JFF - What Is the Messiest Room in Your House?

Every room is a disaster right now. It has never been so bad. There are extenuating circumstances, but it is awful.

I'm so glad you posted this, I feel much better now LOL .
Hands down its my room, I do have to say the kitchen is my pet peeve, it needs to be clean. But my room looks like a disaster, more like a tornado hit it. I honestly try but it seems like a never ending project..

The basement. My boys play hockey down there, the laundry room is down their too, along with all the other stuff that we don't have room upstairs for.

My daughter's (16) room. Really oughta just light a match. Geez. Every time the door bell rings I figure it's the health department here to shut 'er down.

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All of them. I am a horrible house keeper! I probably need an intervention.

Only one?
That's the wrong way to look at it in our house.
I have a few islands of tidy-ness amid oceans of chaos.
I'm with Ziggy - I probably need an intervention - but they'll have a hard time finding me in here!

Every room at this point, but our room is also the worst - clothes, gifts, papers, blankets. Looks like a bomb went off in there.

Our "spare" bedroom (it doesn't even have a bed in it anymore, now that DS is out of his crib). We've been in this house 5 years, and all the stuff I don't have anything to do with, but can't get rid of have been stuck in there. With #2 coming in April, I need to get a move on, as this is going to be his room but it's overwhelming. I walk in, look around, sigh, and walk back out.

right now - EVERY room - except the bathrooms!!

Why? because we just got new windows installed and everything is out of whack...blinds and drapes can't be put up for another 24 hours...

however, this has opened my eyes to the mess...urgh...and i got rid of a LOT of stuff...it's really liberating!! I've let my house go over the last 3 months and this house project has opened my eyes to it. I'm done! :) Normally, my house is pretty well-kept. I've had pockets of clutter...our den is the worst...my husband has become a hoarder in a small way...he sees it and is working on letting go of stuff...

I know you weren't looking for ways to combat the clutter...but here goes...

What would I do if I were you?
1. dirty laundry & ironing - take it all to the dry cleaners. Get it done and get it out of the way. I CANNOT stand an ironing board to up all the time especially in my bedroom!! Of course I wouldn't take underwear, socks and bras to the cleaners - but everything else? yes...or find a laundry mat that does the laundry for you - wash, dry fold and you pick it up.

2. paperwork? If you haven't filed it yet? it must not be important. Do you have a bill folder? If you have a scanner? I would scan all the important documents in and throw the paper out.

3. clothing being tossed? Girl - you need to stop doing that! you are creating your own headache!!! Get rid of clothes you haven't worn in six months, too big or too small.

4. dirty laundry on the floor? drives me insane. Do you have a basket to put dirty clothes in? IF so - why doesn't it make it there?

If you take an hour out of your day? It will be done faster than you know. If you close the door on it? It will take you MONTHS to catch up.

Our bedroom. In part because I picked up Kiddo's the other day to vacuum, and in part because it's Santa's Wrapping Room up there. Plus, I don't have a closet or dresser up there, so clothes get draped.... you get the picture. ;) Once the holidays are over, I have a date with that room!

My whole house since I started a sewing craft business. It used to be just the sewing room and a small spot in the kitchen. Hubby couldn't see me as I went down to my sewing room/cave. Well, I had to move a few things out to the dining table. Guess what? The nice tidy places filled up and now I have to move it all out to a storage unit or two after the holidays.

Oh yes, when I retire it will be with a nice workshop so I can go and come back and leave the mess there.

the other S.

PS Hubby has stuff all around as well with him building electronic parts for his amateur radios. Welcome to the world of crafters and tinkerers.

Depends on the day..and time of day.

But..right now I'd say our master bedroom. Right now it is so full of gifts, wrapping paper and laundry. But...I am getting off MP after this post so I can go tackle it. Thanks for the inspiration!!

Cut yourself some slack..you have a large blended family and a job. I have no excuse that compares to yours.

Utility room and the office. The rest of the house is clean and tidy.

My bedroom - it's the last place I clean!

The toy room is pretty bad. But that has to be tidied every now and then or they stop going in there to play at all.
"The purple room" is the worst- underneath it is a guest bedroom with pretty nice looking furnishing and linens, but it becomes the everything room. The room where we throw stuff in when tidying the rest of the house. Piles of the kids schoolwork, etc. It's usually also My craft room, or scrapbooking room, and all that stuff takes over. Right now it is Christmas and baby central- the bed is piled high with baby stuff that needs to be sorted and washed, and the floor is the Christmas wrap station. Maybe I'll dig out of it after Christmas. Good thing no guests ever come to sleep over!

My office. I work from home and we keep the kids backpacks/school stuff in there and it's turned into the household dumping ground. Misc papers, donation items, school paperwork, office supplies, school supplies, etc etc. My desk might have piles, but I know where everything is. It's organized chaos, lol. However, it is embarrassing, especially since it's the first room you see when you walk in the door.

It's followed closely by my 10 yo daughter's room. Always looks like a clothing store exploded in there.

Laundry room. It's very small and crowded - water heater, washer, dryer, shelf of laundry products, and four litter boxes.

Our bed room, but mostly certain areas in our bedroom, namely my craft/sewing desk area and his computer desk area. What a mess!

My office. I work from home and my desk and filing are in tip top shape because I am very anal when it comes to that.

BUT, my office is tucked back in a MIL suite type area downstairs so it also accumulates gift wrap, storage boxes, etc. I just close the door.

same! our master bedroom is by far the messiest b/c I have presents/boxes/wrapping paper/ribbon all over the place!!!

4 of us in 800 sq ft for the last 7 years. That's enough said about that.

Anyhoo, My whole house is messy 99% of the time. If someone leaves a sock in the living room, it looks messy. Our trailer is so small I hate it ;-[

My bedroom has a 2 foot wide closet for both mine and my husbands clothes, 2 chest of drawers and a nightstand and a queen size bed. It is 10 ft by 8 foot. There is 2 feet of space between the bed and the chests and thats it. There are clothes everywhere because I can't store them anywhere. It is very messy. Not dirty, but messy.

My God, I will be glad when I can earn some money and get out of this place.

I'm depressed just writing this.

Ugh. The Playroom. If I had a nickel for every lego I've stepped on. It's not ever, ever organized. But hey, we've got kids.

It used to be our living room, but we gave up the ghost and converted it for the kids' use. Funny, the toys don't seem to STAY in the playroom.

I'm tackling it right now for the influx of family we're about to have next week. Normally, I wouldn't be knocking myself out, but my mom-in-law has allergies and my niece is 12months and walking. I wouldn't want a little mini toy to be grabbed and swallowed.

the messiest room in our house is my hubbys office/man cave. Drives me nuts but it is his space so i just shut the door. lol
many blessings

The bedrooms are the cleanest part of the house. No one spends much time in their rooms which is pretty much why.
The downstairs is the messiest, mostly because that's where we spend the majority of our time. It is so hard to keep the downstairs clean. The layout of the downstairs and the smallness doesn't help and is why I call it a single room.

Mess and clutter stress me out. We're in the middle of moving to a much smaller place, and I've turfed so much stuff that once I had thought I needed in my life. Ah, the relief! But with Christmas and moving, our bedroom is a pigsty.

We have a large eat in kitchen, laundry room that is also the food pantry, living room, family room, dining room, office and bathroom on the first floor. They are all kept pretty decent except I pile things on the table next to my chair where I sit and on the kitchen island.

Upstairs we have 4 bedrooms and a tv room for the kids (largest bedroom besides the master), and a bathroom and our master bath. I have to say, pretty much the whole second floor is an unorganized mess. The kids rooms are "sort of" kept up. They make their beds and most of the time keep stuff off the floor. But they have a lot of stuff so its basically all over. We moved over the summer and we are in Chandler too so you know how freaking hot it is so I only unpacked the basics. Our 3 car garage is still FULL of boxes, as well as some boxes in our bedroom and closet that I can't seem to figure out what to do with. The floor plan is NOTHING like our old house so I'm having a hard time getting organized. At least that is my excuse. lol I figured I will hit all of it pretty hard after Christmas is over. I don't like all the stuff around and it feels good when things are downsized and organized. You.are.not.alone. lol

It's a tie: son's room (14) and waaaay toooo small laundry room/mudroom/entry way from garage. I close my eyes sometimes....

My kids bedrooms. The rest of the house stays clean. If they don't put it in their rooms asap. It could disappear.

well i would have to say my HOUSE in general. haaa. living room, kitchen, bathroom, both bedrooms, front yard, play house and back yard...all a mess.

bathroom and kitchen are cleaned for sanitary reasons of course. Living room vacuumed when its needed as i have a cat and a dog. No shoes allowed on in my house, so my carpet for the most place is spotless. Even with three kids running around daily and two pets! They get their paws wiped too.

My house is messy cause i frankly dont care. life is too short always worrying about a clean picked up house, when i rather be romping through the house with the kids and spending time with them. Plus my house for those who visit, never say its messy, haaaa. so i guess its not that bad as it seems to me.

but overall it would the garage right now....

I guess I have no excuse. I don't work and we only have 3 kids.
HA!
But my room is usually the messiest. For some reason that is the room everyone likes to hang out in, bring their toys in, take their shoes off in...and my husband can't put a dirty clothes in his hamper for nothin'!! ARGH!!

i have a "spare room" ........ LOL - all miscelanious stuff goes in there! not pretty!

Oh, my word, it has to be my boys' room. They share a room. We tried to separate them years ago, but they chose to be in the same room. They are only 13 months apart and are very close. They are both home from college, so they brought all their laundry, plus sports clothes, plus dressy clothes, plus casual clothes, plus jackets/coats for every conceivable weather, plus several pairs of shoes each, and all their toiletries and gadgets. It's a complete disaster, but I just ignore it since they will both be gone less than a week after new years day.

The office. I don't even go in there anymore. Two years of my husband being home did that room in. I'm not going through his stuff and he has trouble understanding that certain things simply don't need to be kept. Do the garage and basement count as rooms? He's messed those up pretty well, too.

Well I would have to say my office. It is the gathering place for stuff. It doesn't look too bad if I close the door to my armoire, I just need a file cabinet down here and I'd be set. And my kitchen is messy today because I am Christmas baking.

My husband and I each have an office of our own and they are both absolute total disaster zones. His is filled with books, boxes, random junk and there are so many papers that you cannot find a space to write on his desk. Mine has all kinds of junk for the kids - outgrown clothes that need to be sorted through, clothes that don't fit yet, extra books and toys - plus all of our bills and family paperwork. My books and plenty of my own junk is in there too. Both rooms are ridiculous.

Our playroom often gets pretty messy, but I've been taking away toys if they kids don't clean up, so it's been better lately. I just need to learn to set a better example!!

(sigh) the bonus room. it's kind of not even set up well, all the 'extras' went in there when we moved in a year ago. so for now, it has a computer desk with a desktop, chair, file cabinet near it, part of the downstairs couch, then it has a triple bed, then a wall to wall closet with 20 bins filled with toys, oh and a white dresser, and then some drums, and guitars and oh wish i could lock it forever.

I'd say it's a tie between my room and my daughters room lol! I am VERY clean. I make sure dishes are washed daily, floors are swept, trash is taken out, shoes are put away. Nothing is out of place. But, my room is a disaster! I have papers to file, my bed is never made, clothes are all over the floor lol. My daughter is really into crafts so I'm always finding paper scraps and glitter and beads and stuff all over the floor in her room. My son is pretty good about cleaning up after himself so that's good at least.

My office is in the loft and it is the junk room. Any piece of mail or receipt that come through the door, lands in here. If it is paper form, it heads up to the office. Further there is old software that I need to go through and get rid of, as well as, old music, notepads and just junk! Maybe I will ask for hippie beads to hide the mess.

I try to make it a point that I fill a trash can a week to toss out, obviously I missed a week here and there.

As for our room, my husband gets up and makes the bed and I stay up while everyone else is asleep to iron and put away the laundry. Now with the new dog in the house, I vacuum a lot more often.

It is hard to keep everything as clean as you would like when you go to work and then come home and jump into mom/wife mode. Oh well.

LOL! My office. I HATE paperwork.