Tedious cleaning

cowboyup

cowboyup

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Does anyone ever feel like they don't like to start to clean (ie: vacuum, dusting, laundry, etc) due to the fact that when you start you feel like you have to do such a thorough job so you just don't do it?

Then that leads into organizing/color coordinating/ everything, such as clothes (socks and underwear included), the colored kids' dishes, piles of papers, etc.
and then you find yourself too overwhelmed to move...like you are almost paralyzed.

Or do you think this is just an excuse to 'not clean up' after yourself?
 
lurknomore

lurknomore

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I know in my case it ends up being an excuse. The thought of cleaning anything is so overwhelming to me that I practically never clean, it's really bad. Plus even when I do clean, I'm able to clear up trash and clothes, but anything else just gets pushed around so that I always have clutter of some type. I have no domestic bone in my body and zero organizational skills, at least when it comes to developing my own system of organization, I do better at work where there's already one in place.
 
mixedupgirl

mixedupgirl

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cowboyup said:
Does anyone ever feel like they don't like to start to clean (ie: vacuum, dusting, laundry, etc) due to the fact that when you start you feel like you have to do such a thorough job so you just don't do it?

Then that leads into organizing/color coordinating/ everything, such as clothes (socks and underwear included), the colored kids' dishes, piles of papers, etc.
and then you find yourself too overwhelmed to move...like you are almost paralyzed.

Or do you think this is just an excuse to 'not clean up' after yourself?
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Yeah I know what you mean.....it's never just one simple job. And everything always has to be done to a set standard.
I hate trying to tidy my bedroom because it always leads to hours of organising everything properly and then after a few hours in, I'm still sat in a messed up room with everything piled on the bed and I've spent too long looking over some old photos or paperwork I didn't know I had. But I do love the end result of sitting in a clean organised house.....just never lasts though.
 
J

jc972

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99% of the time when I start cleaning something I spend several hours on it until it meets my standards, be it washing my truck, cleaning my machinery at work, or cleaning a firearm, I have the habit of over thinking and over engineering it. I'm in the process of trying to stop though, just don't make sense anymore. Case in point, I just spent the last 5 hours spit shining my work boots when I could have been doing so much more.
 
squidgee

squidgee

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Its hard to start, but I usually find its not as bad as I initially thought it would be 10 minutes or so in.
 
mikebird

mikebird

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There is no 'spring cleaning' for me. Mum liked to do it. I do it all whenever I want to. I get excited whenever someone plans to visit and hate it when it's unannounced and the place is messy.

Last visit was more than a year ago, apart from my quarterly psychologist, which I tidy up for. Kitchen and main room are glistening.

Mum did all the cleaning for me. She cleaned all the hotels and pubs, cafes we've been in, before opening the doors for customers. I followed her hoover when I was 3 cuz it was noisy and I loved the big breeze it put straight into my face. That's OK when you're little.

Before 2006, Mum & Dad would visit my home and clean my place. Always. I loved my room when I was little. When I came home from school, Mum would dismantle it all and set my alarm clock right, bed washed, etc. I would watch, like I do when my nurses clean my bed in hospital.

I liked the hoover someone used in our TV room, which became my second bedroom in hospital, most time spent there when finished on my therapies, always eating in there. All the others ate at their bed bays. Just a few came to visit the TV room and I welcomed them all. Patients mostly stayed at their beds

It's only ever tedious if I have more to do. Some cleaning of my Apple Mac to carefully get rid of things left around to improve performance. My best friend is my car. Got some fresh oil today. My Mac is my friend
 
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Lea

Lea

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I had that aversion to cleaning most of the time, since I was a cleaner :). But when you´re in your job, you can´t escape it, so you have to go through it. Bit by bit.. I tried to measure it by hours, not by things to do. Like you know that in 3 or 4 hours it will be over, so that calmed me a bit. I usually had 2 cleanings a day, for example 4 or 5 hours in the morning, and 2 or 3 in the afternoon or so. And you do enormously lot of work during that time. Because you have to.. if I only did at home what I did in my cleanings.. but I don´t.. we people are so lazy if we don´t have to work. I only do those things most necessary but don´t bother with too thourough cleaning. Which I did in Germany for people very often, because they have a perfectionistic nature and also it´s easier if you don´t have to do it yourself. Although some were helping a lot too.
 
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