Baby steps
Jul. 11th, 2012 09:35 amSometimes, when the housework gets to be too much for me, I turn to the sappy, uberChristian, cloying FlyLady to get me back on track. She irritates me sometimes, but her methods seem to work for me, so she's my go-to resource.
Anyway, I'm going to do her 31days of baby steps, starting today, and I'm going to try to post about it once a day, with before-and-after pics for my own motivation. (That is, I plan to update each day's post, rather than posting about it several times a day.) Join me if you feel like it!
[Note: Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
apis_mellifera for the pointer to Unfuck Your Habitat, which may address some of the things I dislike about the FlyLady. I'll check it out.]
Day One: Shine Your Sink (and do 15 minutes of decluttering)
You can see all my before pics on Flickr, and then the after pics of my shined sink. Later, I will add decluttering before/after pics to the lot. I'm gong to choose to declutter the box of stuff at my feet because it's the most immediately annoying.
Later...
So, 15 minutes is a long time.
I decluttered the box for about five minutes, including putting everything where it was supposed to be. In the remaining ten minutes, I picked up the floor around the box, putting things away as I went, emptied all the wastebaskets, went around picking up trash, and took the trash out to the big bin outside. And now I'm gonna stop, even though I feel like keeping it up, because burnout is a real hazard for me, and I don't want to burn out. Besides, I do have other things to do, like beginning to lay out the magazine. If you have stuff to share for the magazine, please do!
Anyway, I'm going to do her 31days of baby steps, starting today, and I'm going to try to post about it once a day, with before-and-after pics for my own motivation. (That is, I plan to update each day's post, rather than posting about it several times a day.) Join me if you feel like it!
[Note: Thanks to
apis_mellifera for the pointer to Unfuck Your Habitat, which may address some of the things I dislike about the FlyLady. I'll check it out.]Day One: Shine Your Sink (and do 15 minutes of decluttering)
You can see all my before pics on Flickr, and then the after pics of my shined sink. Later, I will add decluttering before/after pics to the lot. I'm gong to choose to declutter the box of stuff at my feet because it's the most immediately annoying.
Later...
So, 15 minutes is a long time.
I decluttered the box for about five minutes, including putting everything where it was supposed to be. In the remaining ten minutes, I picked up the floor around the box, putting things away as I went, emptied all the wastebaskets, went around picking up trash, and took the trash out to the big bin outside. And now I'm gonna stop, even though I feel like keeping it up, because burnout is a real hazard for me, and I don't want to burn out. Besides, I do have other things to do, like beginning to lay out the magazine. If you have stuff to share for the magazine, please do!