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Cleaning 1-10

post #1 of 51
6/10/11 at 1:48pm
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I remember awhile ago someone started a thread where the person above you assigned a number 1-10 and you had to clean for that many minutes.  I got so much done that night lol.  If anyone wants to do this with me  I'd love you forever.

 

 

6 minutes

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post #2 of 51
6/10/11 at 6:01pm

OK just spent 6 minutes cleaning the shower.

 

 

8 minutes.

post #3 of 51
6/12/11 at 6:00pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by clutterwarrior View Post

OK just spent 6 minutes cleaning the shower.

 

 

8 minutes.


Cleaned the kitchen for 8 minutes.

 

 

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post #4 of 51
6/12/11 at 6:23pm

ok I didn't time it this time, but about three minutes... still have more folding/ picking up to do but that little spurt was much more helpful than I would have thought. DD needs to go to bed and then there are several things that need a good 1-10 minutes of attention, lol.

 

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post #5 of 51
6/13/11 at 12:40am

Well I set the timer for 4 minutes, but ended up it took me 9 minutes to finish the job!  But thinking I only needed to work for 4 minutes was what got me started on the job. 

 

 

9 minutes

post #6 of 51
6/13/11 at 6:08am

Whew! 9 min spent making beds and starting laundry for the day.

 

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post #7 of 51
6/13/11 at 6:53am

Ok, 6 minutes unloading the dishwasher and making the kitchen sink pretty.

 

5 minutes

post #8 of 51
6/13/11 at 8:25am

Five minutes to finish folding once and for all!!

 

EIGHT MINUTES

post #9 of 51
6/13/11 at 8:50am

Awesome idea! 

 

Spent 8 minutes making DD's bed after washing her sheets and threw my sheets into the wash.

 

7 minutes!

post #10 of 51
6/13/11 at 10:03am

setting the timer for seven minutes.... that's how long i need to finish putting everything away and then we gotta get OUTTA HERE :)

 

5 minutes

post #11 of 51
6/13/11 at 4:45pm

5 spent shifting laundry, clearing dishrack, putting away random countertops objects.

 

3 minutes

post #12 of 51
6/13/11 at 5:42pm

Three minutes, I'm setting a timer on this one, LoL, let's see how much I can get vacuumed! I emptied the canister when I took out the trash earlier, the place is finally all picked up, etc. so this is the perfect time. Why wait until after bedtime when I can probably go over what really needs it and zoom thru the bedroom real quick too?! (I have a pretty small place!)

 

ETA: almost forgot :-P six minutes

post #13 of 51
6/14/11 at 5:59am

Done! I cleaned up my desk area... so cluttered!

 

Challenge: 8 minutes! :P

post #14 of 51
6/14/11 at 6:52am
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Originally Posted by clutterwarrior View Post

OK just spent 6 minutes cleaning the shower.

 

 

8 minutes.


Can I veer off course a little bit and ask how you cleaned the shower in only 6 minutes? The tub and walls are one of my most hated chores. I feel it takes me too long so I put it off alot. The walls are what I'm most concerned about. I'm wondering if a squeegee would be the quickest way to clean them.

 

If I remember when I get home from work tonite, I will look this thread up and participate.
 

 

post #15 of 51
6/14/11 at 8:40am
Love your avatar mamaboss!
post #16 of 51
6/14/11 at 10:27am

sweetjasmine- Maybe the idea is, do the best job you can in 6 minutes! You could do the good 20 or 30 minute clean next time that chore comes around, or the point could be shorter but more frequent attention paid to the area. Of course for some things this doesn't work so well - like the laundry I partially/ repeatedly refolded that DD had a very fun time throwing around each time since it wasn't put away! But eventually if your shower is getting attention almost every day six minutes would do it, right?? If it's in a sad state now, maybe just spend five minutes scrubbing one wall and then rinse and come back to it for another six minutes later or tomorrow!

 

Follow-up on my timed three minute vacuum: I couldn't even believe it- I moved lightning fast & got what really *needed* to be vacuumed in about TWO minutes! Used that third minute to swing back thru the high-traffic areas. Yes I will probably do the thorough (15-20 minutes in my small place, including moving some stuff around) vacuuming next time I bother to pull the thing out, but never again will I hesitate to do just three to five minutes of vacuuming if that's all the time I have, it seriously makes 90% of the difference that the longer vacuuming session would have made!!!

 

Eight is my favorite number! Time to finally give the kitchen (eight minutes worth of) that big wipedown it so desperately needs!!!

 

Your challenge: TWO minutes!

 

 

post #17 of 51
6/14/11 at 2:59pm
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Originally Posted by lucifugous View Post

 

 

But eventually if your shower is getting attention almost every day six minutes would do it, right??

 


 

 


That's exactly right... although a six minute clean is not a deep clean, it is enough to give it a quick spruce up.

 

Sweetjasmine, it's always been one of my most hated jobs too, and I couldn't work out how to get the mould off....but I have now found a way of getting the mould off the tiles, I use washing up detergent!  And I use a scrubbing brush. Then I get the shower hose and rinse it all off.  It actually works really well.

 

post #18 of 51
6/14/11 at 4:42pm

Thanks!!
 

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Originally Posted by *bejeweled* View Post

Love your avatar mamaboss!


 

post #19 of 51
6/14/11 at 4:43pm

2 minutes gathering recycling for pickup tomorrow! :)

 

5 minutes!

post #20 of 51
6/14/11 at 7:39pm

Okay, I washed dinner dishes for 5 minutes while DD put dishes in the dishwasher and DH put clean dishes away (from side of sink). Fabulous!

 

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