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Old May 28, 2013, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by WikidPissah View Post
MUE - excuse me if I sound naive, but wouldn't cleaning for an hour daily be better than having to do an overhaul in a few weeks? My mother used to go insane before company or holidays...the stress was awful. Even though my house is generally spic & span, I still get violently ill and stressed when I have to have people over because of that conditioning I had as a child.
Ah yes, cleaning for an hour a day would be better, if this house was in decent condition to start. It's bad. Really bad. We can play "Where's Waldo" in pretty much every room of the house. It's not "hoarders" bad - but it's chaos everywhere. When we had the raccoon issue in our attic, everything came out of the attic - and was never put back up there.

The cleaning that I do on a regular basis is just to keep our heads above the chaos - laundry, dishes, living room, bathroom, pet clean-up.

And I find that during the stretches of time that I am not feeling well, any progress that I've made is wrecked in such a short amount of time. Bags get brought into the house and stuff isn't put away. My daughter trashes the living room. There's jewelry supplies and craft stuff everywhere.

I need to make more of an effort to tackle these things - to declutter - and then put a stop to bringing anything in the house. (It's usually my mom and aunt "getting rid of stuff" - and it's usable stuff for my craft projects, so I hate to part with them. And then I have bins of stuff set aside for a yard sale. The yard sale needs to happen. And I have to be brutal with letting things go. And I need my daughter to stop adding to the chaos and start helping more.

Getting ready to head out to my T session...but I have boxes ready for when I get home.
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