keep my apartment clean

I’m going to clean it right now… It was going pretty well for a while, but not so much the past month. Or two…

seems to be beyond me at present. I’ll keep working on that, and in the meantime, I’ll remove this goal. I might be moving soon-ish anyway… and when I do, I’ll be moving in with my boyfriend, which I know from experience creates a whole new cleaning dynamic to be negotiated. :)

through my “clean for 10 hours” goal. I’m starting to feel like I live in a relatively clean (though not perfect) apartment. There is one room which remains my nemesis – the bathroom! I hate cleaning the bathroom. At the moment, most of the rest of the apartment is pretty clean, so I don’t think I’ll be able to avoid directing my next cleaning session towards the bathroom.

Then, if I can consider my apartment “clean,” it’s just maintenance.

I’m still doing badly with this, but trying to give myself credit for what I AM doing: keeping up with the dishes and laundry (mostly).

Today I cleaned a bit in the bathroom – and had to put away some clutter that had accumulated. I’m still doing laundry and have some other stuff that MUST get done this evening – but vacuuming in here is becoming urgent.

I found a great quote today:
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.” (Simone de Beauvoir)

This is so true. It’s just torture! Things get a little bit better, then that boulder rolls down to the bottom of the hill again.

Some people have suggested that I hire someone to clean periodically. But I live in a small one-bedroom apartment – surely I can handle it!

• Vaccuum
• Dust my ceiling fans
• Clean my bathroom – all of it, always
• Dust (I did some of this the other day, but it seems like a constant battle here.)
• Clean my kitchen

Now that I’ve finished my 15-min per day decluttering project, I’ll move on to 15-min per day cleaning. Hopefully I’ll be able to get my apartment clean – and keep it that way! If I can keep it up for six weeks, I’ll mark this goal done.

My decluttering goal seems to be helping. Tomorrow, I want to do a big cleaning now that I’ve gotten rid of so much junk.

where to start??

I have to get my apartment clean. Today, I got rid of a lot of stuff that was cluttering the place up, cleaned the kitchen a bit, and dusted in the living room, but it is far from clean still.

my apartment has been clean for a week and a half… got to keep trucking on. THe laudrys building up so i need to do some tonight so it stays clean.