House Cleaning/Home Cleaning
Cleaning your home can be a really therapeutic experience if you
go into it with the right attitude. Firstly, you have to achieve a Zen state of mind. You have to clear your mind
of the daily stresses that could get in your way. If you do not clear you mind, you will end up being so full of hate by the time
that you finish, the United Nations is going to have to sanction you.
Ooooommmmm
Next, you have to assure yourself that you are cleaning your house for you and
for no one else. It is you that wants a clean house and you are alone in the
world. If you feel that you are cleaning the house for your family, you will
resent them by the time you are done and they don’t deserve that.
You also have to have a healthy dose of disrespect. If you are running around
your house picking up other peoples belongings, don’t try to figure out their
importance. Just calmly throw them into a box and place them out of the way.
When that person is ready to look at them, they can make their own decisions
on where the items go.
Also, if you try to guess where other peoples belongings go, you are only going
to create acrimony when they have to constantly pester you with their "Where'd you put
this" and "I can’t find that".
Walk the Line
It’s also good to know where to draw the line. If you think that every single
inch of the house is going to be clean when you are finished you are sadly mistaken.
You have to know when it’s just better to close a door than to venture into
a disaster area and try to clean it.
This most often applies to your children’s rooms and to that space between the
laundry room and the basement rec-room. There will be a day where these spaces
are cleaned, but it will not be a day when anything else is cleaned. They are
separate entities and must be treated as such.
So indulge in cleaning. It is actually a great way to soothe yourself, learn
how to have some limits and to know what you want from your family and from
your time.
