10-15 Minute Cleaning Sessions (New Thread) - Page 22

[clutterwarrior]

Hello everyone....B I hope you are feeling a bit brighter and hope the interview went well.

Poetry I hope you are being easy on yourself. x

Oki take it easy while you have morning sickness...have you tried those seasickness bands around your wrist?

Today I decided to start keeping a diary of my symptoms...eg depression, headaches, etc....so I can try to work out if I am better being on or off the hormone replacement therapy!

I also have decided I need to make more effort to do things that are important to me in my day....things that lift my spirit.

So far today:

washed clothes

folded towels

made beds

made a salad for lunch

decluttered a lot!

made note of symptoms

prepared some of dinner in advance

To do:

cook the dinner

clean up kitchen

hang out washing...which will probably not dry due to the endless rain we are getting!

knit a bit

[*bejeweled*]

Good Morning. Thank you CW. I think I'm going to start part time work soon.
I like what you wrote here: I also have decided I need to make more effort to do things that are important to me in my day....things that lift my spirit. This is so critical. I'm going to try to do the same.

So far today I:
*made breakfast and
*rinsed the dishes and cleaned the counters
*took out the trash
*made the bed
*put away shoes and bags and cleared the table
*sorted the laundry and washed one load
*colored a mosaic awhile
*took DD to piano lesson
*returned library books
*cleaned out the refrigerator
*read awhile
*made dinner

I hope to:
*meal plan/grocery shop tomorrow
Edited by *bejeweled* - 3/3/12 at 5:17pm

[Katie8681]

You know what's kicking my butt, is the repetitiveness. I just washed the clothes and now I have to wash MORE CLOTHES AGAIN. The sink was clean and now it's dirty. The mail is off the table then it somehow stacks back up. Nothing is ever _done_.

Does anyone have suggestions? How do you feel "done" when it comes to, I guess I'd say, homemaking? I thought doing things 2-5-15 minutes at a time was going to make it easier, and I guess it does, but maybe if I did big dramatic cleaning/organizing I'd feel more of a sense of accomplishment? But then I burn out.  I dunno. 

So far I have:

Made and eaten breakfast, made coffee and am still drinking it  :)

Fed the animals

Gotten ds up and dressed, then re-dressed after (another) diaper blow out

Studied for about an hour, whilst entertaining ds

I need to:

Take bags of used disposable diapers to the trash

Clean cats' litter boxes

Get dirty clothes off my bedroom floor

Wash my and dh's laundry, not including delicates

Pick up 2 hotspots: the couch and the coffee table

Break down some cardboard boxes and drop them at the recycling center

Pull weeds

Edited by Katie8681 - 3/3/12 at 12:41pm

[*bejeweled*]

Hey Katie,
I look at it all as cyclical. Just like eating and sleeping. Just doing a little at a time...

[PoetryLover]

Daily:

Make Bed

Empty Trash

Scoop/Clean Litter Box

Feed Cats

Fold & Put away a load of laundry X 2

Wash and hang a load of laundry

Take Vitamins (& give DS his)

Wash Breakfast, Lunch and Supper dishes

Sweep Kitchen

Clean the Kitchen Sink and Counters

Wipe out Bathroom Sink

Read to boys

Quiet Time

Exercise

Prepare Tomorrow's Clothing, Diaper Bag, Personal Bag, etc.

Prepare Tomorrow's To Do List

5 Minute Room Rescue

2 Minute Hot Spot Control

Plus I'm going to attempt to get to the things I didn't get to all week:

From Monday:

Clean Freezer

Clean Toilet

Vacuum

Tuesday:

Clean Bathtub

Clean Bathroom Mirror

Wednesday:

Clean trash can

Clean toaster oven

Clip children's nails (DH)

Thursday:

Straighten Master Bedroom Closet

Sweep and Mop Kitchen, Bathroom & Pantry

Have DH pick up Vitamin D3 

 

Friday:

Declutter Desk

Quick Pickup

Spend Time on a Craft/Hobby

Saturday:

Clean top shelf of refrigerator

Change hand towel

Change dish cloth and towel

Edited by PoetryLover - 3/3/12 at 6:15pm

[EuroMama]

Today I:

Skyped with my family in europe. All my aunts, my mom, cousins. They were all at my auns house for her birthday! :)

Ate lunch

Nursed/changed diapers

Getting ready to have a bunch of boys over to play with DS1.

Tonight we're going to a bbq.

[OkiMom]

I haven't done anything this week.. I did catch the virus thats going around (for the second time, Im just talented) and very quickly realized our bathroom is really NOT big enough... Now my poor husband has it and is sick on his day off so I feel bad for him (he was planning on taking the kids out and spending some daddy/kids time with them- hes pretty upset he can't). My goal today is to do 3 15 minute sessions or as many as my body allows. Im not pushing myself right now, I feel to bad and its really not worth it.

[*bejeweled*]

Hello. I usually don't do much on Sunday, but so much needed to be done.

Today I:
*made breakfast and
*went to the grocery store and got gas
*made crockpot tortilla soup
*washed 3 loads of laundry
*changed the litter box
*gathered the trash
*made the bed
*made lunch
*wrapped birthday gifts for DD
*rinsed the dishes and cleaned the counters

I'm done and plan to relax the rest of the day and tomorrow too!
Edited by *bejeweled* - 3/4/12 at 1:59pm

[*bejeweled*]

Today is my "Do Nothing Day".

So far I:
*made breakfast and
*got DD off to school
*took out the trash and opened the windows
*talked for a long time to my dear friend
*went to an appointment
*walked

Hope you have a nice day too.
Edited by *bejeweled* - 3/5/12 at 6:12pm

[PoetryLover]

Thanks, clutterwarrior. 

Hi *bejeweled*!

Daily:

Make 1 Administrative Call, taking Notes

Complete 1 Administrative Task

Wash yesterday's dishes

Make Bed

Empty Trash

Scoop/Clean Litter Box

Feed Cats

Fold & Put away a load of laundry

Wash and hang a load of laundry

Take Vitamins (& give DS his)

Wash Breakfast, Lunch and Supper dishes

Sweep Kitchen

Clean the Kitchen Sink and Counters

Wipe out Bathroom Sink

Read to boys

Quiet Time

Exercise

Prepare Tomorrow's Clothing, Diaper Bag, Personal Bag, etc.

Prepare Tomorrow's To Do List

5 Minute Room Rescue

2 Minute Hot Spot Control

Plan Meals

Make shopping/errand list

renew library book

return library book

replace hand towel

replace dish cloth and towel

Vacuum living room & couch

clean toilet 

replenish toilet paper

Edited by PoetryLover - 3/5/12 at 1:31pm

[*bejeweled*]

Hi Poetry.

[EuroMama]

I feel stuck. I feel like whenever I get something clean, I turn my back and its back to square one.

I have dog hair on the rug, dead grass that gets dragged into the house by dogs, kids, people. Nomatter how many times a week I do it, one minute its clean, next we're back.

I feel discouraged and stuck today. lol

[Katie8681]

DS pulled up and kind of, sort of, stood today!! I have to drop the floor of his Arm's Reach Co-sleeper! Gosh he's getting big...  

So far I have:

Breakfast and coffee

2 loads of laundry

Emptied the dishwasher and cleared the sink

Vacuumed the kitchen and hallway (ds sampled kitty food and is a big fan)

Put Frontline on the kitties

Grocery shopping

Set beans to soak for dinner

2 minute hotspot (the couch) 

Ate lunch. Am trying not to skip it, it's a bad habit of mine.

NAK.

I plan to:

Bag some packing junk in the back hallway- 15 minutes

Take out trash

Pull weeds

Pick laundry off the bedroom floor- 5 minute room rescue

Find my cellphone, which is MIA and dead batteried

Put laundry away

Clean cat boxes

Wash kitchen counters

Make dinner

2 minute hotspot: coffee table

Euromama, I know exactly what you mean. It feels like bailing in a leaky boat. I am trying to do things that give me a rewarding feeling when they're clean and that I have some control over preventing piling up. DH has two end tables stacked sky-high with books and magazines that I don't know if I should sort/declutter and they're driving me nuts. I know it's irritating to have a pile that LOOKS random but is actually a stack of things you are using.

Edited by Katie8681 - 3/6/12 at 9:35am

[EuroMama]

@Katie - My husband has a shelf right by the front door where all of his stuff is piled up, mail, magazines etc. I hate how it looks, but I figure its his only place in the house (other than on top of his dresser) where he leaves things so I don't want to complain. I used to just clean it up, toss mail, magazines and it would upset him. Now I realized that doing that is a bit controlling on my part. So now I just ask him to clean it up. Sometimes he does, sometimes he forgets.

It drives the OCD person in me nuts. lol

[lucifugous]

Hi happy March all!! We are approaching Spring

Thanks for the ant advice two weeks back, I might make some of that bait. I laid down some plan borax but it hasn't helped. A friend who also had an ant issue lately (must be related to the super warm winter we've had!) said that it needs to be boric acid (borax is, I want to say off the top of my head, sodium borate) and brought some over so we laid that down where they seem to be disappearing to/from.

I have been so busy, just barely taking care of things around the house. I am swamped with work, and this is a good thing, but I really look forward to having time for a good cleaning session!! So far this morning I put clean dishes away, wiped down counters, and cleaned out the silverware drawer (which was also home to collected bottle caps I've been saving for my brother- it is truly a wonder there were no bugs in there :P).

I need to do a thorough vacuuming session next. The place is mostly picked up, but I need to get behind *everything* in the living room and then the usual run thru the bedroom. The place is small but with moving the furniture around I expect it to take twenty at my fastest pace. Perhaps I should get some coffee first...

I also want to sweep the kitchen.. and that should be sufficient for this morning!

Our drawers are at the full comfortable capacity, and I like being able to go a week and a half without laundry being crucial, since it is just DD and I and I use a laundromat so it's cheaper to use one of the big machines. I have about two paper bags full already of things I have set aside but not given away yet. We were just given three paper bags full of hand-me-downs in the size she's wearing now. So basically I need to sort thru a ton of clothes and cull ruthlessly because including these new clothes we probably have about double what will fit in her drawers. I need to cull some of my stuff as well, and hopefully pick up some new stuff. In addition to the clothes for donation that are just sitting in a tote, I have some electronics that need to be recycled.

Still want to work out a new furniture arrangement.

Still need to hang curtain rods.

I just don't see how/when any of this is going to happen

Fifteen minutes at a time, I guess.

[*bejeweled*]

Good Morning. Yes, it seems like Spring has arrived.
Today I:
*made breakfast and coffee
*got DD off to school
*took out the trash
*rescheduled an appointment
*rinsed the dishes and cleaned the counters
*wiped down the bathroom
*made the bed
*cooked dinner
*worked on my assignment
*rested
*took DD to horse riding
*made dinner

Have a good night.
Edited by *bejeweled* - 3/6/12 at 6:38pm

[Katie8681]

@Euromama: DH has a "study" as well as the living room piles!! lol... I'd like to declutter that, too. But I'm gonna attend to the beam in my eye before I pick at the mote in his, or however that goes!

Spring has sprung here, too! My backyard is beginning to flower, although it's green year-round so it's not like I've been in a winter wasteland ;) I'm so happy to be living where I am. The cool thing about my yard is that we are renting this house and weren't here at this time last year. The owners really did a beautiful job landscaping with perennials and there are things coming up now that I didn't even know lived in the garden- it's like getting presents!

So far I have:

Breakfast/coffee 

Taken a shower 

Bathed ds and wiped the side of the tub during (ooo multitasking)

NAK

Fed the animals

Dosed ds w/ibuprofen, teething sucks

I plan to:

Get ds to nap 

2 min hotspot: coffee table

Unload the dishwasher

Strip the bed

Wash matress cover and towels

Remake bed

Take blankets to the laundromat

Take dh's drycleaning in

5 minute room rescue: vacuum back hallway

Reply to an email

FIND PHONE

15 minutes declutter

2 min hotspot: island between kitchen and living room

There is more to do but this is an optimistic list as is  

Edited by Katie8681 - 3/6/12 at 8:06pm

[OkiMom]

Im pretty excited, our second to last shipment comes either tonight or tomorrow morning.. This one has our washer and dryer in it!! I can do laundry again without having to handwash. Yes, Im a dork, Im excited about doing laundry.. Im also feeling almost human as long as I don't over do it so Im going to try to slowly do a few things.. Plans:

-clean up the living room

-vacuum living room

- clean up the kitchen

-sweep/mop

-clean the girls room up

vacuum girls room

If time/energy:

get all the laundry together and seperate.. bag by load (that way its easier to get it done tomorrow!)

clean up master bedroom some

sweep/mop master bedroom

measure windows.

Edited by OkiMom - 3/6/12 at 4:18pm

[PoetryLover]

Daily:

Make 1 Administrative Call, taking Notes X 2

Complete 1 Administrative Task

Make Bed

Empty Trash

Scoop/Clean Litter Box

Feed Cats

Fold & Put away a load of laundry

Wash and hang a load of laundry

Take Vitamins (& give DS his)

Plan & Cook Supper

Wash Breakfast, Lunch and Supper dishes

Sweep Kitchen

Clean the Kitchen Sink and Counters

Wipe out Bathroom Sink

Read to boys

Quiet Time

Exercise

Prepare Tomorrow's Clothing, Diaper Bag, Personal Bag, etc.

Prepare Tomorrow's To Do List

5 Minute Room Rescue

2 Minute Hot Spot Control

Tuesday:

Clean Stove

Clean Toaster Oven

Pay/File Bills

Replace hand towel

Replace dish cloth & towel

Clean toaster oven

[PoetryLover]

Oki, congrats on your new washer and dryer! Our dryer broke, so I have to hang everything and we cloth diaper 2 little ones and have only one drying rack. I feel your pain.