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Post by skatters on Sept 14, 2008 20:03:52 GMT -5
Does anyone else have a "Right" time to clean, vs. a "Wrong" time?
I can motivate myself to clean better on weekends, or evenings. Occasionally, I even desire to clean at these times. (But not very often!)
The problem with this is that I am a SAHM - but all my kids are in school all day this year. The week days would be perfect for me to begin to clean and unclutter. But I just can't seem to motivate myself. It doesn't feel right. I don't know how to explain it... but the house seems more 'gray' during the week. And weekends are more 'yellow'. Yellow being the higher activity time for me. (I know, I know - I am weird with my color references, but I don't know how else to explain it!)
Previously, as a full time working mom, I was only able to clean on the weekends or evenings. So maybe that has something to do with it. Every work day feels like I am at home playing hookey... like as a child when you were home sick from school. But I stopped working 4 years ago - I should be over that by now.
At one point, I thought it had to do with my kids - that I felt more alive/alert/active when they were home. But this past summer with the kids home full time was the same. "Gray" on the weekdays.
This is especially problematic because during evenings and weekends, I want to spend my energy with the kids or family related activities. Or, if I happen to clean a bit - it doesn't get maintained during the week and I am right back to where I started during the week.
This makes no sense to me. But I feel if I can overcome this hurdle - even with baby steps, that I would make BIG progress on my house...
ANY insight would be appreciated!
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Post by neverstoplearning on Sept 14, 2008 21:59:26 GMT -5
I don't know if this is similar to your issue, but I have a harder time cleaning during unstructured time. Often, I get more cleaning done on my busy days because I'm trying to squeeze things in between activities. If I have the whole day free, it's really hard to get started on anything. That's why I try to structure my time and plan ahead for certain cleaning tasks. For example, on Tuesday, I might make a date with myself to vacuum after dropping DS off to school on Thursday. Somehow it's easier to follow through if I know it's coming.
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Post by brenda on Sept 15, 2008 0:46:17 GMT -5
I agree that a schedule is the best way to go. When you have a huge block of time in front of you somehow it is easier to procrastinate then when that time is broken out in smaller segments.
Now that I am not working I have to put myself on a schedule or I will do next to nothing all day.
Brenda
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Post by stressedbythemess on Sept 15, 2008 7:20:17 GMT -5
Overall, I would try to figure out what makes a weekday gray, vs a weekend day yellow. since it's not the presence of your children at home.
Is it just that you know it's a weekday (thus an internal thing to deal with) or is there something that goes on on weekdays (yet to be identified) that makes them seem less energetic etc?
I mean that's just my thoughts though- deconstructing the why- so maybe you can alter it.
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Post by metamorpha on Sept 15, 2008 8:26:49 GMT -5
Maybe, if you tried assigning each day a series of tasks you did every week, it would be easier to get things done before the kids get home?
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