I Can't Control My Dust Bunny Rodeo

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Okay, I am declaring war on my housework and I need someone to talk me down.

The good Lord knows I have tried and tried but no matter how many hours I spend cleaning and picking up, it is twice as messy in half the time! It isn’t as much dirt as it is clutter.

I am tempted to give up and let it all go-just let my house become a sty.

What do you do in order to “keep order”?
Also, when does worrying about the way your house look become a matter of “Pride” which can spiritually harm you?

Trying to stay Joyfully yours,
 
You have to stay diligent at it.

When I worked at Shoneys years ago, one of the managers told me that it’s much easier to keep your work area clean than it is to clean it up (or something like that.

Likely you have a place or 2, or 9, that are “catch alls” and you’re like, “well, where else would all this stuff go?” Just about everybody has those type places. Get magazine racks, video storage places, throw stuff away regularly, etc. And then keep those areas clean.

You know all that. Oh and for that large area, or 2 or 3 that seems to not have been cleaned in years, take a month, form a strategy, and do it, take a couple weeks or so, and clean it, a little every couple days. Get help if you have to.
 
A large garbage bag helps. If someone can’t pick up their own things, they must not want them very much.
 
I’m not sure of your family demographics, but if your kids are old enough to start helping out, get them working! Your husband, too. The work is easier when there are two or three sets of hands taking turns.
 
excuse me, I had to go put on a pair of shoes, if I sit here with socks on they pick up dust bunnies so thick my feet become dangerously slippery. I wish someone could explain to me how, if DH has been gone for 3 weeks, this house gets so dirty, those sox, towels, dirty glasses, newspapers and piles of debris can’t all belong to me.
 
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mjdonnelly:
A large garbage bag helps. If someone can’t pick up their own things, they must not want them very much.
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My Dad used to tell us girls that and when that bag came out-we would run for our stuff like we were in the Olympics.
 
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excuse me, I had to go put on a pair of shoes, if I sit here with socks on they pick up dust bunnies so thick my feet become dangerously slippery.
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Actually, that is an EXCELLENT idea. Wear sock and slide around the floors until they are clean.
BETTER yet, I’ll strap a couple of scrub brushes on my shoes and wash them while I am at it.

Thanks PuzzleAnnie! :clapping:
 
I used to tell the kids, when the baby sticks to the kitchen floor it’s time to clean it. While talking on the phone I would spray the floor with the gadget next to the faucet, pick out some towels from the dirty laundry basket, have the kids slide around with the feet in the towels until the water was all picked up and the floor more or less clean.
 
You have to wait until all your children are out of your house…My baby is going off to college in the fall…I’m hoping to finally have a clean house…this will be after 23 years of parenthood and extreme dust bunny rodeo stuff…
 
in one year we got rid of 4 kids through marriage, college, own apartment etc. (including loss of 3 tax deductions), sold 5000 sq ft house with 3 fireplaces (huge dirt magnets), and got rid of dog and cat (both black and white, always had gray fluff in every corner), and moved into a new 2 bedroom double-wide. It was a first time experience of clean for me. We had an air cleaner attached to the furnace/AC with hepa filters, and nylon mats at the entrances to trap dirt.

I had not previously known that it could be possible to walk around the house wearing white sox, and sit down and the soles would still be clean. I had not known it was possible to breathe easily or go a day without allergy symptoms. I had not realized most homes do not have several empty pizza boxes under the beds.
 
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LynnieLew:
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Okay, I am declaring war on my housework and I need someone to talk me down.

The good Lord knows I have tried and tried but no matter how many hours I spend cleaning and picking up, it is twice as messy in half the time! It isn’t as much dirt as it is clutter.

I am tempted to give up and let it all go-just let my house become a sty.

What do you do in order to “keep order”?
Also, when does worrying about the way your house look become a matter of “Pride” which can spiritually harm you?

Trying to stay Joyfully yours,
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Well…I can always come over and take care of those “Dust Bunnies” in no time…
http://photobucket.com/albums/y113/Annie27/th_Animation01n.gif:D Now you should take pride in your work…are you a homemaker? If so that is your work and you should do all things as if you were doing them for the Lord!:yup:
 
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puzzleannie:
I had not realized most homes do not have several empty pizza boxes under the beds.
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My freshman year of college, my roomate and I would leave pizza boxes lying around. One time, a box was NOT empty, and after a couple weeks I noticed a trail of ants going from the wall to the pizza box (conveniently through my roomate’s bed also :eek:!!)

Well, I figured it was time to toss out the pizza. The ants didn’t go so easy. I remembered that they follow scent trails though, and that FIRE destroys their scent trails. So I burned the trail, and that seemed to work.

Ahhh, dorm life!!
 
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