Housework Motivation Thread

curlyhead

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 5:34 pm

Housework time:

Todays goals are to clean the kitchen, wash 2 sinks of dishes, straighten living room and living room again (they never stay cleared with kids around) clear study, wash a load or 2, if time fold laundry and straigthen the kids room. I plan to spend about 90 minutes. Will post when done.

superjew

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 5:58 pm

I made a list of all the things I want to organize in my house & try and take one extra thing each time I do regular clean up. But I don't always have strength so for now I'm doing one thing extra a week.
For tonight I need to wash the few dishes/clean up the toys & wash the dining room floor.
I honestly have NO strength tonight. I need a REAL positive push! Someone? Plz!

mini

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 6:21 pm

My list is as follows

Finish dinner
cleanup counters
Wash dishes
clean floor
Fold laundry

Thanks for opening this thread

michal817

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 6:34 pm

Done:
2 loads of laundry
Put away clean dishes (milchig and fleishig)
Straightened up living room

To do:
Make dinner
Wash dishes
Clean counters

Mommy F.

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 7:26 pm

folded 4 loads of laundry and then put all the folded clothes in each person's drawers.

curlyhead

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 7:28 pm

Just as I clicked the submit button a friend called me regarding doing her a favor which I previously offeref. so I spent an hour on that. My biggest problems are motivation and I get very easily distracted.

Meanwhile in the past 45 min I :

picked up the hallway and living room floor,

Milk kitchen- dishes, counters, floor

Meat kitchen - dishes, counter, table, high chair, floor

Put a load of towel in the washing machine.

Now trying to decide whether to do the kids room or fold the piles of laundry

bigprincess

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 8:05 pm

Ok today I was better than yesterday.

Organized and cleaned the master bedroom
Washed and dried the dishes and put them away
Did the laundry (washed only I still have to fold)
Cleaned the kitchen (it's already dirty again)

Tomorrow I'll try to be even better!

TranquilityAndPeace

Mon, Nov 14 2011, 8:33 pm

Before I go to bed I will:

Clean the entire kitchen
Fold and put away the 2 loads I just washed

OTHERWISE, I may not log onto imamother for 24 hours!!!

Okay, time to lift myself off the couch....

5*Mom

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 9:31 am

I try all day to put away
The Messy things from yesterday
There must be a conspiracy
For I can hear them laugh at me
It matters not how hard I slave
The stuff refuses to behave
No sooner have I made it neat
And think I finally have it beat
I turn my back for just a minute
My clean house has chaos in it!
I look on in shock and sorrow
Maybe I'll just clean tomorrow

I wrote this many eons ago. Alas, not much has changed in this department.

5*Mom

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 9:33 am

Oh dear me, I've found a bunch of them hiding in my computer:

I've never been so motivated
Practically inebriated
When it's laundry I must do
The inspiration bursts right through
I should be cleaning now, I should
My writing's never been this good!

I find it hard to concentrate
This laundry does not motivate
Perhaps I should elaborate
I'll just sit down and write a short poem

Two hours later I despair
Of ever cleaning up in here
Surprisingly, I do not care
I'll just sit down and read a long tome

sneakermom

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:34 am

This is a great thread!

And zaq being on imamother does increase democracy! Or at least our version of it. LOL

So goals for today:

1. Sleep. (Yeh, I need to focus on getting some sleep instead of klutzing away the hours)
2. Supper
3. One load laundry

I'm working later so that's it for today.

TranquilityAndPeace

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:37 am

5*Mom wrote:

LOL! Please submit that somewhere, I really like it!!

TranquilityAndPeace

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:39 am

This thread inspired me to even remove the grates from the stove top and wash it- something I would normally only do for Shabbos. It's so nice to have a sparkling stovetop behind me as I eat breakfast today- thank you:)

groisamomma

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:43 am

Why isn't any of the motivation here rubbing off on me? Nothing I wrote in my first post two days ago got done and now I have all that plus piles and piles more.

Does anyone else HATE sweeping?

Hatemywig

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:50 am

Today:

Put up Meat stew in the slow cooker

Fold the piles of laundry decorating the couch

Do more laundry

Iron

Wash & Dry Dishes

Bake Kugels for Shabbos

Roche

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 11:12 am

awsome thread! its only 9:57 and already I:

-did milchig and flieshig dishes
-cleared away breakfast
-threw in load
-took out load

now I wanna finish packing away the outgrown clothing
finish organizing my closet
fold the laundry and hang up the load thats in the washer
straighten up living room

I think thats pretty high expectations but lets see what Ill get done. not feeling too good either sooo... Confused

cranberry

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 12:41 pm

Great thread!

So far today I: put a load of laundry in the washer and dryer and another load in the washer.
Loaded the milchig and fleishig dishes into their respective dishwashers, and set the timer on each so that I won't forget to run them after the washing machine is done.
Made a dent in the toys all over the floor.
(Spent too much time on the computer.)

My goals for the rest of today are to:
Finish the laundry and actually fold both loads.
Make a menu plan for the next two weeks.
Go grocery shopping.
Finish clearing off the floors.
Vacuum.

Roche

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 12:59 pm

yay! I organized my closet and packed away the outgrown clothes, got a little side tracked along the way organized my kids shoes which was good bc there were shoes which needed to go into the outgrown containers. organized some toys and went through my stash of next size up clothinbg where I found very much needed pjs for ds. bh got alot done but still need to get to the laundry stuff. feeling alotr better too bh Smile

curlyhead

Tue, Nov 15 2011, 6:42 pm

Cleaning lady is here and I work harder the day she comes to pick up and clear surfaces so she can clean.

So far I straitened bathroom. living room and Hallway (still need to put folded laundry away)

Meat Kitchen- cleared table, counters, floor. wiped down high chair, chairs, washed a few dishes and pots

Milk Kitchen - wash breakfast dishes, cleared and wiped down counter, cleaned stove top, cleaned under countertop oven, washed the wall which was horrible.

Now it is time to clear the study, and bedrooms so that they can be vaccumed by the cleaning lady and put away folded laundry..