Maintain a clean, organized, orderly living space and life.

I’m doing so much better at this. Not quite there yet, but the new place is really helping me stay on top of my life!

I’m moving into a new place. This is my big chance to get it together!

I organized a lot of papers and random things I had sitting around in paper bags. One pile for “Things to Keep”, one pile for “Recycling”, and one pile for “Garbage”. It felt so refreshing, and I’m beginning to take stock of what needs to be done next, until my apartment is organized and functioning smoothly.

I lost my planner for one week! Then I found it!

It was horrible!!

Mondays: clean living room
Tuesdays: clean bedroom
Wednesdays: clean bathroom
Thursdays: clean kitchen
Fridays: sort paper build-up

....and, I am very sorry to say that I haven’t been following it. :(

I have, however, been more organized with my calendar commitments.

Portable calendar/planner.

Writing in a cleaning schedule in said planner.

my personal challenge for March!

my whole damn apartment before I left for my vacation.

I got back today. I can tell it’s not perfect, but it’s a good baseline cleanliness level.

Let’s see if I can keep it around this level from now on…

I’ve always had a hard time motivating myself to keep things tidy.

Will someone please remind me why this is important, and what to tell myself instead of putting it off?

I’m really bad at this.

Still, it is not impossible. I think that I just need to find a good reason to do it. Otherwise I’m not motivated. I have a tolerance for mess that is beyond that of most other people, but putting off frequent bouts of light cleaning makes for an egregious amount of work to “tidy up” when I prepare for visitors.

The pathetic truth of the matter is that I’m better at keeping my living space clean when I know other people will see it.