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purplerabbits at 09:50am on 17/08/2006 under flatkeeping
purplerabbits at 09:50am on 17/08/2006 under flatkeepingWell I didn't do much housework yesterday, 'cos Jon came round and we watched a couple of episodes of Nightingales, which was very pleasant, I am going to keep listing what I've done, though, cos it seems to motivating me, so I will put it away under a tidy lj-cut
So yesterday I did most of the stuff on my list except put the tent away, which is annoying cos it has to go High Up. I took a wee bag to the charity shop which has been sitting in the hall since forever, bought bin bags, put the Tesco shopping away when it arrived, gave the carrier bags to the Tesco guy for recycling and incidently sorted out the little wheely trolley that the bags were on, cleaned the grill pan (ew), and put the dry clothes away after Jon had gone even though I didn't want to cos it was on my list. I also managed to clean all the surfaces in the kitchen, including emptying the toaster and hoovering up a lot of crumbs.
Stuff that still needs doing
put tent away (really)
clean cooker (I sort of hoovered it last night and it really sticks out in my clean kitchen now so I might get to it tonight)
clean sink and bath
clean loo
mop bathroom floor
tidy my room and then hoover it (I've been doing a bit of picking up as I go along so this no longer merits an exclamation mark)
tidy the living room!
Take the stuff that belongs to Beltane to the store-room on Saturday
So yesterday I did most of the stuff on my list except put the tent away, which is annoying cos it has to go High Up. I took a wee bag to the charity shop which has been sitting in the hall since forever, bought bin bags, put the Tesco shopping away when it arrived, gave the carrier bags to the Tesco guy for recycling and incidently sorted out the little wheely trolley that the bags were on, cleaned the grill pan (ew), and put the dry clothes away after Jon had gone even though I didn't want to cos it was on my list. I also managed to clean all the surfaces in the kitchen, including emptying the toaster and hoovering up a lot of crumbs.
Stuff that still needs doing
put tent away (really)
clean cooker (I sort of hoovered it last night and it really sticks out in my clean kitchen now so I might get to it tonight)
clean sink and bath
clean loo
mop bathroom floor
tidy my room and then hoover it (I've been doing a bit of picking up as I go along so this no longer merits an exclamation mark)
tidy the living room!
Take the stuff that belongs to Beltane to the store-room on Saturday
okay
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Another motivator was my physiotherapists horror in 2003 when she found out what kind of cleaning I attempted on a regular basis in the various student shitholes that I lived in. I was pretty much banned from heavy cleaning for life if I wanted to avoid major surgery sooner rather than later. The only affordable way not to have evil levels of mess (made by selfish housemates) was for k and I to have our own place so that the mess was ours alone and housework didn't build up to silly levels.
When we moved back to Sheffield for me to finish my degree we found the 2up-2down place that we're in now which luckily costs about the average-rent in Sheffield each per week. I was amazed at how much less stressed I became after 2003 when I wasn't having to deal with disgusting and lazy housemates. I eat better, sleep better and when I want to hide I can go and read in the bath which isn't minging!
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Now I have a sexy defrosted freezer.
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I find a problem with making a list which says 'tidy living room': I think it's better to break it down into lots of little tasks, otherwise it seems overwhelming. Another problem I have is making decisions: I pick something off a pile, can't decide what to do with it so put it back on the pile and get dispirited.
I actually really really hate dirt, but I hate touching it much more than I hate looking at it, which is why I don't do cleaning!
It sounds like you're achieving loads - go you!
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You are right of course. It's still at that stage in my list cos I haven't wanted to look at it much yet. Often in the living room I tidy particular bits of furniture (the coffee table gets totally full of stuff), so maybe I'll break it down like that.
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Mostly fix/clean X, get rid of Y, move Z to enable shelves to be built, but same principles.
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I really need to get into the habit of doing this, too. The problem at the moment is that the old bags live in the utility room, and by the time everything's been unloaded, that's hard to get to because the new, full bags are in the way. I also feel stupidly guilty about making the nice deliveryman wait (it's almost always the same guy, and I like him a lot.) I guess I should try to bring the old bags through into the kitchen earlier in the day so that they're ready.
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