Nick Bare

I pick up, I throw away.

I don't like clutter.

I like when things have a place and once they are used, they're put back in that place.

I just like organized stuff.

Our home used to be the same way.

And we'd finish a day, Steph and I, before we had kids.

And

At night, we'd clean everything up and then next morning we would wake up and it looked like a brand new house.

No dishes in the sink, everything put away, counters cleaned, bags stored in closets, papers on the table, shuffled, organized, folded, put in drawers.

I like waking up to a clean, organized home.

I always have.

I've always kept my things in places clean and organized.

As our kids started getting older and they would make messes, I would find myself running around behind them, picking things up, putting them back.

And it was exhausting.

When my daughter was young, she'd get toys out, play with them, make a mess.

I'd pick them up,

Organize them, put them away.

And as I'm doing that, she's in the kitchen cabinets pulling Tupperware out.

And I found myself just running around, exhausting myself, picking things up for no reason because they were going to get pulled back out five minutes later.

My son right now, Nico, he's one and a half.