is still full, I had a massive turnout of plastic flowerpots at the beginning of the year, only to find myself short when I needed some for potting on, and so it goes on. I am always putting things away safe, never to be found again. I try to stack pots in sizes, and always intend to wash before storing but something else more important seems to come along. I have found that when I go into an immaculately tidy house, note not home, I always feel uncomfortable. Superficially I love the minimalist look but know I would not be happy living in it. I obviously need the comfort of having my belongings around me, as it seems from the previous posting, so do a lot of other people. So I am not alone in my disorderly existence. It is not purely laziness, it is being happy and comfortable in one's own environment. Each of us has to find our own level of disorderliness and be content.
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Time to resurrect this thread perhaps? I tell myself I'm too busy to be tidy...
But for most lf the year, pots everywhere !
B3: Tidying to a logical place is essential, my other half spends ages looking for where she put her secateurs and glasses down.
REMF33: Patiently winding up hundreds of xmas tree lights back onto the card never worked for me so I just scoop them up hoping the inevitable tangling won't be too bad next year (but they still do!)
B3: Earphone wires need to hang to unwind to stop the looping.
Fire: Sheds tend to fill up with old stuff that's not thrown away because they 'might come in useful one day' but never are.
borgadr: Continual washing and stacking is necessary because there are so many stages of 'potting on' done especially between March and June.
@Uff could I borrow you for my house?!
I am an incurable hoarder of things that might be useful.
I have just gone through a heart-wrenching session of sorting out belongings, mainly books, which were finally delivered after 15 years in storage. Most things had been replaced years ago so were surplus to requirements, I shared them out between charity shops willing to come and collect. The shed/workshop is still full, I had a massive turnout of plastic flowerpots at the beginning of the year, only to find myself short when I needed some for potting on, and so it goes on. I am always putting things away safe, never to be found again. I try to stack pots in sizes, and always intend to wash before storing but something else more important seems to come along.
I have found that when I go into an immaculately tidy house, note not home, I always feel uncomfortable. Superficially I love the minimalist look but know I would not be happy living in it. I obviously need the comfort of having my belongings around me, as it seems from the previous posting, so do a lot of other people.
So I am not alone in my disorderly existence.
It is not purely laziness, it is being happy and comfortable in one's own environment. Each of us has to find our own level of disorderliness and be content.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”