OCD finds an outlet in outdoor landscaping...complete with dogs, friends, family, and a few unwitting neighbors.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Organization and clutter
I am indeed addicted to the Home and Garden TV Show, Yard Crashers. I wish Ahmad would be at my local home improvement store, so i could say, "Sure, I will take you home"! Then, he could add a huge water feature, a party-sized hot tub, and extend my outdoor living space-)... In the mean time, i can do what i can in my own yard, my families', and the yards of my neighbors!
I think i will put my posts together under topics, or if you know me well, could be random thoughts...
this topic is organization and clutter.... i walk our neighborhoods and observe the neighbors' yards. If a trash can should be moved, i find myself, just moving it!..over to the side, where it doesn't block a window or walk. If a pot is too small or too large in one spot, i make a mental note where i would place it because i think the flower pot placement may be too personal to move. One area i just trespass and take care of it without asking is trash and weeds. If there is trash lying around, broken branches hanging, old broken pots stacked, recycle bins upside down...then i just fix them all. When i am walking our corgis, they expect the sudden stops while i bend over to collect my new treasures and stuff them in the trashcan! I know it is trespassing, but soon i don't even feel anxious about helping myself. Bird bath in the wrong place, gnomes lying on their side, tools sitting out..i just move them to where i think they belong... it goes without saying that all plastic, trash, litter, papers, cans, do not escape the recycling. I do put it in their owner's bins-) No one has ever complained....and i do think the yards look better instantly!!
As for weeds, i think that should be an entire post unto itself! stay tuned!
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I wish you lived close to me, I would let you organize me until my yard was nice & smart!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate! how did you find this blog? it is a first for me, and it is kind of cool that someone read it....
ReplyDeleteI would come and help-)
Kristen