Cleanliness is next to godliness
12.19.06 (11:48 pm) [edit]If cleanliness is next to godliness, I'm going to Hades.
The last time I cleaned my room was about this time last year. I hate cleaning; it just isn't high on my priotority list... ok, so I admit if it's not on the bottom, it's really really close. One of my two aversions to living on campus is that they HAVE to clean their rooms once a week; I'm doing good to get all the junk off the floor once a week to vacuum and to change the sheets. (The second aversion would be that I would be forced to eat the nasty cafeteria food at $7.50 a plate. I don't pay that much for good food on a regular basis!)
I approach the tBlog community with this problem: my family is hosting the annual Christmas party for my mom's side this year, which means the whole house has to be sparkling. Now, the rest of my family aren't the cleanist people in the world, but I would bet I'm probably the worst... except I have the ability to throw unneeded things away, unlike my mother. My grandmother-- who is the tidiest person in my family except for my aunt who dusts EVERYDAY and keeps plastic covers on her furniture-- has been at my throat for months to get my room clean and is so now more than ever that I have time off. (I may have time off, but I don't particularly care to spend my vacation cleaning.) So what I need is some motivation. Please?... I think.
UPDATE!! I cleaned!!! Aren't you proud? Ok, I didn't dust but that can be saved for the cleaning lady. I even reorganized my closet. *beams from ear to ear* In doing so, I found lots of items I thought I had lost, although I still haven't found my 2 missing ID cards. I did discover however, that I have more khaki-ish colored pants than any female should be allowed to own and my number of brown flip flops has been reduced to 2 pair, down from the 5 or 6 pair last time I cleaned. I wonder what happened to those other pairs. Maybe the closet monster ate them. I also found have about twice as many books as I did last time I cleaned, not including the ones I'm selling. I'm not entirely sure how that happened. *shrugs* Thanks to everyone's motivation and bawdy, you can let the kitty go now.
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then I'm a goddess... until the next time I'm in a flurry to get out the door anyway.
posted by: bawdy (reply)
post date: 12.20.06 (10:51 am)
*puts a gun to a kitty cat's head*
Clean, or else the kitty is history!
posted by: inkspector (reply)
post date: 12.20.06 (1:03 pm)
This is what they say on HGTV:
Get three bins or boxes. Mark them 1. Trash, 2. Keep, 3. Donate.
Work in one area at a time, like clean your floor first. Then along
your walls, then your closet.
After you clean and fill your bins, get rid of the trash and donate
stuff.
Wash your bedding, vacuum your floor, dust your furniture, wash your windows,
wash your curtains and things will look good and you will feel better.
posted by: babe4jesus55 (reply)
post date: 12.20.06 (8:23 pm)
Reply to: bawdy
NOOOO!! NOT the kitty!!!
posted by: babe4jesus55 (reply)
post date: 12.20.06 (8:23 pm)
Reply to: inkspector
That sounds like a good plan. Thanks!
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 12.22.06 (5:31 am)
One of my Ex's friend did something interesting for a number of years. She had black trash bags screen-printed with a smiley face and would send one a month to her friends urging, if not insisting, that they fill that bag with stuff they didn't use or need any longer and get rid of the thing during that month, before the next one arrived. They came with a note explaining that these particular bags were not to be used for everyday garbage but were intended to help people reduce the number of "things" in their lives. -Kind of a neat idea, I always thought.
posted by: babe4jesus55 (reply)
post date: 12.22.06 (8:48 am)
Reply to: surrogate
That is an awesome idea! I should give one to my mom; she's such a pack rat. That's the only cleaning skill I've aquired: throwing stuff away I don't use. That has gotten me in trouble a few times though; actually needing that thing I thought I would never need in a bazillion years. Oops. About the only thing I keep alot of is books, but I only keep the ones that I need/will need for reference in my schooling/career and life or that were really great reads.
