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[quote=Anonymous]I absolutely love my nanny family.
I feel extremely lucky to have them in my life. It's been almost 2 years and things are going great.

There is ONE thing that I don't know how to deal with.
The house is an absolute mess. 
Every morning I have to clean counter messes so I have space to make breakfast/school lunches. 
When I leave in the evening, the kitchen is spotless. When I come in the morning, it looks like a tornado went through the house. MB is a single mom and there are two kids - 12 and 13. 
MB has a problem with online shopping (her own words) - we have boxes dropped off at the house nearly every day. The stuff she gets is just crap that nobody needs or extra crap that they already have but nobody can find it. If kids don't like the things she gets (or if they don't fit), they just stay home and get moved around with all the other stuff. Everything gets left wherever it's used - when new things are unpacked from boxes, all the little papers from the box end up right there - on the floor, stairs, table, wherever. Nothing gets returned, because MB never does it. I made a corner of one room where I put all the boxes and receipts with the things to be returned, but it's been almost two years and they're still there. Expensive things, like uggs, other shoes, hampers, toys..

It's so overwhelming.
I know I can't dictate MB what she can/can't do with her money, but I stuffed as much as I could wherever I could and the rest is still overflowing. And new things are added all the time. Nobody wants to get rid of anything, so everything that was ever bought/made, pretty much stays in the house.

I'm a very organized person, so I want to find a way for that mess to not bother me.
For example, I keep moving some of the stuff to one specific area, so we have room on the table to eat. 
It's stressful sometimes, especially in the morning when there is not an inch on the kitchen counters/island/table that is not covered with crap.
And that's after me leaving the kitchen spotless at 7 p.m. the night before.

I want to find a way for this to not bother me. I want to let go, but I don't know how. 
Nannies - how do you deal with messy houses? Do you clean it or work your way around it?

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