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What is wrong with me?
My house is a MESS. I never let it get this bad! I always clean on Saturday and straighten up once or twice during the week. This week I've done nothing but be lazy and our house looks awful. So today I have a huge pile of dirty dishes waiting to be washed, laundry, and clothes baskets full of clothes that need put away, waiting on me at home. I started to call in sick just so I could clean today lol
Two souls but a single thought; Two hearts that beat as one
Re: What is wrong with me?
Just try and do a little bit of it at a time, don't let it overwhelm you!
Sometimes, when I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, I will just set a timer for like...15 or 20 minutes (sometimes 10 minutes if I'm feeling realllllly unmotivated - you can do ANYTHING for ten minutes, right?) So I set the timer, and then I just tackle something. One thing. Like the dishes. You'd be surprised how many dishes you can get through in ten minutes, but if the timer goes off before I'm done, I just stop. And I go read a chapter of the book I'm reading, or I watch one segment (like from commercial to the next commercial) of a show I'm watching online...something small like that. Then I will reset the timer and do it over again.
A lot of times when the timer goes off and I'm in the middle of something, I will just finish that something. Because as much as I tell myself in my mind "Ugh, I hate doing the dishes!" and I procrastinate doing them...as soon as I'm ACTUALLY doing them, I'm all "lalala, this isn't bad at all!" and I enjoy the feeling of the hot water and the bubbles and the satisfaction of getting something clean.
So, long story short. Bribe yourself. Set a timer for a do-able amount of time, the second it goes off go do something that you enjoy, then repeat.
Just don't like...watch an entire show. Just a segment. Or read an entire book. Just a chapter. Get what I'm saying?
Haha thanks girls! I don't feel so bad now! Thanks for the suggestions J! I think FIL is coming up to help HH put insulation under our house tonight, so I think I'll just turn on some music and clean until I'm finished.
My dear that is why I do love my children! They like allowance I like a clean house! HAHA they are cleaning today and tomorrow for me while I am at work once they get home from school.
I have company coming on Saturday from this very board woooohooo!!!
Edit: One goes to school the other home schools all day so she does stuff when her sister gets home from school!
Or, in my case, every now and then I have a clean house. LOL Thank goodness Matt isn't a clean freak! I don't remember the last time I dusted. It has to have been at LEAST a month ago. Probably much longer. I did vacuum the other night because he said he'd go to the store if I did the dishes and vacuumed.
My mom tried to keep a clean house, but with a wood-burning furnace, a dog and cat that came and went as they pleased, two kids, and a husband who dug graves every day and refuses to take his shoes off when he comes indoors, she was fighting a losing battle. Thus I was raised with a pretty broad definition of the term "clean."
Kelly, we had a wood burning stove too! Its amazing how much dust comes off wood, and little pieces of bark were always everywhere! lol
I guess most of the house is technically "clean", there's just stuff laying around everywhere that needs put away or washed haha