keep up with housework

On Monday I did housework ALL DAY!

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!

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

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.

I’m finally decluttering! I’ve nearly finished organising my study. I’ve filled a box with stuff to give away. I’ve started writing weekly lists of things to do in terms of housework and clutter sorting. It’s going really well and I’m pleased with myself.

I want to keep the house tidy. It doesn’t have to always be clean, just tidy

I’m one of those people who loves the idea of ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’. But I’m hopeless at maintaining it. On top of this, I’m a hoarder. A bad one. So my goal for 2008 is not only to keep up with day to day cleaning, but also to throw things out, organise things sensibly so I can get something out without having to remove everything from the cupboard. Basically, I need to de-clutter and stay de-cluttered!

better things in life to spend my time on. :D