Oh, I hate housework also. What fires me up is to see those TV shows where someone’s home is totally out of control. To the point where they need professional help. Sometimes psychological. All of a sudden I feel the need to take control of myself & my house. This’ll last for 1 or 2 days then my normal self takes over again. :teehee:
Don’t feel bad. Here’s what I did today, after getting off of work (and I get off at 3pm):
Washed dishes and stove
Hung a few clothes on the line to dry
Cooked dinner (two separate dinners, actually)
Pretty bad, eh? 
I always thought I was alone in this! My husband’s mom is a mom whose house always looks like is should be on the cover of a magazine, not some high style one, much more relaxed. I understand how to do that, basically clean as you make a mess but doing it, well that is another matter. I always find that when I look at the house or a room with someone else’s eyes, it is a mess and I need to clean. We will not talk about my dining room right now…:shifty:
Holy cow, you mean you have to CLEAN the rooms? OK so perhaps that is what I am doing wrong!
All joking aside, I put on my favourite music, songs that have a good beat and I start! Usually, when putting something away in one room, I’ll find something I didn’t do in there and then do it while I am in there, then go to another room and the same thing will happen. There is no organization in my cleaning, but it does eventually all get done. I should wear a podometer on cleaning day to see how much extra walking I do!!!
If I have something in the knitting basket that has a deadline then you might as well forget seeing my place spic and span because it is NOT going to happen. LOL!
Everyone here makes me feel better. I work with 3 women that are cleaning maniacs. They make me feel so ashamed. One, actually got hurt cleaning her house. She jammed her finger when dusting over the stove. Another one fell off of a ladder cleaning her light fixture. They clean their offices all of the time. They haven’t seen my house, thank goodness. I have too many magazines, too much fabric, too much yarn, too much junk.
Too much junk, too little house is my problem.
It was also my friend’s problem when they lived in a similar sized house. After they inherited his grandmother’s house their house was instantly always clean.
It’s like my kitchen now that I have enough storage space I can keep it clean.
This is cracking me up! We have a tiny house with 4 people living in it. It isn’t too bad except that we all share a bathroom! It looks like a bomb went off in there!!
I try to get some relative or friend to come and visit about once a month. That way it FORCES me to clean the house good and proper. Other than that, forget it. I never have time, I have a 2 year old home all the time and she gets into everything and wants to “help”. If I cleaned when she naps, when would I have time to knit???
Oh, yeah! My mom’s house, too! Straight out of a museum! And she had 5 kids!! 5!!! Of course, we kids did all the cleaning, every Saturday. Made me feel like I never had time to play or just be a kid. Wonder if that’s why I’m such a rebelious housecleaner now?! Hmm…
Want to know the most disgusting part of this? My kids are grown! GROWN! I have a senior in high school and a 26 year old (rebound kid) living at home! And it’s still a pigsty! I have no excuse for this mess EXCEPT ME of course! (guilt, guilt, guilt)
By the way, no dusting got done today. Took all day to do my October Newsletter for my little business, and set up my little webstore for the October special. My website host had my webstore down. Now tell me… How’m I supposed to run a business with my webstore down? Huh? It’s working now, everything’s okay. But I’m still in my pajamas and it’s 7pm. Yeah, P.M.
Tomorrow’s another day! (Let’s hope!)
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I sooo need to show this thread to hubby so he can see for himself I am not the only person in the world who avoids and hates housework :teehee:
My house isn’t disgusting but I really do the minimal. I get dishes done, counters cleaned, vacuum and mop on occasion…lol…but there are piles of stuff everywhere. Those are what I call my “organized messes.” lol
Between 2 kids, 6 cats, and 2 dogs, I would have to clean night and day to stay on top of things! I never have been a neat freak by any means and I can usually find better ways to occupy my time than cleaning the house 
But, I have to agree with the others who have said their motivation is inviting someone over…haha…If I know I’m going to have company, I make it a point to do extra and set a time limit for myself.
MoniDew,
Your talents just lie in other areas. I used to think I was alone too. I felt really pathetic that I had such a hard time doing what came so naturally to other people. I thought I was just lazy or something was wrong with me. I am always going a million miles an hour and am just not that organized. I could try to blame it on my husband & kids- but I wasn’t organized before them either. I can manage to keep things semi under control sometimes- but it takes daily babysteps.
It turns out, I am really a perfectionist that thought if I didn’t have time to do it right, then I didn’t have time to do anything. I was amazed at what just 15 minutes at a time did. I feel so much better when things are more tidy- but that alone doesn’t seem enough motivation to keep it consistent.
That being said, I can’t see my bedroom floor right now. So feel better and ((((((((hugs))))))))))
PS- If you have a good friend that you can trade some chores with to help you downsize clutter if that’s a problem- do it. One of my dear friends came over when I was pregnant with my son & we were moving my daughter to another room- and stayed all day helping me sort through her room, get rid of a bunch of stuff and paint. (she is a ruthless tosser of junk too- that helped) I ran som e errands for her that she didn’t have time to do.
Thank you, Renee! Thank you, all of you! Thanks for aleviating the guilt and making me laugh. I needed to get some perspective that a clean house isn’t everything in life. I really appreciate your loving support. Thanks, to all.
Okay, so I feel ridiculous bumping this silly thread, but I had to say - I’ve just discovered SWIFFERS! HAH! :woot:
It’s never made any sense to me to just knock the dirt around. So I never dusted. Never! But I decided to try the Swiffers, because I thought I could actually pick the dirt up and carry it out of my house - which made so much more sense to me. And, lo’ and behold, they actually work. I dusted! I actually dusted. For the first time in YEARS. SERIOUSLY!
HURRAY for Swiffers!
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I think I need me some of those!
If you spray just a tiny bit of Pledge of similar product on the pad it will pick up and hold even more dust. A friend who cleans houses gave me that tip.
When I lived in an apartment durring college, Some friends of mine and I set up a Cleaning Co-op
One saturday a month we would go to one apartment
the owners of that appartment would provide food and drinks
the ‘guests’ would do the cleaning job that they did best
the next saturday we would do the next apartment
ONLY in order, The girls, then mine, then the couple in the corner unit on 2, then the dancers (man I wish I could remember any of their names)
it worked well, I did lifting and shifting baskets of laundry, and cleaned bathrooms and kitchen sinks
we each helped each other when we were done
then pizza and beer or wine
chips and hor derves, cheese crackers, etc
good eats for only a little bit of work
but once a month, my place looked GOOD
ecb