Cleaning & Organizing

Finding misplaced mail. Wow, I can relate to that.

I'm going to look over this thread for ideas - like timing how long to complete tasks. My apartment became chaotic over the holidays, and I can't seem to get the place back together again. It is so depressing. I just want to stay in bed, hide under the covers and ignore the rest of the place.

I still have Christmas decorations half put away in boxes strewn around the place in every room. I go thru this every year - post holiday season blues.

I'm sick of eating TV dinners just because I don't want to have pots and pans to clean. That's because I don't want to cause another mess on top of all that's waiting for me to get done. I'm such a procrastinator. It's an awful trait.

I had a dream I was cleaning out a drawer and found a carton of milk from 2017; also, Molly Ringwald was there. Random, but it is inspiring me to want to go through some drawers today. Yippee!

7 year old carton of milk. That cracked me up. But, hey, whatever inspires you.

I'm doing better. Xmas stuff is almost all squared away. My place is looking much better. Now I have some momentum, so tomorrow will be easier.

Today's stats:

10am - Made the bed, cleaned the dishes, fixed up the couch.

I want to try and keep myself accountable here. I need to clean my whole house soon and do laundry. I think Monday I am going to tackle that.

Exactly 8 months later and I had to make up a new bottle of homemade cleaning solution. I used up the rest of the distilled water plus some filtered water from the fridge for the rest. I used 11 drops of sweet orange essential oil, only because it was the first bottle I found. I marked the spray bottle at the one cup & two cup mark so I won’t have to use the measuring cup next time. I don’t use a lot of cleaning solution because I use a micro fiber cloth and the micro fiber cloth works better when not overly saturated. This is what works for me.

Took out accumulated garbage and recycling. Ive been feeling dizzy for the past month or so, so i started watching my sodium intake, as i had been frankly going to town on it. That has pretty much stopped the dizziness. My blood pressure was also high there towards the end, otherwise maybe i would have figured it out earlier.

I just need to do stuff every day every day every day.

Over The Christmas Holidays I managed to donate one big bag of clothes and early February I will have one big box to give away to donation

Cleaned up my house today. Swept up everything and cleaned my bathroom and tub. I feel much better. Still have to clean the back room with all my husband's clothes.

I’ve been helping my sister decluttering her clothes

Did a whole bunch of Spring Cleaning today. Was feeling a bit of pain this morning, but I got up to wash my sheets and just started doing all the floors, the bathroom and everything. Even went outside with a broom and got rid of all the cobwebs on the front porch above my door and neighbor's door. I feel so much better! I am also going to get some more fresh flowers next week.

Washed towels and bedding on Thursday, took a hard nap Friday to recuperate, cleaning the bathroom on Saturday.

I started decluttering a little bit more in my closet

Been doing pretty good at keeping my place clean and tidy. But it only takes two days of being demoralized to have that chaos demon running around here messing it all up.

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Did my bathroom today and scrubbed my tub. It felt good to do that. Going to get to my kitchen and the rest of my house the rest of the week. : )

Washing my clothes right now and gonna wash my sheets later. Did the dishes. Need to do some other stuff today but idk if I have the motivation

I just spent two hours cleaning and organizing the top of my desk, including putting all the sewing patterns, knitting patterns, and coloring pages I’ve been printing from the internet into a binder.

I got new clothes from my next door neighbor and I had taken all of my winter clothes bags them up place in the washroom until winter and do do the same with my summer clothes. I reorganize the hallway closet and and got rid of tore up towels and sheets that no longer fit

I spent almost two hours cleaning our bathroom today and I didn’t even do the whole thing. It’s about the size of a closet too. That’s how bad it was/how thorough I am. I approach the cleaning of it like the bathroom at work (which is not even close to being that bad). First thing: squirt cleanser into the toilet bowl to sit. Couldn’t find the toilet bowl cleanser, so squirted soap into it (better than nothing). Then I put a microfiber cloth on the end of a broom with a rubber band to wipe down the walls. Then wipe down the fixtures, working my way counterclockwise from the door and down from the ceiling. Then wipe down the sink. Then wipe down the toilet. Then scrub the bowl. Then wipe down the floor. In the midst of all that, I found the toilet bowl cleanser, so I scrubbed down the soap & flushed it & then squirted the toilet bowl cleanser to set & scrubbed that & flushed it. I wiped down every single object from its dust/fuzz/hair/mystery substance covered surface. I didn’t get to the shower. My dream is that my family member will take care of the bucket under the sink that is soaking rags that have a smell my vocabulary is inadequate to describe. Other than that, it looks ******* fantastic in there. Except for the shower/tub. **** it.

…& just to paint a picture for you: it takes about ten minutes to clean the bathroom at work that is 4 times the size of our bathroom at home. That is: spraying the toilet bowl cleaner, dusting the high surfaces and fans, spraying and wiping down the mirror, counter, sink, exterior toilet surfaces, scrubbing the toilet bowl, sweeping, and mopping. It is so much easier to clean a clutter free space, it isn’t even funny.