Cleaning: no matter how it can be
Not everyone likes cleaning. It is not the most pleasant job there is to do.
In my previous blog I described how it came to me that I haven't cleaned for a very long time. I had no energy for it, and after a while you simply do not have any overview of the situation. You avoid receiving visitors and you are ashamed of being ashamed if someone comes across the floor. This is my #YoorsCoronaPositiveChallenge story.
Change of food makes food eat
Nowadays, my boyfriend and I stay with my parents just about every weekend. My mother has always been very proud of her home and its cleanliness, but because of her work and a burnout it often didn't seem to brush thoroughly. Not that an outsider would notice much of that at first sight, because it was always neat, but still.
I then decided to take care of the cleaning while she was working in the morning on Monday. Dusting, vacuuming, washing out fleece blankets, mopping,... - Everything. - Yeah. I would have spent a whole morning working on it, but I was proud of my work when it was done. The most important thing, however, was that my mother was very satisfied with it.
I noticed that I was also very relaxed there, in a clean house where everything was neatly in place, no crumbs on the ground, no dishes in the sink,... After a few weeks, I got the click in my head telling me that things had to be different at my home.
Corona & Clean Mama
Since the beginning of March, a large part of Belgium has been almost permanently confined to their homes. I am at home anyway because of disability related to my depression , but now also on weekends, which means I have more 'free time'. I decided to do research on cleaning. I was looking for a way to clean in steps, and not all at once. I just don't pull that, there's way too much coming at me. After a while intensively Googling, I ended up at Clean Mama , and I do not exaggerate when I say that a world has opened up for me. Becky (or Clean Mama) has drawn up a cleaning schedule where you do something in the household every day, so that your house looks all year round. Her website offers a lot of information, including, for example, how to make an all-purpose cleaner yourself, or dishwasher tablets. I'm really curious to try some of her recipes.
Tried and Successful
By now we are about three weeks later, and our apartment has not been so neat in years: no layer of dust on the cabinets or on the television, a fresh bouquet of roses on the table instead of a bunch of crumbs and junk, clean floors, and the only thing in the sink is an empty bag of my coffee in the afternoon, but it will be washed off soon. I have to admit, I had to clean really hard, and I'm not kidding you when I say I sanded over half an hour to get my gas fire cracked again, but I did. The first week I was really pumpaf after my daily tasks were done, because - although they are small tasks - it was still a lot of work, since I had postponed everything for so long.
Ik vond het ook fijn jouw ‘Positive Corona challenge’ blog te lezen en mijn stem te mogen uitbrengen. Zou je mijn blog ook eens willen doornemen aub? Het kan ook geen kwaad eventjes op dat ❤onder het blog te drukken, Hihi.
Veel succes nog met de challenge. Mieke
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