keep my apartment clean for 2 weeks

Have you ever used a chair as your closet? I have. It’s not that I don’t have a normal closet. I just don’t know how to use it, apparently.

Clothes just mysteriously pile up on this one papasan chair in the bedroom. Clothes I try on and decide not to wear, clothes I pulled out of the dresser in order to find other clothes I probably didn’t wear, new clothes I haven’t worn, jeans I’ll re-wear, jackets, sweatshirts… it’s amazing how many things can fit in this thing – which I consistently use as the substitute closet.

Then it gets worse because I have to dig through this gigantic bowl of clothing to find other wrinkled clothing I may or may not have tossed in. It’s becoming a black hole.

Step one of getting the apartment to the point where I can keep it clean for 2 weeks… hang everything back up!

Yesterday I put all the clothes back where they belong – in the real closet and dresser. Now I just have to remind myself to put everything back, and not leave laundry in the basket.

I know this is a poor excuse, but I’ve been extra busy this weekend… so of course, I haven’t had a chance to clean yet.

Next weekend (memorial day), hopefully I’ll get a chance to do some thorough cleaning.

Then I’ll start counting the days it stays clean, and figuring out some routines to keep it that way.

I’m starting small. Whenever I clean my apartment it seems like one week later, it’s messy again. I don’t know how this happens. I guess we just live in it too much. I need to start developing some cleaning habits. That way I won’t end up with these marathon cleaning sessions every two weeks.

As for my goal… one week is too short, one month is too long. All I’m going to try right now is keep my apartment clean for two weeks.

After that, I can set longer goals. Maybe one day it will even be clean all the time!