Too Many Bright, Shiny Objects: How To Avoid Distractions When You’re Trying to Find 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?” I swear, sometimes it takes less than 24…
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Because Nobody’s Going 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 we even start. When that happens, I have to trick my mind. And depending on what’s going on internally…
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On Second Thought, Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Gotten That Roku Box 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…
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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 would type “do this part later” or “make a mental note” or “remember to…” Only…what if you can’t do any of those? I know there was a time when I couldn’t capture and hold onto a…
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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 when it’s not paying credit card late charges, using Kleenex to dry dishes (don’t worry, it wasn’t the lotion kind – that would just be gross), or calling the township…
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