In this episode, one woman shows us how she keeps her home tidy and organized despite her lazy tendencies. These are cleaning tips anyone can follow for a more effortless home life!
Making it work is brought to you by credit repair.com start rebuilding your credit today i have a confession to make i’m naturally pretty damn messy not hoarders messy but definitely need advance notice of company is coming over messy a couple of years ago i realized i needed to make a change and that my messy environment was negatively impacting my mental health
Going to sleep and waking up every day in a cluttered environment felt like a double whammy starting and ending each day with a failure it had to stop these are the changes i made and have sustained over the last three years that have kept my mess at bay number one the extremely intentional with what you own a lot of people don’t like the idea of minimalism but
Becoming intentional about what i owned was the turning point in my transition from slob to nut slob i have a habit of acquiring stuff either through impulse purchases or adopting things when friends move out of state this means i had closets full of fishing poles and wading boots i have never fished in my life baking accessories i hate to bake and abandoned
Hobbies turns out i don’t have a real strong passion for wood burning this contributed to my overall messiness because even when i wanted to clean up my act all this crap i’d accumulated was working against me i ended up just moving piles from one area to another in an effort to tidy one weekend i decided i was done i took two cars full of perfectly usable stuff
To my local thrift store and i haven’t missed a single item since i also went through and digitized breed took pictures of a giant box of sentimental cards knick-knack stuffed animals and other gifts i’ve been lugging around with me for years i can still look at those items and read those cards if i’m feeling nostalgic but without the physical items filling up
My space i also curbed my impulse spending by deactivating my amazon prime and deleting my saved payment data for my most often used shopping sites now my environment is filled with the things i used constantly and nothing else number to create better systems a lot of my mess came from having inadequate systems around my house take my mail for example i had it
Absolutely everywhere phil’s important tax documents costco flyers and junk mail were strewn over my house because i didn’t have a system for anything incoming the first thing i did was collect my mail from every corner of my house sit down at my computer and opt for paperless billing every chance i had which easily cut the problem in half then i bought a small
Recycle bin that i keep near my front door everything that doesn’t require a response or need to be filed away doesn’t come in the house systems can be applied to any source of mess constantly piling dirty clothes in one area of your room put a laundry basket there to remind yourself to toss it in the washing machine when the basket is full have a certain coffee
Table that collects trash and junk get rid of the table or remove it farther away from the sofa so it doesn’t become a catch-all find mess hotspots in your home and create systems to circumvent the issue before it even becomes a cluttered trash pile number three don’t put things down put them away in the last few years this has become my spiritual mantra and just
Reduced actual cleaning time to a few minutes a day instead of an entire weekend every time i’m tempted to leave a half empty can of lucroy on a bookshelf or leave a pile of papers on the floor i tell myself don’t put it down put it away do i occasionally mess up absolutely but the amount of time i’ve saved by being mindful and choosing to be deliberate with how
I operate within my space has been a game-changer along the same lines i also take on a clean as i go mentality whereas before i operated with a clean eventually when i have to because of shame mentality maintaining is much easier than cleaning rinsing newly dirty dishes with soapy water is much easier than scraping off caked on old food once you realize the power
Of maintaining you’ll never want to go back to wasting an entire day off elbow deep and old messes these key things helped me transition from gross slob to functioning ninety-five percent clean person my mental health has improved significantly as of my finances i can now use my environment as an indicator of my mental state because i have the clarity to recognize
When i’m filling up my usually clean counters with dishes or when i’m using retail therapy to justify buying duplicates of items i already have plus the lack of impulse spending allows me to really focus on what i know to be meaningful to me and i’m able to interact with my environment as something that recharges me instead of embarrasses me staying organized is
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3 Ways I Keep My House Clean As A Reformed Slob By The Financial Diet
