One thing I really hate lately is a messy house. And with three little girls with short attention spans, a clean house can quickly and easily turn to chaos. So I have learned the power of the number 10. And just like how you count to ten to calm yourself down you can do little things in tens.
So say your house looks like this:
When my house and kitchen especially gets this bad, I don't want to do anything. No cleaning or cooking. I want to curl up and hope it just disappears. But instead of doing that, I take on this job ten at a time.
Ten dishes
Ten toys
Ten clothes
etc.
Hey and if you don't care how long it takes, take a ten minute break between your list of ten items. Some days, that's what I do.
And pretty soon, your house can turn back into a home:
It's certainly not perfect, but what house is with toddlers and toys?
So don't let a messy house overwhelm you. Take it in tens.
You'll feel better and I know a clean house can change everyone's mood.
Do you have a system for cleaning your home?
1 comment:
I need to be better about doing something like this. I do my best to keep clean the areas of my house that my toddler can't mess up (kitchen counters, table tops, my bedroom), but I typically don't clean up her messes until she goes to bed for the night or I know someone is coming over. I feel like it's a lost cause because as soon as I straighten a room, she's messed it back up and then I feel like my whole days is spent cleaning.
But there are days that I fall behind. My kitchen is currently in need of some TLC and I have no motivation to get up and clean it. So a trick for me is to plug in an air freshener (something I don't keep plugged in 24/7). Once it starts smelling fresh in my house I feel more motivated to clean because my house FEELS a touch cleaner by how it smells. Does that make sense? The mess doesn't seem as big when the smell of my house makes it feel cleaner than it actually is.
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