These were sitting on top of our TV. The video is one of many that end up piled there. At least the video has an actual reason to be in that spot.
But the lint brush? Really?
And the worst part is that I’m pretty sure that lint brush had been there for . . . several months.
Several months when hubby and I have been watching the DVDs of 24.
Nightly.
And we’re on Season 3, which means that we’ve watched seasons one and two already . . . making that 48 episodes that we’ve watched on that TV, and somehow I never noticed the lint brush.
I have issues.
My point is that it all works together. Even when I’m making a point to straighten, pick-up, etc. . . I still miss what should be obvious. But by having a Weekly Routine in place, one which makes me do more detailed cleaning tasks, I am able to compensate for my Selective Vision.
Make sense?
Amanda says
totally makes sense. i recently cleared off the bathroom counters, and have kept them cleared for 2 weeks now. its made cleaning the bathroom go a lot faster and easier!
right now i'm still working on conquering my daily list. hoping to get to weekly chores soon. just got to tell myself one step at a time or i'll overload.
Bonnie says
I get the point. I totally think getting the "routine"in order helps with the mentality of it all as well. If I don't empty the dishwasher in the morning it backs up alot all day long.
Tammy says
Since being married I have had to learn how to clean. I use to live on a farm, when I was younger in litterly a shack of a house, and after my brother left to live with his girl friend my father started calling on me to help him drive tractors, steer vehicles while he pulled them from one place to another do he could cut grass, plant in the garden and various other tasks that you do t normally see teenage girls doing. My mother never asked me to help her around the house because I helped my father. But my father would get mad at me because I never did anything in the house, that he saw.
After me and my husband got our first apartment I struggled with keeping the tiny place clean. It boggled him. But most of the time I felt it was rather clean. It was small and we had a lot of STUFF so most of the time I was just tidying the stuff and making it look neat.
Now we have a HOUSE, and a seven month old, along with my corgi daughter. And I have been doing better with keeping up on the cleaning, though my husband could beg to differ. Many times arguments start over the house being clean. I try to do my best in a days time, sometimes I hardly get anything done with trying to take care of little Sarah.
During the argument my husband is “cleaning” because I just don’t do it the way he thinks it should be done. It usually ends with a bigger mess for me to clean but he throws a tantrum like a six year old and actually makes a mess. He always apologizes after an argument though.
Today I did some vacuuming and dusting. What does he do, he tracks in particals from the track he ran on at work with his men. At least this time the mess wasn’t a result from a tantrum lol.
Leila says
That’s really sad. I hope things got better.