apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

For the next therapy session, I recommend having the first entry of the week be on Sunday night rather than Monday night. Much more motivating!

And I recommend that, boring as they probably seem to old-timers, the discussion questions (at least the early ones in the week) be on more basic, fundamental issues.

Instead of a regular group and a green group, you might have a deep-clean group and a one-room group with additional discussion areas for each room (including a room called "other," so there's a place for bunny rooms and other creative rooms). And include green ideas in all groups.

I didn't feel like we were helping each other as much this time as I've seen happening on earlier cures. So anything that could encourage us to do that better sounds good to me.

oh my god, that was my "before"??

my wish for the next cure is: more support in the last two weeks. that was when it got really hard. the "set your table, have a party" posts during the last week were too similar and thus a bit, erm, boring. i would love to receive some more detailed advice or motivation like during the beginning of the cure. but:

thank you, AT.

GrainSmather and In Everything, thank you for the feedback! This is exactly what we like to hear. Great suggestions that we'll definitely take into account.!

yes, think that there should be a separate one room cure, that is what I've done twice now. I don't have a complex about it, but for the people who are able to do a complete textbook whole cure, it doesn't seem fair to them.
I have always gotten more done than my one room, but if I was them doing the whole thing on schedule, I might resent me.
The reason I only commit to one room is trying to check and gauge the reality of what I can accomplish at that time. I would love to do a whole cure by the book, and give a lot of credit to the people that can & do.

Amen to GrainSmasher! It's more fun when there are more comments and conversations. Thanks, AT!

I can't say I've run out of steam, but I'm still a good bit off from being done. I think I'm looking at more of a 12-week cure this time!

I don't think it's necessary to cut the cure down to 4 weeks, but starting it earlier would probably be helpful. This can be such a busy time of year for people, I wouldn't be surprised if many dropped off to catch up with other seasonal demands.

I definitely agree with suggestions for more discussion opportunities. I know that managing a full-fledged forum system is probably beyond the scope of what you want to do with this site, but calling a non-threaded comment section on a blog page a "discussion group" is kind of over-selling it. (Either that, or I've completely missed something here....)

I frequently had questions I would have loved to pose to other curees at large (and did submit one "Good Question"), but I didn't feel like there was a good place to do it in any kind of organized way. a Posted comment might not be seen, and there's no mechanism for me to see if anyone else has commented back, aside from finding the page again and checking for new comments.

I do appreciate all of your posts, ideas, and pictures, though, and I'm glad I've found AT! Thank you!

I agree with VeryThorough. I kept looking for the "discussion groups" or whatever they were called until I finally realized that it was just the comments to the geographically applicable post. If that would have been a little more clear, I think I would have enjoyed it more and that there might have been more participation.

I agree with a little more support in the last two weeks, but I also am grateful for you giving us this weekend to finish everything up. We had some life bumps and bruises get in the way, and with this weekend, we were able to finish everything up. It was a good way to get back to life as normal with all we've had going on, and it felt good to center back in on our home.

I will say that although we only hung some curtains in the living room, some blinds in the kitchen and a photo wall in the foyer, the changes in the apartment have been a lot to take in over the past day! I usually adapt well to change, but it's been interesting to me to see my response to feeling like it's a different/new home.