Organising your husband

I’m almost ashamed to admit that I found an email from a reader deep, DEEP in my drafts. We’re talking MONTHS ago.
J, if you’re still reading, my deepest apologies.

I have two BIG organising challenges:

The first is my husband. He thinks I am just obsessed with living in a neat, tidy, clean and organised house. I HATE having stuff laying around everywhere, whereas he doesn’t care. It is creating real division between us. I have tried talking to him about it in the past but we just end up having an argument.

The second is my garage. I almost cannot get through the door. Not only is the ground floor of the garage FULL to the brim, but we also boarded out the roof area so we have two floors and that is full to the brim too…..where do I start when I can’t even get in the door!

I’ve blogged about organising your spouse and family before. I don’t have anything new to say so please have a click and read these posts – they’re good :)

How to organise your spouse

Organising your spouse and kids

As for organising the garage, I would do the following:

  1. Get a couple of friends to come over for a Pizza and Organising party so that you have some help and motivation.
  2. Move EVERYTHING out of the garage onto your front lawn.
  3. Have clearly labelled areas – donate, trash, sell on ebay, keep, etc.
  4. Then start processing a section of the garage at a time, moving things into their designated areas.
  5. Be ruthless with getting rid of things. You know the rules – if you haven’t used it for a year, you probably won’t. Let it go.
  6. It will look TERRIBLE in the beginning stages – it always seems worse just before you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel

All the best to you and happy organising!

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Do you and your spouse have the same organising style?

How do you deal with the differences?

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3 Responses to “Organising your husband”

  1. Becca @ My Perception of Life says:
    February 12, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    We are opposites! I love to be organized and clean; he loves to throw his clothes on the floor beside the hamper instead of lifting the lid. Two things have helped him improve alot in our 3 1/2 years together:

    1. If he leaves things lying around, the “disappear” at least temporarily. I put items away, sometimes purposefully where he won’t look, and he finally got the hint that if he wants to be able to find things, he should put them away himself so that he knows where to look next time! I know it sounds harsh, but desperate times call for desperate measures ;)

    2. I make it a point to let him see me working around the house, or have a drastic difference in something like the number of clothes he has hung when he returns to work, etc. When I make sure he notices, he appreciates all the work I do and makes an effort to help me keep things clean.

  2. Brandy says:
    February 16, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    looks like youve been spammed. for the garage I would drag or roll my outside trashcan and recycling in or to the door and be ruthless. I could be a hoarder because I do love my items but knowing that theyre going to another home (via donation) makes me feel better. We have charitys in the area that call and say when theyre in the area or you can call them, (ARC and AmVets) and they come by. They stopped by here 7 times between October and December 2009. also recycling feels good too.
    And everyone should remember that all you have will have to be gone thru others (burdening them) once you pass on.

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