Bite-sized cleaning community
Jun. 14th, 2011 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
untonugganI don't know how I missed jumpuphigh 's wonderful community before, but ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
bitesizedcleaning is quite wonderful. It encourages me to do what all the occupational therapists kept telling me to do...which is do short (5/10/15 minute) segments of cleaning rather than my usual monthly exhausting spurts. (I basically tried to do all the things. All at once.)
Typical cleaning schedule for me before: Hm, I should dust the bedroom because my partner and I are both allergic to dust and there is suddenly a lot of that around. Oh, but first I have to declutter the dressers. Wait, now I've done this I need to shred these papers. And the floor is dirty too, I'll swiffer it. Hm, that means I should wash the rugs. Now that I've done all this, the sheets probably have dust on them. I know, I'll change the sheets, too. Now that I'm doing laundry anyway, I should gather all the dirty clothes and sort them...except I seem to have disintegrated into a puddle on the floor. Whoops.
Anyway, hopefully the bite-sized schedule will really help break this trend. I haven't figured out what my "touchstones" are yet, but I'll ponder that this week. For now, I am going to try to clear some clutter off my desk...for five minutes. Maaaaybe 10, but after a break in between.
Thank you so much,jumpuphigh !
jumpuphigh 's wonderful community before, but bitesizedcleaning is quite wonderful. It encourages me to do what all the occupational therapists kept telling me to do...which is do short (5/10/15 minute) segments of cleaning rather than my usual monthly exhausting spurts. (I basically tried to do all the things. All at once.)Typical cleaning schedule for me before: Hm, I should dust the bedroom because my partner and I are both allergic to dust and there is suddenly a lot of that around. Oh, but first I have to declutter the dressers. Wait, now I've done this I need to shred these papers. And the floor is dirty too, I'll swiffer it. Hm, that means I should wash the rugs. Now that I've done all this, the sheets probably have dust on them. I know, I'll change the sheets, too. Now that I'm doing laundry anyway, I should gather all the dirty clothes and sort them...except I seem to have disintegrated into a puddle on the floor. Whoops.
Anyway, hopefully the bite-sized schedule will really help break this trend. I haven't figured out what my "touchstones" are yet, but I'll ponder that this week. For now, I am going to try to clear some clutter off my desk...for five minutes. Maaaaybe 10, but after a break in between.
Thank you so much,
jumpuphigh !
no subject
Date: 2011-06-14 08:25 pm (UTC)You are very, very welcome.
no subject
Date: 2011-06-15 01:37 am (UTC)And I'm so proud of myself - I saved energy by beginning to declutter my desk sitting down. Mostly I just listed some things on freecycle and threw out garbage. I can now see the surface of my desk.
PROGRESS!
no subject
Date: 2011-06-15 02:45 am (UTC)I love the network page. I find so many interesting posts that way.