I've never been a neat person at home. Organized, yes, I am that. I'm organized in the cupboards, closets, and drawers. But there's never enough space for the things that are NOT inside these organized things. It's kinda funny, actually -- the comparison between my ex-sister and me (I dumped her recently, but not for this reason). Her house is a model home to view when you go in there. But inside the closets, drawers, etc, it's disorganized. When she was young I visited her. In the apartment she'd have things in the kitchen cupboard from rubber bands and single (out of box) light bulbs, to boxed cereals and canned foods, to things like gift wrap papers -- stuff unrelated to other stuff in there -- not neatly stacked. In her hold age her kitchen is very well organized. But other rooms in the house are a mess. Oh, well to her, but my problem which I wonder if anyone else has, is that little pieces of paper, items I need to take back to the store, users manuals for new stuff....all over the living room. The bedroom,kitchen, and bath are fine, but obviously the LR is where I live and it's driving me wacko. Anyone else this way? What do you do? I can't make a decision on one piece of paper in a disorganized pile, OR I find a piece of paper that it interesting and, say if it's an article, I read the whole thimg. Maybe write a letter to editor about it. Or maybe it's something about the music I play, and I need to type out a whole chord chart for it. Meanwhile, the piles grow taller. I bought a stack of 5 horizontal file racks. That has helped. My music "tools" like metronome, tuner, rubber stamps...are on top. That's good because now they are not buried in a pile. One of the shelves is for music related papers. So now I can find what I need. The others are "Do: Action Needed." "Miscellaneous;" and "File." Those papers stay in there and never get out of the slot. So the desk is a mess and causes stress. The walls are fine to look at in my LR. Nice pictures, original art by people I know, and also some of mine. Below the pictures, the room is chaotic and I can't rest my eyes anywhere. I get zingy wherever my eyes go to.

I can say that I have the same problem with the living room. Manuals, magazines (which I know I can get a rack for), articles, notes that I made, slips that I have to keep in case something goes wrong with the item that I bought, recipes people give me to try out, payslips, newspapers. I also bought a file drawer (which is in the spare bedroom) to file everything and once in a while I get the courage to file it. I would say don't be sentimental. So I don't really have any advice just saying I have the same problem and it also irritates me.

[scatterbrained04]

I also get majorly stressed out when my house is disorganized. I used to have everything put away in a place and my house clean. However, I have son who has more toys than what will fit in his room and they are everywhere! I spend so much time dealing with the toys that I now have paperwork and things of mine that have never gotten put away. Majorly stresses me out. I get severe anxiety about people coming to my house because of it. I want to fix it but there just isn't enough hours in the day. It's like my grandpa always said, "A clean ship is a happy ship."

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[hopeless2015]

Yes I get this. I have talked to my therapist about this, she suggested working for 15 minutes at a time, I still haven't done it. I'm not sure what it will take to get me started working on this

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[wildflowerchild25]

I live with my mom and she is a bit of a hoarder so there is stuff everywhere. I hate it but I just try to organize the best I can and leave her stuff to her. And of course I have my five year old son leaving his toys everywhere. I hate toys like Legos and anything with a million small pieces. I told him if I find Legos on the floor they're getting swept up and going in the trash so he's pretty good about that.

I get such bad anxiety when I go to my sister in laws apartment because they are very messy and it's usually in shambles. My house was horrific growing up and it was always a source of embarrassment for me so now messy houses really bother me.

[Unrigged64072835]

It's hard having to keep up a house with four people in it, especially when three of them leave messes wherever they go. It does cause me stress, but I can't afford to go hypomanic trying to keep up after them. I just live with it now.