Someone give me the motivation to go and tidy my house pleaseeeeeeee!!!!...
Question:clothes need sorting, baby toys need picking up, room needs dusting, please give me the motivation to do it!!
(insults welcome)
Answers:
Your thinking about the whole job all at once and its overwhelming. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Forget the rest of the house and just concentrate on one room. Flip a coin, take out bits of folded paper with room names from a hat, it doesn't matter how you do it , just choose the room. Then do the worst bits first. Then do the less obvious bits. If the baby wakes up or needs attention before you've finished, at least it won't look so bad. Before you know it one room is finished and you can move on to the next. Have a tea break, check on the baby, decide on the next meal and then tackle the next room.
If you only do two rooms a day, the house is done in three to four days, depending on the size of your house. Then it's just a question of maintenance. By the way, how old is your baby? Don't you think that looking after a young child is enough work? We all try, and fail, to be perfect parents and housekeepers. Trying to keep a house tidy with young children is like trying to climb out of a gravel pit, it's natural to slide back once in a while. Perhaps what you really need to do is have a cuppa, put your feet up and have an early night. The housework will always be there, your baby will only be a baby once, enjoy them at whatever stage they are right now, because you won't get a chance later. Once they turn ten they have very little time for you.
Do you have anyone who could help you with either getting the house straight or looking after the baby while you do it? It shouldn't all be down to you. Meanwhile, close your eyes, imagine what your room will look like when you've finished and then make it happen!
Check out flylady.net. It is a great website. They offer many tricks, techniques to get you started with cleaning your home.
Just imagine someone you really admire is visiting you in two hours.
Invite somebody over for dinner tomorrow night--you'll get the work done just to avoid embarrassing yourself
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Get off your butt and get moving! The family doesnt want to live in a pigsty! C'mon! Be a super home-maker! You can do it!!
How's that? lol
*quick look busy jesus is coming!
*Kim and aggie are on their way complete with camera crew!
*ur mother /mother in law /fussy aunt whos loaded is visiting
*do it to find lost money or something of value
*nice weather will soon be here so do you really want to be cleaning instead of sunbathing or having a bar-b-q!
*find a friend with ocd and invite them for tea!!
and if i lived closer id help i like tiding up !!
Stop! Turn off the computer and get off your keister and do it!
Go clean up that pigsty before the health department declares it unfit for habitation and takes your kids away! And kick your lazy husband in the knuts and make him help!
www.flylady.com
this website is wonderful. It sends out e-mail reminders to do certain things. Its great
I am coming over there and kicking your **** if u don't get moving...right NOW..DO you want me to bring a TV show...How Clean is your House...so that we can embarrass u nationwide? Oh btw you r having relatives coming for a visit so get cracking Missy!
I am in much the same position.
Let's both make a pact to do it tomorrow!
And now we can watch TV guilt-free (ish).
How about self-esteem, for starters?
the social services are coming tomorrow to do a spot check on you and your baby
u should do it it wouldnt be that hard to pickup a few things i is so easy the faster u do it the fast u can do something else
just think of how Clean and uncluttered it will look when your finished think of it as expecting an unexpected person that will go to your house and feel jealous on how clean your house is compared to theres. everyone who goes to a clean house gets jelous of how much cleaner theirs looks compared to yours. also its an excersice have your kid(s) help you and show then your appretiation to helping by buying ice cream for them or treating them to somehting they want also you can treat yourself for cleaning your house
Try this way, Pick one room or one thing to do, Set your alarm clock to go off in 15 min´s time, see how much you can do in the short amount of time. Trust me you will be surprised just how much you can achieve . Never take thing´s back to their rightful homes till you have finished what you are doing, leave them next to the door. When your alarm clock goes off, sit down have a rest, but if you think you would rather carry on, then do the same again, set the clock for another 15 min´s. Just remember when you do finish the job you are doing , always reward yourself, even if it´s a few min´s with your feet up or read a magazine. Baby´s toy´s. to make thing´g easier for you put some toys away , only leave a few toy´s foe your child to play with, If your child is old enough to help then good , sometimes they have more fun playing with a big box, . Try foe yourself, 15 min´s here and there makes a big difference, also put your washing machine on last thing at night , your clothes will be ready to hang out first thing in the morning, Dusting, Look for duster wipes called SPONTEX, These little dusters will cut your cleaning time by half. Something in these dusters stops the dust settling back . You dust 1 day ,and won´t have to dust for next 2 day´s. Hope this help´s you a little
Shove the toys in a box, spray polish into the room so it SMELLS like its been dusted - then sigh heavily and say "I'll sort the clothes tomorrow - I've done enough for one day."
Tomorrow, sort the clothes - then sigh heavily and say "I can't believe how many clothes we own... and why is it MY job to sort them all out? I've done enough for one day!"
Next day, dust and relax in your beautiful home after sighing heavily and saying "My God! They weren't joking when they said a woman's work is never done! I think you should take me out for keeping such a beautiful home for you."
this is a two stage process.
1) Get over my knee I'll spank your bum..
2) Put the old man on stoppage until he helps
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