keep my home clean

Good thing we are having a party on Saturday! It will be cleaner by then, come hell or high water!

3 loads laundry
Declutter living room/dining room
Sweep living room/dining room
Kitchen deep clean!
Fridge inside
Microwave inside
Mop kitchen floor
Bathroom
Little bathroom
Declutter bedrooms
File office papers
Wash doors

All by Saturday morning!

I’ve been taking baby steps towards keeping my home cleaner.
The master bedroom is a wreck, as always, and the eventual child two’s room houses a plethora of clutter, but I’ve been trying to keep the living room reasonably clear, and the bathroom/kitchen sanitary.

It’s not great, but it’s better. Baby steps.

doing fairly well with at least keeping the place picked up and laudry done. Tables dusted and dishes done. downfall for me is the Bathroom however

checkin out flylady.net right now….

our fourth roommate announced that she’s moving out next month. she hasn’t been here for two weeks so i took it upon myself to completely clean the bathroom and kitchen. and it looks good!

i feel kind of bad but at the same time, i can’t wait for her to move out. her room was supposed to be my space, but i gave it up because she needed a place to stay. i’m finally going to get it back, and just in time because i really need an art studio for upcoming projects.

the bedroom is still a mess, though. boyfriend still hasn’t learned what dresser drawers are for.

Mother in law is coming to pick up Emma from after-school care, and then bringing her back to the house to make her dinner until I come back home from my late meeting.

So of course, I had to pick up around the house last night as much as possible, sweep the living room floor, and wipe down the kitchen and bathroom before I went for work. God forbid that woman come into my house in it’s natural state, after she had the nerve to comment poorly on my housekeeping. (She’s right, admittedly, but who is she to complain about it?!?)

The one thing I really didn’t have time to do last night or before I went to work this morning was to empty the dishwasher and re-load it. So there is a sink full of dirty dishes. Bite it, woman.

Since we had friends over on Sunday, we did a great deal of cleaning on Saturday. Frogette helped me, and we thoroughly sanitized the kitchen and bathroom. I even cleaned the microwave and refridgerator insides! Of course, now it’s getting dirty again, but that’s the way it goes…

Obviously I have not been very successful at this goal since my apartment required a deep clean. Today I washed all the floors, vacuumed, did laundry, and washed the windows. Even if I never exactly become perfect at this, it’s good for me to have this goal. It keeps me accountable.

that really resonated with me. Keeping clean, the author said, is all a matter of “finishing the cycle”. For example, you make yourself a sandwich, you eat it, and then you must clean up the plate to finish the cycle.

I am trying to finish the cycle, rather than putting off cleaning for another day, as much as possible now.

I have not been keeping the house clean lately, but I have at least forced myself to do one quick but necessary thing in the morning before I leave for work for the last 3 days. Today it was wiping the area of the floor that had boot tracks on it, yesterday it was emptying and filling the dishwasher, and the day before that it was scrubbing the tub.

So the house is still a mess, but at least I am making some sort of effort.