This thread has just made me feel so much better about everything - the piles, the things leaning against each other etc.

The thing is - even with the clutter I know where everything is. It is only when my husband starts 'tidying up' that things go missing. I wouldn't mind if he put things away and could remember where they went, but he has this ability to move them to odd places, and not rememeber ever having SEEN said item, let alone moving it, and putting it... somewhere. He is 6 feet 4 to my 5 feet 3 and has a tendency to put things 'up' and in odd places. (For example, my kilt went missing for over a year, and turned up FOLDED (??? who would ever fold a kilt - think or the ironing!) in the chilly bin (cooler, thing you put beer etc in for a picnic?).

My mother is a fanatical cleaner. Her house is spotless and she will put away a glass as 'messy' while I am turning to the fridge to get the milk to pour in said clean glass... She gave me a sign to put up - "DON'T PUT IT DOWN, PUT IT AWAY!". I hate it. She has no music in her, and thinks it 'frivolous'. She cannot see WHY I need 2 guitars, 3 clarinets, 2 violins, a flute, a piccolo, assorted tin whistles, various percussion necessities, and a piano...
My grandmother, a person after my own heart gave me another sign that says:
"Although my house is quite a mess, come in, relax, converse. It isn't always quite like this... sometimes it's even worse!"

Yup, that one is me *grin*
Allie
who hopes she did the html stuff right...