Roach

What is the deal with roaches? Why do they insist crawling their nasty little feet over my flatware? I've dealt with this for too long, really. I even find roach crap in my silverware drawer. What. the. heck? Is there imaginary food stuck to the forks that is so tasty? Is the dish soap residue really edible (of which there is none)? Why not go for the cat food or the trash can?

On a completely different note, while I sit here I overheard someone in the room say "you don't understand, I CAN'T just throw items out!" My question to them is.....why not? Now here we go, lets take a look and share opinions on compulsive hoarding. Go ahead, click the link and read the Wikipedia on it. Sad thing is that most of the people afflicted with this have no clue they have a problem. They will watch their neighbors or TV shows involving other hoarders and go "wow, that is a serious problem. Glad that isn't me." When, in fact, they are a few more pieces of hoarded furniture or a couple stacks of junk mail away for being EXACTLY like those people.

I will admit, I used to hoard. I know first hand what it's like to deal with such a thing. Until I discovered FlyLady.net, I was horrible. I didn't even want to clean up grocery receipts from 4 years back because "the IRS might want them". So please, take a good look around you living space and decided if you really do need help and get it. I hope that lady I overheard gets some serious help.

Meanwhile, I am sitting in my very mildly cluttered home (my own mother-in-law does hoard junk-mail and it's bleeding into my house) and having to deal with my downstairs neighbors hoarding-related roach problem. Don't worry about my junk mail collecting at my home. I usually start shredding and tossing the stuff when she leaves. Funny, because to her is all 'important' yet she never notices that I throw it all away. HAHA!!