Swistle mentioned a little while ago that it seems like only thin people tend to post photos of themselves. She’s right. I never post full length photos of myself anymore because I don’t think I’m thin and I don’t like how I look. Well, surprise! I do still have legs. Here’s an unflattering photo of myself that I’m sharing for no real reason.
You know what else I generally don’t show you? Pictures of how messy my house is. It’s very, very messy.
This isn’t the most representative photo, but it’s what I have available at the moment. Look quickly, and it’s a cute father/daughter picture. Look more closely, and you will see stuff hanging on the bannister and other stuff laying on the landing. You will notice that I did manage to use my husband to shield you from seeing a big mound of laundry that was behind him. Not that my house is a disaster area, but it’s not exactly a designer showcase all the time.
AWESOME.
I hate posting pics because I have zero idea how to smile for the camera. It’s funny, inspired by a post from last week I’m taking daily pics this week. But I don’t dress cute daily. Sone days, like today, are gym clothes all day. I’m including it in the weekly pics. I mean…it’s real life. I can’t dress cute daily just for the Internet. Anyway, your post made me think of it. Real life verses fashion blogging. I also can’t edit this comment, so ignore my typo. I need to be more careful with comments on your site since I can’t edit back.
Please – My clutter is messier than your clutter any day of the week. I just know.
OMG, Story City Carousel is just up the road from me – quite the tourist destination if you ask me!
Funny to see it on a random blog picture. And you look like a regular person, just like the rest of us who aren’t models or 16 anymore.
My dad is from McCallsburg, so we used to go visit the carousel when we went to visit my grandma. Of course, I had to take the kids. That carousel is the fastest carousel on Earth! It was crazy!
I hate, and have always hated, what I look like in photos. Not sure if it’s a childhood hang-up that never disappeared or what.
Oh, you mean you are a REAL family?!?
I have accepted that the laundry is stored on our fancy china hutch, that there will be Cheerios on our dining room oriental rugs for the next decade, and that dust is a member of our family, among a million other things!
I almost never post pictures of myself from the waist down.
There are two classes of pictures on my blog. I post mostly decor-related stuff, so I clean up the area I’m photographing (this generally entails flinging the mess behind me, out of view of the camera). It could take me upwards of 10 tries to get a good picture, too–I’ve often uploaded a pic only to find that I didn’t see the monster truck convention under the sofa, so I remove the trucks and take it again, and then notice you see a pile of boxes in the kitchen, and so on. The worst was when I posted a picture of our new living room rug, and it got featured by a big name blogger, and I had 20x the usual traffic I get in one day…and all I could see in the picture was the suitcases lined up against the wall that I hadn’t unpacked and the giant mess on my desk.
Then there’s candid pics of my kids, and if you look in the background the house is a mess. I think everyone’s house is a mess, you just don’t see it.
It’s ok about your house. I don’t have kids and my husband and I work regular 8-5 jobs and frequently we have piles of laundry around. in fact some of the piles are even clean, and we move them from bed, to living room chair for bed time. But my worst enemy is mail. I’ve got piles I need to tackle. Some in a basket, some on the kitchen table, some on the kitchen bar. I’m happy to know not everyone’s house is immaculate (real people!) and as long as my place doesn’t get anywhere near hoarders proportions, I’m good.
When there’s a cute baby and daddy photo, no one seems to look at the background. Also – on the thin people comment… can I challenge and say people who are comfortable and confident with their appearances post photos of themselves? Or do I get no say bc I’m technically thin and post pictures of myself? LOL (I am not being mean just funny…although now that I re read this it’s not so funny…I hope you laughed)
I did not take this as mean at all. Don’t worry!
I think you’re probably right that people who feel confident are more likely to post pictures, but I’d add that people who are thin are probably more likely to feel confident.
I don’t post pictures of myself because I’m afraid someone I know will see it and then know I’m talking about them online. Also, my thighs are kind of fat.
As someone who used to weigh 20 lbs (sometimes 30) more than I do now, I still hate pictures of myself. I basically hate my face. PPffttt. (that’s a fart noise)
Also? I am a SAHM and currently I have 4 baskets of folded clean laundry that need to be put away (I hate putting it away), I have an area of the counter top that I can never keep clean. Gavin’s room has become a “dump” room and it smells like poop since that’s where we change diapers. I say diapers because Luke is STILL not potty trained. We also have this huge great toy room downstairs but all the toys still get brought up to the main floor and are still spread out everywhere. Stepping on matchbox cars is like walking on clouds, right?
I choose to comment on this blog rather than pick them up!
I love both photos. You and your family are adorable.
One of the biggest perks for choosing to be anonymous is that I am PROHIBITED from posting photos of myself. But I don’t know if I would do so even if I were more open with my identity. It’s a hard thing to do, I think.