clean my house

Vacuum stairs.

Dust and vacuum upstairs.

Dust and vacuum downstairs.

This is amazing. Since yesterday I’ve completely finished cleaning our bedroom, mostly finished cleaning the kitchen (I still have another load or two of dishes to do, but have to wait for the hot water to recharge and the dishes already in the drainer to dry), vacuumed the main room, set up my new altar, processed a few loads of laundry, and made a good start on cleaning my office.

I still have a fuckton of laundry to do, and vacuuming and possibly some spot-cleaning of the carpet in my office. Plus the entirety of the bathroom, and GODS above is it a mess. So that will likely take me most of the day. But I’m not touching the rest of the clutter in the main room, since most of it isn’t mine. Boyfriend can bloody well help me clean that stuff, or better yet, do it himself, since I’ve done him the courtesy of cleaning the entire rest of the house without his help.

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I did it! It was quite a lot of work, but it’s all nice and clean now. Almost half of the dust I apparently snorted, since I soiled five handkerchiefs today…

Aside from the dust, I got rid of the mess too (although some of it magically switched places with ‘free space’ elsewhere in the house, that’s a problem for another day ;)), and even managed to hang that painting.

It’s looking nice and cozy and inviting now (I sleep better when my bedroom is all neat and tidy)... which goes hand in hand with my ‘go to bed earlier’ Thing.

So… who’ll tuck in with me?

Clean bathrooms and scrub floors.

Todays Mission is my bedroom. Because I had my birthday lately (but still almost a month ago) I had to get stuff out of the way. Since none of my birthday audience is particularly interested in my bedroom or my office (that’s the next project) they make for pretty good hiding places.

Of course, after I’ve had that party, I never got around setting things back the way they were… so it’s a Mess with capital M. Also, because of all the shit on my bed I didn’t switch the sheets (luckily, I did it not long before ;)). With the awesome weather we’ve got today, I can wash them and dry them in the sun rather than the electric drier, so that’s a nice bonus!

Here I go…

Yesterday I did the livingroom, front hall and bathroom, you know, ultra clean kinda stuff: scrubbing walls and grout, washing windows inside and out, getting on my hands and knees to dust and vacuum under every piece of furniture. Today it’s kitchen time, then this week, I plan to do the bedroom and the closets. That will only leave the spare room, which is a huge project in itself. My goal is to be done with the main part of the house by next weekend.

I have been working fairly steadily on this. I’ve donated several bags of things, I sold several things on craigslist, and I gave some things away on freecycle. I made great progress on cleaning out my office/storage room to make it into a nursery. That meant I had to arrange our room and under the stairs to put some things. I helped my youngest son get his room in order… the new bookshelf and taking down his mini pool table helped a lot. Tonight I’ll put away the painting supplies I’m done with so far.

I want my house to be so clean, i want it to be like “eat off the floor” clean. Completly organized. Everything in its place. So…spotless and polished.