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There are the three scrapbook challenges under VSBN and the HYCCT challenge. Monday is usually my cleaning and laundry day. Laundry I will do, but cleaning?.......I have a tiny home (1200 sq. ft. and 1 bathroom).....but I could have my kids help me this Saturday morning....and I clean each week so it isn't that bad.....
I don't have any tiny people to pawn my cleaning off on, it's good for them! I negotiate with myself with my cleaning I just try to break it up one or two things a day and then craft!
Monday is cleaning day here too! I love it when it's also a day off work and I can get all the house stuff done in the morning. I always feel I have at the very least to dust and vacuum, plus get the laundry started, because too much dust around the place will affect my rhinitis. But washing the floors is definitely negotiable ;-).
Oh my and see, I can't stand a less-than-clean floor! I am always sweeping them and I vacuum and wash them every week. I think it is because I am barefoot so much and it bugs me to feel little bits of stuff underfoot.
Now dusting...that is one chore I would happily pay someone to do! Every time I dust, I sneeze and sneeze and my nose runs and by the time I am finished I feel like I have a cold!
Friday is the big day here but I am constantly cleaning something somewhere. This way if we have people over on a weekend I can fake that we are "so clean all the time" :cool:
LOL Lydia. That was the theory I was told as a child. Been doing wash since I was 11 and other stuff earlier.
Welllll...I could say it doesnt make sense to vacuum till after you craft....all those cuttings and glitter on the floor....;)
Lol you're kidding right? Well dust doesn't move so it will wait for you. Today's is Thanksgiving in Canada, but we had our family dinner yesterday so I am doing my regular Monday laundry.
Complete a challenge
Clean a little
Complete another challenge
Clean something else (or start a load of laundry)
Complete another challenge
Complete another challenge
Complete another challenge, etc.
That way, you have done both and be very proud of yourself over how productive you were today!
I think part of my issue is a bit of guilt. I am a SAHM but my girls are in school all day (they leave at 7:45 and don't come home until dinnertime when I pick them up from sports practices) so I have quite a bit of time. I do volunteer work throughout the week, cook, laundry, etc. but really it is easy to put off cleaning when no one is ordering me to do it! DH goes to work all day 10+ hours and so I feel funny sometimes telling him, "I stamped" when he asks what I did that day. He truly doesn't care, though, so the bit of guilt is coming from me! He is so awesome, he says I earned it because I "work" evenings and weekends, too, and when the girls were very little (they are teens now) around the clock!
For me cleaning always wins. I work full time and ve a limited amount of time. So I just do it. I find if I don't make myself get rolling on a Saturday I could fritter the whole day away. So I get up have a cup of coffee the make myself clean. I get done early and have the rest of the weekend to do fun stuff.
__________________ Bev
Organized People are just too lazy to hunt for things!!!
"Do more of what you love" is something that I've struggled with over the years, with self-inflicted guilt and the thought that other things are higher priority. At this point in my life, I've come to the conclusion that I've wasted a LOT of time worrying about the wrong things! DO MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE!!!
You know, when my three girls were all under 5 and at home with me all day, all the time, I actually did a LOT during the day - cleaning, cooking, playing with them, errands, etc. I think it is because I had limited time for each thing, so, like you, I just did it!
I do usually clean each Monday, though, and it takes me just a couple hours. I just didn't want to do it today because of all the fun challenges!
I have to admit...usually, crafting wins out here, unless it's REALLY bad...but not this month. :( I'm getting ready for company for my brothers wedding at the end of the month, so haven't had much time for playing cause I have to do that cleaning I keep putting off as well as a few other things not to mention get a shower planed for him and his wife to be. *sigh* This is the 2nd year we've had a wedding in the family that kept me busy most of the summer and fall getting ready for it...can't WAIT for it to be over with, so maybe I can find a little play time! ;-))
Easy peasy ---- stamp!!!
It's just me and the hubs ... weekends (unless something major is going on) are meant for crafting (for me and watching sports for him)!!! Since it's just the two of us we usually pick up the house during the week and vacuum and dust one evening. My stamp room is in the basement so laundry is a breeze!!!!
This advice is from one 'burg girl to another!!!!
__________________ ~Hope Angotti
Last edited by MrsAngotti; 10-13-2015 at 04:24 AM..
Oh my, I would LOVE to go to a wedding! There hasn't been one in years in my family, although it is beginning to look promising for my cousin. I just love the dancing and music and happiness and love. Of course, that is the fun part....it sounds like you are involved with the organizing and planning and hosting involved with weddings. As much work as that must be, I hope your efforts pay off in a great time for you and the guests....and then you can let the creativity fly!
Haha! My parents did that as a Christmas gift to my brother and his wife. They both work full-time and have a three year old and 11 month old twin boys. And my mom hired a local woman to clean 30 years ago (she still comes weekly!) because my dad likes things FAR neater and cleaner than my mom was willing to do!
Another thing I forgot to say....FACT:~ Dust is a protective coating for furniture! So when it gets so thick that a vase will bounce back when dropped on the table just roll it up and use it for quilt batts. Once a week call the local construction company to bulldoze all excess 'stuff' out onto the deck. What is light will blow away..what is edible the birds will get ..and whatever is left over can be swept through the cracks under the deck!!! My story and I am sticking to it!!!!! LOL
Oh my, I would LOVE to go to a wedding! There hasn't been one in years in my family, although it is beginning to look promising for my cousin. I just love the dancing and music and happiness and love. Of course, that is the fun part....it sounds like you are involved with the organizing and planning and hosting involved with weddings. As much work as that must be, I hope your efforts pay off in a great time for you and the guests....and then you can let the creativity fly!
Well, I'm not really doing much for the wedding, just in charge of the shower (I'm not in the wedding thankfully, but my niece is and she isn't able to afford the shower...so I got stuck with it LOL)
I had to make the invites...and favor bags...and a few decorations, so I've been busy and have been able to play with my toys...just not doing what I WANT to do, which gets old. ;-))
Between cleaning, and canning earlier this fall, and getting the shower stuff made and games planned, along with food...I'm pretty much ready for it to all be over! LOL Last year I helped another niece plan her wedding because she lost her Mom earlier in the year to ALS...so I was a stand in Mom I guess, and that kept me busy last year, so I though I'd have a easier year this year...and then this came up. *sigh*
I'm sure looking forward to two weeks from now...things will be over, and people gone....and I'm going to either crash or lock myself in the basement at my craft table the rest of the week! ROFL Least that's my hope...I may have forgotten how to make cards by then. ;-))
For me, cleaning is a project...I have to be in the mood to do it. I live alone, so no one makes demands on my time.
I saw a sign several years ago, and decided that my creativity must have it's time: "A Clean House is the sign of a Wasted Life"
It's not messy or really dirty, just don't drop in unannounced because my shoes are in the entry hall and the mail is on the dining table. The kitchen is only perfect when guests are coming.
STAMP! by all means enjoy your creativity!
REAL dilemma! Clean my house or stamp?
