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« on: July 30, 2001, 09:10:16 am » |
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Mine isn't. I've always been a terrible housekeeper. My desk tends to be the same way--it's either totally cleaned off, or a total disaster. I recently started the flylady program at flylady.net and am so happy with my house that I'm thinking of applying it to my desk.
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countrigal
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2001, 09:29:09 am » |
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Ok, what is the flylady program? Is there a way you can give a short description before I try to find out if I can access it from behind my firewall? My house is no where near as organized or clean as my office for one main reason - my husband. Any help is better than none!
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2001, 10:01:15 am » |
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You can probably get to it from behind your firewall--I did. I heard about it on a moms' list I'm on. Flylady assumes that your house is so messy you can't have anyone over without at least a day's advance notice--definitely describes my house! She sends you several emails a day, reminding you to do certain core tasks. As these tasks become habits, and you don't have dirt on every surface, she has you add things like slowly decluttering your home 10 minutes at a time. Some of her tips are more for working women (like me), some for stay-at-homes but I find that those can be adapted to my schedule without much trouble. Her motto is "baby steps" and "you are not behind, just jump in." It's kind of refreshing for me, because I tend to see the whole house as a post-tornado zone that won't be helped by my piddly efforts.
Note: this is *not* commercial as far as I can see--it costs nothing, you give them no info but your email address (I use my web email rather than work email address).
After a week, I'm already in a couple of routines that are making the house more habitable.
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2001, 10:03:03 am » |
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No, and I'm a FlyLady dropout.
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2001, 10:32:19 am » |
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You've GOT be kidding!
I need a WEEK's notice before I'll let anybody come over!
On the other hand, hubby and I both work MORE than full time and when we come home we've made a promise to take care of each other first, THEN the house. Meaning, that if one of us comes home after a horrible day, it's more important to give each other 15-30 minutes of attention rather than jump right into cleaning the bathroom, much as it may need it.
Fortunately, we have about the same tolerance level for clutter, so it gets to a certain point and we're both itching to get it cleaned up.
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2001, 10:53:40 am » |
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We just got ourselves a cleaner. I love my cleaner! she is so fantastic! She does three hours a week and does the kitchen and bathroom every week, plus the halls and stairs, and the living room or the bedroom.
It is worth every penny we pay her - she earns 2/3 of what I do per hour, but we only pay for when she comes.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2001, 12:04:10 am » |
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Organized?? What's that??
I used to find it easier to keep my workplace organized actually, but due to lack of space it has become more difficult. Home is just chaos. No matter how many little cubbyholes, boxes, bins & categories I try to make for stuff, there always seems to be stuff that just doesn't have a place....sigh...
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2001, 12:44:54 am » |
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Used to have a cleaning lady but gave hubby and I decided to give her up. She wasn't very good so we thought we would use the money elsewhere. Of course, now all the cleaning falls on me. (okay, hubby vacuumed the upstairs - only - last Friday so now he has "helped out").
Luckily, my husband is a teacher and will be home the entire month of August. Maybe if I make him clean the house throughout the month, he will reconsider and decide that it really isn't that expensive to have a cleaning lady after all.
My house is pretty organized but not as much as the office. For example, I don't store the canned goods in alphabetical order but everyone has their own basket at the back door for hats, etc.
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2001, 01:25:26 pm » |
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Ohhh... you make me miss my maid so much. I got spoiled for 2 years overseas while I had a maid. She was such a great help, I wish that I'd had her for the full 3 years I was there. It took me 1 year to convince hubby that it would be a good investment in us... we wouldn't argue over the housekeeping, I wouldn't have to do it instead of spending time with him, and we had a clean house still. She did everything! I originally just wanted someone to dust, sweep, mop, clean bathroom, but she refused to help unless she could do it all "the right way". She did laundry and everything. She came in 3 days a week and my floor was always so clean you could have eaten off of it. With a dog in the house that really says something! The best part - due to the difference in economy she was paid $60.00 every 2 weeks (oh heck... or was that a month? It was so long ago now!). For all the work, it was underpaid no matter what. But she and I were great friends so I was able to give her extras without her having to report it. (ie, she had a son who loved Walt Disney movies, so I'd let her borrow mine, then buy her one of her own if her son liked it).
Now I have to go home and do some cleaning on my own. But hubby's gone for a couple of days, so whatever I do will stay for that long at least.
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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2001, 01:50:59 pm » |
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If I could afford a cleaning service of some kind, I would, but if I had that kind of money I'd be staying home!
Donna, sorry to hear you dropped out of Flylady. I figure it's like exercise, something I'll do most of the time but occasionally will backslide on. But I have reached the point where I'm no longer willing to clean like a madwoman just because we're having company next weekend--I want to be able to dust and vacuum and that's it. Having a schedule to follow will make it easier for me, I think. The bathroom is already way less grungy--that happens overnight, literally, because we have hard water and it builds up rings etc. Just keeping that wiped down is making my house look so much better.
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I had a maid for a year and loved it!!! Gave it up recently when my company closed, but I definitely plan to bring one back. It cost me about $50/week ($60/time if twice a month) and it only took them about 1.5 hours for two girls. Why can't I clean my house in 3 hours??? When I consider how much I make per hour divided by the number of hours it takes me to clean (more like 10!) it's worth every penny!!!
Our house was the cleanest it has been in the ten years we've been married. People could actually drop by unexpectedly and I wasn't embarrassed. Neither my husband nor I are great cleaners, and we have so little free time (basically about 25 hours a week!) that who wants to waste 1/2 of those precious free moments cleaning???
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chris68
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I'm really happy to hear that I am not the only one in this situation, I really thought we were really bad at keeping house but seeing these posts makes me feel much better. I may not be organized, but it is clean, is my motto. We have such a small house to begin with that its hard to keep organized, but easy to clean.
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I think it is just "the cobbler's children go barefoot". You spend the whole day organizing the office, the last thing that you want to do when you get home is organize that, too.
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Gosh, I feel like Martha Stewart.
The public areas of my house MUST be clean at all times... simply because I can't even open the door for the pizza boy without being mortified of clutter. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a fanatic... I do my dinner dishes in the morning when I wake up. My bedroom is the tornado zone, we live out of the clothes dryer instead of our drawers... and for the love of God Almighty, DO NOT go into my husband's bathroom (I'm waiting for him to get some gangreen skin infection from the disgust in that room... I won't go near it, it's *HIS* bathroom )
My desk/office is the same way... I have to have some type of order to it, or I can't focus.
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But work has been so crazy ever since dear new Bossie came on board last fall, cleaning/straightening my house is starting to be almost pleasant because it's something I can control. Unlike people refusing to put stuff in my inbox, I can *control* what I put in my utensil drawer. Unlike the last-minute stupid requests from people, I can control when the laundry gets done at my house (and how it's done). Etc. The house is under control, unlike the office, which is apt to throw sh*t at my fan, no matter how I try to protect my fan, you know?
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