I know, I know I'm supposed to write a tip or trick about something that DOES work. Well I'm sorry I just felt it was time to address this huge problem I'm having.

Motivation!  I just realized the other day that I love the <strong>planning</strong> not the <strong>doing</strong>. The big issue is that I love to buy or collect things that I  THINK will motivate me to do the thing I don't want to do.

Here are a few examples -- (please do not try this at home)

<strong>Cleaning that House</strong>:

Bought a new broom, mop, bucket, cleaners, dust clothes, pretty thing to hold dish soap, new kitchen towels, bins and boxes for organizing (actually this one usually works), etc, etc, etc!  I'll be standing in the cleaning supplies aisle thinking "our broom is really not doing a great job (<em>prob. because I don't pick it up nearly enough!</em>) or "Oh that bucket looks like it would work better for moping" or "maybe a Swiffer will make cleaning easier and faster (<em>not if you leave it in the closet and never take it out!)</em>

<strong>Saving Money:</strong>

I've created and re-created our budget dozens of times over the last 2 months and followed it for maybe a month! Instead of using a simple coupon organizer I ran out and bought everything to make the lovely coupon binder that has sat for a month unused! (I did use in daily for over 5 months saving us tons of money). Instead of using simple and cheap paper envelopes for our <a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/index.cfm?intContentID=3461">Envelope System</a> I bought some fancy plastic organizer thingie!

<strong>Gardening:</strong>

This one wasn't too bad: I bought some cute gardening gloves (which by the way I rarely use! I'd rather just get in there with my bare hands) These are the things that I wanted to buy but I restrained myself: cute garden clogs, a gardening hat, cute little garden tools for Peanut to use, and a garden bench. Can anyone else figure out that I was shopping at Target! They really do have cute gardening stuff and I didn't even mention the cute Gnomes or Toadstools for decorating the garden!

<strong>I won't even get into discussing sewing and crafts!</strong> Maybe next time!
<h2><strong>I've come to a conculsion -</strong></h2>
<em>I spend way too much time <strong>planning </strong>and to little time <strong>doing</strong>!</em>

This might explain my frustrations with homemaking. Don't get me wrong I really do love homemaking, I love that it shows my love for my hubby and care for my family. I just feel a bit overwhelmed and now I know what part of the problem is.

Does anyone else do this?? Am I alone here?? I hope not, and I don't think I am! I think we live in world that throws ideas at us, standards at us, and worst of all, cute products at us to get us off course and break the bank!

So what can a girl do?  Stop going to Target!?!?  nope... I'm going to start by turning off the computer, filling up that new bucket and breaking in the new mop! Then I'll go from there!