If I may be crass for a moment.....I promise no cursing involved.
It is nice to have other appreciate our work. I am a mother of 4 with a large house and husband and animals. I do flylady as well and I enjoy life. I started HGP last year because of one of the girls on the sheforums and i loved it. Where ever I go, be it here or sheforums or a few other boards I go to every now and again I always find that others enjoy HGP and the time that has gone into it. Some change it up to suite their needs, some like me do it exactly the way it shows there. Some things I dont get done but I absolutely do the cooking and just this past spring finished what was left in my freezer. I do a lot of holiday cookies from scratch and because of HGP i had them done this past xmas.
I don't have a maid, I don't have a nanny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I grew up in a neighborhood that was poor/middle class or making ends meet. Most lived hand to mouth. I live NOW in an area that down the street are expensive houses and richer neighborhoods to the right of them but 20 blocks from them is a poor area. We live in farm area where the farmers are a dying breed. I am from city parts but I am a true country girl. I have seen bikers to excecutives and let me tell you, the ones that say "oh why would you be so anal about starting stuff for xmas soooooo early are the ones that have the money to go anywhere anytime they want to go shopping OR have someone do it for them" have enough money to buy what ever it is at full price and not care one bit, have their maid or nanny go shopping for them while the wife sits there doing nothing except bickering to the neighbor next to her at the salon while they get their nails done for the 3rd time that week. OR like someone already said...those are the people that freak out december 1st saying Oh my God what was I thinking."
I had one person say to me "are you crazy? why in the hell (their word not mine) would you start xmas planning August 31st" "you are out of your mind"....
I tell people that I wasn't getting xmas stuff started on August 31st. I WAS getting my house cleaned in a timely fashion before the holidays come and by december I will have no worries...What are your plans ? THey walk away from me after I say that and then ask what are your plans.
I have no time for people who can not open their eyes and just say oh wow that's great that you do something like that. It isn't for me but kudos to you. If people are complaining about it then they have too much time on their hands and aren't very nice people.
I will say this as I have said in the sheforums.....HGP has given me serenity and I enjoy that!!! Between my plans and my control journal my house is "most of the time, remember I have kids" is a wonderful thing to me.
Ok i'moff my soap box and not ranting about the baahumbugs out there anymore.
Hugs to all
It is nice to have other appreciate our work. I am a mother of 4 with a large house and husband and animals. I do flylady as well and I enjoy life. I started HGP last year because of one of the girls on the sheforums and i loved it. Where ever I go, be it here or sheforums or a few other boards I go to every now and again I always find that others enjoy HGP and the time that has gone into it. Some change it up to suite their needs, some like me do it exactly the way it shows there. Some things I dont get done but I absolutely do the cooking and just this past spring finished what was left in my freezer. I do a lot of holiday cookies from scratch and because of HGP i had them done this past xmas.
I don't have a maid, I don't have a nanny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I grew up in a neighborhood that was poor/middle class or making ends meet. Most lived hand to mouth. I live NOW in an area that down the street are expensive houses and richer neighborhoods to the right of them but 20 blocks from them is a poor area. We live in farm area where the farmers are a dying breed. I am from city parts but I am a true country girl. I have seen bikers to excecutives and let me tell you, the ones that say "oh why would you be so anal about starting stuff for xmas soooooo early are the ones that have the money to go anywhere anytime they want to go shopping OR have someone do it for them" have enough money to buy what ever it is at full price and not care one bit, have their maid or nanny go shopping for them while the wife sits there doing nothing except bickering to the neighbor next to her at the salon while they get their nails done for the 3rd time that week. OR like someone already said...those are the people that freak out december 1st saying Oh my God what was I thinking."
I had one person say to me "are you crazy? why in the hell (their word not mine) would you start xmas planning August 31st" "you are out of your mind"....
I tell people that I wasn't getting xmas stuff started on August 31st. I WAS getting my house cleaned in a timely fashion before the holidays come and by december I will have no worries...What are your plans ? THey walk away from me after I say that and then ask what are your plans.
I have no time for people who can not open their eyes and just say oh wow that's great that you do something like that. It isn't for me but kudos to you. If people are complaining about it then they have too much time on their hands and aren't very nice people.
I will say this as I have said in the sheforums.....HGP has given me serenity and I enjoy that!!! Between my plans and my control journal my house is "most of the time, remember I have kids" is a wonderful thing to me.
Ok i'moff my soap box and not ranting about the baahumbugs out there anymore.
Hugs to all