Bassetluv
Well-Known Member
So, are you a teenager with a messy or clean room? If your an adult, did you have a messy room as a teen, and has it improved now your older?
Shuffles up to microphone, thumps it twice to make sure it's working, then blushes and stammers a reply...
"Ummm....hi....my name is Di, and I'm a messoholic."
My room, when I was a teen, was so messy that I swear, even the dog was so embarrassed that he wanted to clean it up. I had things shoved under the bed, thrown on top of it, dresser piled to the rafters with both clean and dirty laundry. My version of cleaning my room meant picking up everything in one fell swoop and stuffing it all into my already filled closet...then throwing my weight against the door in an attempt to get it to shut. Has it improved? I do have to say yes. And no. It depends. I do go through periods where I suddenly get this urge to clean up everything, and then go through periods where everything just gets piled in a room. Or dishes get left undone. Laundry sits in baskets on the floor. Not sure why I'm like that; and oddly, my astrological sign is Virgo, the one that is notorious for producing 'neat freaks' and ultra-fastidious persons. Maybe it just had to do with psychological stuff I went through as a kid, and I never outgrew it. I dunno. But I do know that when I was married (oh, a century or two ago), I wasn't messy at all. We both pitched in and did equal amounts of housework, and I never had that 'messy' side of me emerging.
I do have to laugh though, because my dad used to say to me, when I was a teen, "I'd hate to see your house when you grow up...it'll probaby look like the inside of a barn". Well, one day when I came home from work I went to the rabbits' room and opened the door, and either Yofi or Anna had had a hayday (literally), and hay was spread from one end of the carpet to the other. And all I could hear was my dad's words echoing in my head.
Dang...he was right...