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Help - I can't do the slob thing anymore.

Thanks, all - was going to reply directly, but i thought it'd look like multi-quote hell...

the flat doesn't seem so depressing today (can't hear any mice) - but i have woken up thinking i don't think i want kids. I'm just too lazy.:eek::o

I will take Papingo up on her challenge, i think. And move the laundry basket into the bathroom (good call, aqua).

Last time we tidied, i did the bathroom. I always start there because it's manageable - but it took me two hours to scrub our damp walls. Mind you, it was lovely when it was done - but it didn't motivate me in any way to do anything else. I think my brain is broken - it just made me feel like i could coast on a wave of domestic smugness for weeks.:o

Ho hum...
 
i don't really buy stuff either, i have no money for it. plus the house is too small for lots of stuff. the only things i've bought recently are storage items like bookshelves and a cd rack.

i don't know what the solution is for you, chick. my fella is the one who insists that we do the cleaning, i'm much more of a slob than he is, but i do admit it's lovely sitting in a nice clean house.

e2a:
actually i will say it's a LOT easier doing the cleaning in a well-maintained house. we have lived in some right shocking places - plaster coming off the walls and mushrooms in the bathroom - which were a nightmare to clean, you could spend hours on it and it wouldn't really look that great. so if your house is a bit shabby, you could give your landlord some hassle about it before you start trying to reform your slobby ways.
 
aqua said:
this :)

I also am very ruthless with clothes, I can't wear them all, and often I haven't worn them for a year, in which case they get given to a charity shop :)
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But.. but... Investment pieces!

Five different sizes of much-treasured 'perfect' clothes! :eek: *la la la - not listening*
rennie said:
You need to start somewhere spangles otherwise it looks like you'll need to move!
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you're kidding. Moving really would mean tidying. never lost a deposit yet!:cool:
 
Mate- make up a bleach solution in a spray container, spray the bathroom walls.

Leave it an hour and then wipe it.

No scrubbing!
 
I love when the sun shines through the windows and the place is tidy, I get great satisfaction enjoying having everything boxed off and being proud it's my home. That is enough motivation for me to do it, but it helps being a tidy nut, without being anal about it.

We make all the mess in the world from time to time.
 
This thread makes me feel better :D

We're actually pretty tidy, I'd say. Think we both get pretty down and stressed if it's a tip. Washing up tends to get left until it's a 20 minute job, but other than that and the clothes on the bedroom floor (not mine!) the house is pretty clean. The carpets are fucked, but they were when we move in.

Move in two weeks to a biiig house, which oddly, should be loads easier to clean.

My only big clean up tip is to clear everything (apart from rubbish) into a pile on the bed, then tidying up from the ground up. That way it seems like you're making progress and isn't so disheartening.

If your washing up situation is totally fucked, buy new crockery and cutlery and bin the rest.
 
What about trying to do one bag of clearing out a day? Then it's not so boring.

I used to subscribe to some online de cluttering site and they gave you bitesized tasks. It did help me quite a lot because you didn't feel you have to climb a huge mountain all in one go.

Miss-Shelf did it too and she's really stuck to it and her place is really smart now. :cool:
 
ChrisFilter said:
If your washing up situation is totally fucked, buy new crockery and cutlery and bin the rest.
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^^ This! :)

Clothes washing is my hate, I just end up buying more instead of doing the washing. My underwear wash is 2 loads just for pants and fucking socks!! :eek:
 
Melinda said:
Stick some tunes on! And start making piles of alike stuff!
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^^

this. music is a must for me, then just bop bop bop along doing things. I don't have structure when I tidy, I'll be bringing a pair of jeans say upstairs and when there do whatever comes first in that room, until it leads me to another room for something, so I just do what's the closest thing to me to do and move around the house like that.
 
ChrisFilter said:
My only big clean up tip is to clear everything (apart from rubbish) into a pile on the bed, then tidying up from the ground up. That way it seems like you're making progress and isn't so disheartening.
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I've always done the bedroom like this, change the bed after you've tidied have a bath and it all seems worthhile innit? :)

My place looks like a squat atm in some ways, I've got boxes everywhere, bikes, dog toys, I was really good at tidying up before this boyfriend, now it's much more fun to sit watch a DVD and get stoned in the evening. :o:D

I can't leave stuff filthy though, washing up and take awy cartons wtf??:(

I'm pretty mortified when people come round at the moment, I know they don't mind but *I* mind, you have to want to do something otherwise there's no point in starting it.

Don't you feel so good when your place is looking clean and spotless? It clears the mind for real! :cool:
 
zenie said:
I'm pretty mortified when people come round at the moment, I know they don't mind but *I* mind, you have to want to do something otherwise there's no point in starting it.

Don't you feel so good when your place is looking clean and spotless? It clears the mind for real! :cool:
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Your house isn't dirty though hon - maybe a little cluttered - but I blame ebay ;) but tis always clean.

I get pissed off when I don't have the time to clean, or when things get a bit too dusty :o thing is once I start I can't really stop... and starting at gone 9pm in the evening would have me up til 12 cleaning :D (tis definitely a weekend task for me).
 
Numbers said:
Yes there is. Me. :) I get as much pleasure out of tidying than a lot of other things. I have 3 stages of tidying, there's the tidy, then the TIDY, and finally the Hollywood, that's when the house is perfectly clean & tidy and I go around and ensure everything is in place, that's when even the pen tin gets sorted and the beans and peas etc.. all face forward in their cupboards :o and not even single specs of seeable dust are safe.

My mam always told me my home should be ready to receive anyone at all times.

Sounds excessive but it's actually quite easy to achieve, once the place is clean it's only a case of having to do the small bits each day and once you get in routine you wont even notice you're tidying.
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Want to get married?

I don't care if you are a man or a woman.
 
Spangles - I can relate to this. I begrudge the thought of spending time cleaning when I could be relaxing, or enjoying myself, or sleeping. We don't have mice, but the place is shocking. It's the dirt that upsets me - I know things can be tidied, but it's keeping on top of dirt that I'm really awful at.

At the moment, we can't get to the dirt to clean it because of the stuff. But we have a plan. Once I've finished my degree next month we're getting a quote for the loft hatch to be widened (it's not big enough for a single cardboard box to fit through at the mo), and some wood put down in there, so we can start to box and bag everything we want to keep but don't use and shove it up there. Once we've done that everything else will surely follow. Slowly.

I'm not sure I'll have the motivation to keep it up though.
 
Hehe, I'm not bothered tbh. I'm a slob and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

If you want a clean flat though, fact is a load of your stuff will need to go in the bin. Think you ca handle it.:p
 
Vintage Paw said:
At the moment, we can't get to the dirt to clean it because of the stuff. But we have a plan. Once I've finished my degree next month we're getting a quote for the loft hatch to be widened (it's not big enough for a single cardboard box to fit through at the mo), and some wood put down in there, so we can start to box and bag everything we want to keep but don't use and shove it up there. Once we've done that everything else will surely follow. Slowly.
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and then you'll have a loft full of stuff! :p:D (not that I can talk I'm a terrible hoarder!! :o)

I love cleaning though! :D It's just having the time atm.

I think good storage (kept organised) is the key in a lot of places, if it's out of sight it's out of mind.

*Buys shelves*
 
I'm trying the "leave every area a bit tidier than when you left it" approach at the moment. So, when I get up from the desk, I take at least one mug with me, or empty the ashtray or something, and before I come back from the kitchen I wipe the stove down or wash some teaspoons.

Crap really does expand to fill the available space though, it's a good thing I can't afford anywhere larger really.
 
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