Housework. uggggggg everyone hates to do it, but like most things in life it has to be done ….no matter how much you hate it. I mean sure once in a while you put up the fight, avoiding those dishes, overlooking that crowded hamper on the floor..we have all been there but check it, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE just like pap smears and dentist trips you gotta do it. Why, because no one truly likes a messy home, it takes forever to find stuff, you are always fearful when someone stops by unexpectedly and then when you do feel like doing something its just too much too soon which makes you even more frustrated. Sooooo my rule is this: studies show that people spend at least 2 hours a day doing household chores (and if you have kids and do the cooking that number is more like 6 hours.) So by the time you reach 60 years old you would have spent a staggering total of 40320 hours doing housework! That is the equavilant of 4 years! Imagine 4 years of complaining, whining,sweaty and grungy and miserable OR make you can make it fun. Do up a chart list, google one if you have to, use a timer and spent 15 minutes doing one thing then rest and spend another 15 minutes doing something else BUT NO MATTER WHAT DON’T LET IT PILE UP ON YOU.And try to do something along with cleaning like use this time for inner reflection or compling a dinner list for next week or even catching up on the news or finally listening to that favourite cd you bought months ago or thinking over that new business idea… whatever just get up and go. Good luck and hope this helps.
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Well it seems my ability too keep up with my housework is directly linked to my mental state! I have had a bit of a tough time in recent weeks and have let one or two things slip. I got up this morning and saw what a mess I had got into… so I have done a few bits today and tomorrow I am going to sort it. I have also just started to scrub walls down ready for filling and painting so I HAVE to get my arse in gear… they can’t stay the way they look now… so I have to do it! Forced motivation I suppose but it works for me. I’ll be back next week with an update… :)
Still working on this. I want to set aside 1 hour each day for chores. The hour before bedtime seems to work well.
I’m very lazy. Mike does the most around here – I clean the bathroom and kitchen, and cook. Mike does most else.
So I’m gonna start pulling my weight!
glitterygirl is going to sew!
I’ve been doing an online clutter course! It’s been really good as it’s forced me to make plans rather than randomly put things away without an end goal in mind. I’ve spent most of this weekend sorting drawers and clothes, magazines, books and dusting. I know once I’ve organised all of my clutter the housework will become a bit easier to keep up with.
Its great to be keeping up with everything now. The house is clean, I have time for dinner, myself, the dog, and just everything I didnt have time to do. Theres alot less tension building up when I can do something in a day other than cleaning :) It makes me alot happier to not have to live with the mess to
I moved to germany to be closer to the hubby about 2 months ago. It was SO much easier to keep up with the house cleaning. Now we are settled in, got a dog…And theres piles of laundry, and dishes, and the floor needs scrubbed every single day or else, or bedrooms a mess, the kitchen is a disaster and I find that I don’t care. Cause its not the first time its looked this way. But my husband is used to living alone and only having to clean his tiny barracks room when told to. Now he has an entire house to wreck and me to clean it. I’m just struggling with this so bad. I clean everything up and catch up which takes about two days.. And then a weekend comes up, and the house looks worse then before I started. I’m going nuts but I am going to keep confident that he will help(he does from time to time) and I wont have to keep reliving this nightmare…I just miss living alone and being organized. But I love my hubby dearly and cant entirely blame him. Thats all for now
glitterygirl is going to sew!
This thing is actually going really well!
There’s still heaps of room for impovement, but at present I’m content that I’ve made a lot of headway into the de-cluttering and organisational side of life.
