Help! I'm a slob and lazy

[argon091076]

Oh, another thing…

Please don’t call yourself a lazy slob. You have many more important things to do and cleaning should not control your life. Just do your best and try to set a day out of the week for a couple of hours to clean up. Everyday try your best to keep tidy. It will eventually become a habit. You will do things without realizing that you are…

God Bless!

 

[apricot_yogurt]

When I’ve had a terrible day and DH is home, I take the car and go shopping or adoration, and when I come home he will nearly always have tidied the lounge and dining room. So my tip for keeping the house clean is to flee!

This week I have thrown out bags and bags and bags of stuff for our local Charity Shops-I just have too much stuff for the house-I can’t put 100 books on a shelf designed for 50-so I have to get rid or they’ll end up on the floor.

I had to laugh at fly ladys suggestion to do a load of laundry every day. Thanks to our piddly little UK washing machine, I do at least 3 every day.

I am fighting a losing battle mostly, as my ds (The Destructor!) follows me around leaving a trail of carnage in his wake.

 

[auntieneeker]

I just want to say that I think that the fact that the OP is calling herself lazy and a slob is a good thing.

I lived for many years with the lie that I was a perfect housekeeper. When company was coming, I would need at *least *a full day’s notice, and then I would clean, and clean and yell, and clean. I would hide all of my clutter in boxes and bags and whatever to hide in closets, just making that problem worse.

I really was a slob, because, I had developed really bad habits of not picking up after myself and not finishing what I start.

An ancoholic has to admit they are an ancoholic before they can get help. Flylady has helped me to see that I have a tendency to get “sidetracked”, and really shows me how to keep the house clean in little 15 min spurts, and by establishing routines. If you are not sdetracked and messy (aka lazy slob!) like me, then flylady probably won’t help.

Just the fact that the OP has this major clutter issue and is even thinking of starting scrpbooking screams to me that she needs to start with the flylady system.

This truly has changed my life – and really was an answer to prayer.

 

[mariam1976]

i dont know what it is about keeping the sink clean but just the fact that the sink is shiny gives me the motivation to clean everything else… also, i have now started picking up after myself which helps me becos, i dont have much to clean now… as everything is cleaned as soon as it gets done…
its a blessing!!! and i am loving it.

it gets to be pretty addictive after a while so watch out for that!! the flylady keeps warning you not to be a perfectionist which is the best part as i feel happy about the fact that the house is in a decent condition instead of always focussing on the bad parts…

i have to say SHE IS THE BEST!!!