How To Own Your Garbage Mom Status.
Kids these days are using words like "extra", "basic", and "garbage" to describe their overall style as a person. Extra is described as the overachievers, the moms who wear matching outfits with their kids, change their baby's clothes as soon as it gets a stain and are always posting their kid's Pinterest parties on instagram. Basic moms start out with daily clean clothes on themselves and their babies, but they keep wearing them until the day is over because who has time for that many wardrobe changes and that much laundry. Basic moms take pictures of their kids doing everyday things. Parties are not Pinterest worthy, but they are fun. Finally, the Garbage mom. The mom who wears the same pair of stained sweatpants until it is laundry day and let's her baby wear the same shirt for three days straight regardless of stains. This mom is also the one who not only can't remember when she last showered but also when her baby last had a bath. The mom who leaves crumbs on the floor and whose specialty birthday cake is known as the "big green lump" cake.
Although most fluctuate among all three of these levels of momming, we all have that level that we tend to naturally hover around.
Garbage moms tend to get a bad wrap and usually it's at the hands of other moms. I am here to tell you. There is nothing wrong with being a garbage mom. Are your kids fed? Do they have a roof over their head? Do they get the love and attention they need from you? If the answer is yes than you do you and bring on the garbage.
I will admit to you that when I got home from work I pulled a pair of pants out of the dirty clothes hamper to change into, and although an hour ago I planned on taking a shower after the kids got to bed, now I'm not so sure it's gonna happen. I happen to wash my babies face before bed today but she is still wearing the shirt that got gravy, and frosting, and chocolate milk, etc on it from the day, and I might not change it tomorrow.
The important thing to realize is that garbage moms feed their kids, love their kids, try to give their kids their 100% as much as possible. All that extra energy though has to come from somewhere. Mine energy stores come from the laundry reserves and fom the getting dressed reserves.
If you are an extra or a basic mom but want to awaken your inner garbage mom, here are a few tricks of the trade:
1. Have two sets of clothes on hand.
Your home clothes that are stained to high heaven and have been worn tons of times, and your going out clothes that have fewer stains and have been worn maybe only 3 or 4 times. Change into you "nicer clothes" before you go out and take them off when you get back home so they don't get anymore food on them when you feed your toddler.
2. Dry Shampoo.
For those times when you really should shower but just don't have the energy or the time, dry shampoo can easily buy you 2-3 extra days between hair washes. Plus, when paired with a bun, it can give you a fresh new look. Nobody will suspect a thing. Don't have dry shampoo? Put your big fluffy "blush brush" to use (don't pretend like you ever actually put on blush) and brush some baking soda into your roots then flip your hair upside down and shake it out.
3. Body Spray
Spray it in the hood of your sweatshirt, in the armpits of your shirt, the crotch area of your pants and in the ends of your hair. Keep in mind that body spray can only go so far so use your best judgement on when a shower is really the only answer to your garbage.
4. Walk Tall
Own your garbage and be proud of yourselves for keeping your kids alive and fed. Don't worry about that other mom who got dressed in skinny jeans and high heels to go to walmart. Just think of how her feet must be hurting and be glad that your feet are tucked comfortably into slippers. Plus, think of how much extra sleep you got because you slept in the clothes you are wearing; what a time saver not having to get dressed in the morning.
Don't let other moms dictate how you live and how you raise your kids. You be as garbage as you want if it keeps you sane and your kids happy. Forget about it like I plan on doing with that shower I was gonna take an hour ago. And don't worry.
On the scale of extra, basic, or garbage where do you think you fall most of the time?
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