How to find your focus while cleaning… Too Many Bright, Shiny Objects: How To Avoid Distractions When You’re Trying To Find Your Cleaning Focus Where Can I Buy Marsupial-Proof Locks? Do you ever gaze around your house in wonderment and think “when did a gang of deranged kangaroos storm through here?” “And why were they eating Cheetos on the couch?”…
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How to get motivated to clean your house on lazy days when you’re just not feeling it… When You Can’t Get Someone To Pay You a Million Dollars To Clean Your House Sometimes I wake up and think, “anything I do today will not be enough…so why bother?” Are you thinking right now, “solidarity, sister!” Talk about defeating ourselves before…
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How to motivate yourself to clean when you’re depressed… Sometimes you’re not inspired to get your house together because you just want to play all day. Or there’s too much on Netflix. Or Hulu. Or Google Play… Those are regular motivation issues, and I address them in a previous post, How To Motivate Yourself To Clean When You’re Just Not…
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If you can’t figure out how to keep track of everything, there’s one small trick that can make a big difference. When Mental Notes Make You Mental: How to Keep Ideas from Disappearing Into the Ether Because Who Doesn’t Enjoy Catching Lightning Bugs? While tapping merrily away on my series about household management, I kept running into a snag. I…
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How to get organized by making the most out of your week… A Weekly Routine Is Like a Dance Routine – Only Way More Boring and Also There’s No Dancing I hate the word “routine.” I balked at scheduling my week. For years. I’d like to say it’s because I’m a free spirit, but my spirit feels a lot freer…
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