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Post by lostchild on Oct 20, 2014 23:54:32 GMT -5
Dishes rinsed and put in dishwasher. Waiting till dishwasher is filled to run.
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Post by cleanbee on Oct 21, 2014 0:21:52 GMT -5
Ran DW and unloaded. Washed skillet.
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Post by gracious on Oct 21, 2014 1:16:17 GMT -5
Great Job gracious! Doesn't it make you feel proud! Thank you Dayeanu. I am happy and dissatisfied at the same time. Happy that these harmful long standing habits/ideas re:dish washing seem to really be changing. (As Pam Young says, "I am in nervous remission") Dissatisfied in that this little "corner of clean" in the kitchen really puts a spotlight on the rest of my extremely cluttered, disorganized house. It's a good dissatisfaction though. Not the kind that has me berating myself. The kind of dissatisfaction that says you've made an unimaginable change in the act of washing dishes - that means it's possible with laundry, with paperwork, with supper preparation, with banking, etc., etc., etc. I'm dissatisfied with the chaos I've created and lived with for way too many years. And I didn't see that until I started to consistently wash my dishes. Papermoon would call this THE RIPPLE EFFECT. Today's dishes - DONE GRyPiT - DONE
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Post by papermoon on Oct 21, 2014 2:48:42 GMT -5
I think of the ripple effect as a good thing, and I hope you can find your way to seeing it as being good for yourself too, gracious. By now (since I joined this forum 6 months ago), the ripple effect has occurred many, many times throughout my apartment, from all those little "pebbles" of home care dropped here and there. Cleanliness and tidiness have rippled outward. It's a satisfying thing and a joy to celebrate, every tiny bit of it. No regrets for what it was before. Life is too short.
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Post by wynken on Oct 21, 2014 7:41:09 GMT -5
Dishes are being washed daily.
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Post by gracious on Oct 21, 2014 10:58:06 GMT -5
I think of the ripple effect as a good thing, and I hope you can find your way to seeing it as being good for yourself too, gracious. By now (since I joined this forum 6 months ago), the ripple effect has occurred many, many times throughout my apartment, from all those little "pebbles" of home care dropped here and there. Cleanliness and tidiness have rippled outward. It's a satisfying thing and a joy to celebrate, every tiny bit of it. No regrets for what it was before. Life is too short. Thank you papermoon. I think maybe I didn't explain myself very clearly. I absolutely see the ripple effect as a wonderful thing. Before "consistent dish-washing" there was a frustrated acceptance of the way things were. The way I was. I was resigned to the idea of "hit or miss" dish-washing. "Hit or miss" everything in my life. And a lot more miss than hit. I probably couldn't change or wouldn't change and if I somehow did I surely couldn't stick with it. 30+ years told me that. I. COULD. NOT. SEE. ANYTHING. DIFFERENT. FOR. MYSELF. And then the unimaginable happened. And I truly mean unimaginable. I was secretly skeptical when I started posting to this thread. Oh, I'm a great starter but when the novelty wears off I'm usually done and on to something else. And the mental baggage I brought with me when starting this task...........oh boy. But I kept doing dishes. And posting. And doing dishes. And posting. And real change happened. Is still happening. And I am happy/thrilled as I savor this success. And dissatisfied as I look around at the rest of my house. And that is good. (It just occurred to me as I'm writing this that there are 2 kinds of dissatisfaction. CONSTRUCTIVE dissatisfaction and DESTRUCTIVE dissatisfaction. Destructive dissatisfaction blames myself, berates myself, shames myself and causes inertia. Constructive dissatisfaction says "I don't like what I see but I want to change it" and causes action. One is directed inward and one is directed outward. Most of my life I have practiced the destructive kind.) CONSTRUCTIVE DISSATISFACTION means the RIPPLE EFFECT is at work. It means I no longer accept/am resigned to what is. It tells me where I hurt and what I want to heal. Constructive dissatisfaction means I now believe I can effect change. Things can be different. I can make them different. For me, it is a sign of health. Constructive Dissatisfaction = Action. The Ripple Effect. I hope I explained that better. Your input has been invaluable as I walk this walk. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
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Post by wynken on Oct 21, 2014 22:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by gracious on Oct 21, 2014 23:14:30 GMT -5
Thank you wynken. I think of you as the wise shepherdess of this thread giving lots of encouragement and invaluable input. So very appreciated. Today's dishes - DONE GRyPiT - DONE
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Post by cleanbee on Oct 22, 2014 5:56:58 GMT -5
Ran DW las nite, unloaded, wiped swiped, woke to sparkly kitchen
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Post by wynken on Oct 22, 2014 6:13:14 GMT -5
Ahhh gracious thank you. You and papermoon have both been consistent with the ripple effect efforts - once you got started. Really - the thread is all the people who post here. Especially those who regularly post their success while they are in the habit forming stage. dishes washed here tonight.
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Post by wynken on Oct 22, 2014 6:14:10 GMT -5
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Post by larataylor on Oct 22, 2014 7:11:14 GMT -5
I've been using my kitchen more, and it's not scaring me as much as it used to. I was afraid if I made a really big mess, it would just overwhelm me and stay there. I simplified my cooking a lot to make more more time for decluttering, but now I'm getting back to more thrifty practices of bulk cooking and fresh food from scratch.
AND … I'm keeping up with the kitchen in spite of that. And in spite of having a chore curfew in the evening so that I can get to sleep at night.
The cleaning up is just happening … it just seems much easier than I remember it being before … even the non-DW part of it feels really easy. My ktichen is not always perfect when I wake up in the morning, but it's perfect once or twice every day.
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Post by lostchild on Oct 22, 2014 10:10:03 GMT -5
Dishes done. Woke to clean workspace.
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Post by gracious on Oct 22, 2014 21:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by wynken on Oct 23, 2014 7:37:40 GMT -5
woohoo larataylor lostchild and gracious. It is a change in mindset that gets us over the hump of donwannas I think.. Unfortunately I bought 500g of sliced chicken breast that I froze un a block, have now unfrosted, and am yet to cook all at once. Tomorrow I must do it. message to me - buy things more sensibly, easier to use for my style cooking. Like lara - I need it to be simple. I like that prep does not take longer than eating. dishes washed tonight - though skipping on cooking dinner is not really that helpful.
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