purplerabbits

I can totally understand that about not having someone else to motivate you. I think one of the things my partner k and I manage reasonably well is the acknowledgement of effort when one of us has done house work of any kind.

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!