Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Oct 26, 2008 13:39:30 GMT -5
I am doing my major cleaning today, which means things like mopping, cleansering, cleaning the guinea pig cage (that one is gonna be so hard to force myself to do!!!!), vacuuming, etc.
I am a little bit mad at myself. I let the squalor creep in. It inserted a big toe in my home because I thought I didn't have to maintain on Friday night because I would be doing my big clean on Saturday. Then I didn't do the big clean on Saturday, so I thought I didn't have to maintain Saturday night because the big clean was coming today. It comes back so easily, so insidiously, just one or two little slip ups, and next thing you know...there are two small coke bottles on the bedroom floor, and two bras. A set of dirty clothes on my son's floor, and a shirt that fell off the hanger in the closet. There is a back pack on the kitchen floor, and a step stool out. The cereal box is on the counter. There is a blanket on the living room floor, and an inflatable toy. Things were spotless...If I didn't decide to do my big clean today, and kept putting it off, squalor would take over my home by the end of this week.
I think this is a very important thing for me to remember: Just because I desqualored completely does not mean I am not a person who is capable of living in squalor. It can come back as soon as I let it, and I had better not let it. I never want to do a huge whole house cleaning again, as long as I live. I don't ever want to pick up something nasty that has been left to sit. I don't ever want to sleep on a dirty mattress with no sheets with piles of crap surrounding me, on the bed and on the floor. I want to have people over, I don't want to live in fear! I almost gave it all up because I am ***...Thank god I was not too late to catch it before it got out of control.
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Blackswan
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Post by Blackswan on Oct 26, 2008 13:41:58 GMT -5
Oh my god, it blocks out the word *** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Oct 26, 2008 14:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by messymimi on Oct 26, 2008 16:56:12 GMT -5
This insidious creep of squalor is a fight to the death.
There is one thing that I read about that I hope to try someday (when I am desqualored like you). It is a game where every time someone leaves something out, that person gets a sticker next to his or her name on a list with the item and when it was left written on it. Everything counts. If they leave the plate, cup, and fork and knife from one meal, that is 4 items. At the end of the week, the person who left out the least stuff gets money, everyone else anteing up a quarter per item he/she left out.
To keep kids from snooping in each other's rooms, only mom and dad can catch an infraction in there. The only things that count in the room is unmade bed, trash out of the can (or the can not emptied on trash day) , laundry left lying around, or food/plates/containers and such. Mom and dad have the fun of trying to catch each other.
Encourage everyone in the house to erase the evidence that anyone was even in the room. If it takes less than 30 seconds to put something away or clean a small mess, do it now not later. These are easy to say, hard to do, automatic for the born organized who don't understand why we don't know these things without being told.
And the fact of the matter is that you are not l*a*z*y in any way, shape or form.
messymimi
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Post by Blackswan on Oct 26, 2008 18:16:40 GMT -5
That sounds like a great idea, I wish I had enough family here to do it (I live alone with my son, and he would win every time  ). You should post that onto the general board, because I bet a lot of people would like to try that with their families, especially some who have very big families, but they are the only one who is cleaning. Thanks for saying I am not l@zy. I have never been told that one before!  |
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