[Crook32]

So right now is a perfect time for some spring cleaning since I am a little hypomanic. The problem is no matter how much junk we get out of the house and reorganize the house still looks like a tornado hit it. So then that pushes me to the irritable side of hypomania. Which then can lead to my crash. I like the hypomania because I finally have energy to do things and some motivation. Problem is I can get a little OCD and stuck on one thing. It is really hard to find a balance with all these different moods and emotions flowing at the same time. It is so hard to explain it to anyone who has never experienced. That includes our Ts. They say they understand but do they?

When I think of spring cleaning I think of nitty gritty cleaning, not mess clearing. I'm not 100% sure if you've still got messes bothering you. If so, superficially make things look good first, then concentrate on the details.

When we have guests coming, I find myself doing the "make everything look good" part and my husband wastes time on a project that no one will really notice. What he does is great, but not as the big picture task to be done. If it takes hiding dirty pans in the oven and kicking stuff in a closet and shutting the door at first, consider doing that. Then perhaps open the oven and cleaning the pans, then the oven. Then opening the closet and organizing the mess in there.

I recently cleaned my pantry and replaced the contact paper on the shelves. That did make a mess while being done, but the rest of the house looked passably fine in the meantime. One nitty gritty project at a time.

[gina_re]

I wish I could be hypomaniac so I can get some cleaning done. But I agree with bird dancer, one project at a time.

[Crook32]

So I decided to go through the kitchen cabinets to get rid of things we never use. I tried to get rid of a place setting that we haven’t used in 18 years but my wife through a fit. Her mom is a hoarder and she got a little bit of it in her too. So we compromised and moved them to a lesser used cabinet. At least now cups won’t come flying out at me when I open the cabinet. Really wanted to get rid of the couch in the garage but found out that the drywall ceiling fell on it and blocking it. Plus it is raining so maybe next weekend. Our kids just have too much stuff. We want to sell it but don’t have time to deal with that. I am so itching to get that couch gone.

[Moose72]

I just did some basics today- kitchen, laundry, general picking up, take the trash out, etc. I feel better now. Maybe tomorrow I'll vaccuum and clean the bathroom- though I did do a little bit in there, too.

[Jedi67]

when my kids were young and before I was diagnosed I would get hypomanic just looking at their rooms. my wife would yell at me for clearing out stuff they still used. these days when I'm hypomanic, I tend to re-organize everything over and over again until they look exactly the same way when I started. I do have a routine for cleaning but when hypomanic, I have to be more mindful when I can or I'll throw out our furniture if no one is looking. that would really land me in hot water.