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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 kids and 2 dogs.  It takes a lot of daily clean up.  We have a housecleaner every week and hired a professional organizer to get the pantry, laundry room, mudroom and closets set up with a good system I could continue. I get stressed if the house is messy so it’s a lot of effort on my part - you just have to decide if it’s worth it to you or not.  [/quote]

OP here - thats the thing though, its totally worth it to me!  In general my house is clean. We have bi-weekly cleaners, the pantry, garage, fridge, closets are all organized and we have a good system. Its just the small random things that sit around that drives me nuts.  The mail that needs to be sorted, the Amazon return that needs to go to UPS store, the kids art work that came home from school, a random rubber band from one of the kids that got left on the counter, etc.  It just all adds up and to me it makes the house messy.  My husband is thankfully also a neat freak but we just don't have enough time in the day to keep everything as clean and organized as we would prefer.

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OP I mean this sincerely as someone who is a lot like you: This is something you need to work out in your own head. Life is way too short to be obsessing about random rubber bands on the counter.

Some people have pristine homes, but they are using a lot of time and/or resources to keep their space that way. And why? To impress others? Because they feel anxiety otherwise? These are not good things.[/quote]

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