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Cleaning for Paula – Following My Own Messy House Checklist

November 4, 2013 By Dana White | 11 Comments

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Paula's coming! Time to clean! at ASlobComesClean.com

No time for a long post. I’m exhausted.

Big things are going on here at Nony’s house this week. I can’t share exact details yet, but I will soon.

Basically, I needed to clean. And I needed to stay focused. So I printed out my own How to Clean a Messy House checklist, and got to work.

Step One: Take a deep breath, get out your calendar and some paper, sit down at your table . . . and be realistic about how much you have to do in the amount of time you have.

I did this last Thursday, because that was when I found out Paula was coming. I had four days to be ready to let her in the front door. I had a lot to do, but nothing compared to what it would have been like pre-blog. In fact, pre-blog, I probably would have had to tell her she couldn’t come.

As long as I could declare the master bedroom (and the boys’ room) off limits, I felt like I had plenty of time to get the house ready.

Stay tuned this week as I share details about working through the rest of my Steps to Clean a Messy House (and Get It Ready for Guests) checklist. You can see the full post and printables here.

 

Clue #1: It’s not Paula Deen.

--Nony

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  1. Kristy K. James says

    November 5, 2013 at 3:21 am

    Very good tips. I’ll be using some of them this month. 🙂 I’m going to assume that your Paula is someone in the writing industry. That or Paula Abdul…the only other famous Paula I can think of at the moment. 🙂

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  2. Kate says

    November 5, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    I think Paula is your mom or sister?

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    • Dana White says

      November 5, 2013 at 12:52 pm

      Nope!

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      • Naomi says

        November 5, 2013 at 5:26 pm

        Mother in law.
        Or bestie from high school.

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  3. Kim says

    November 5, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    Great post. I find I get stuck when the next thing on my list is something I really don’t have the energy or desire to do (like mop the vast kitchen/entry/mudroom floor). I stall and everything below it on the list gets stalled as well. I’ve learned to skip whatever that item is until I suddenly have that burst of energy that makes us able to conquer anything. Then I drop whatever I’m doing and mop that #!%* floor!

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    • Dana D says

      November 5, 2013 at 4:01 pm

      awesome advice! I too can get stuck on my list one on thing that seems unmanageable, but then can’t move to the next thing because that one isn’t done. I need to work on the “skipping” part.

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  4. Hadley says

    November 6, 2013 at 1:14 am

    Are we allowed to guess? Is it Paula Jhung? You guys sound like peas in a pod.

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    • Dana White says

      November 7, 2013 at 10:41 am

      I’d never heard of Paula Jhung, but I looked her up and I can see why you would think that!

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  5. Paula O'Connor says

    July 31, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    It’s not me it is?!? I wasn’t planning on any trips… and we’ve never met… ha ha actually when I first saw the post “cleaning for Paula” I thought you may have thoughtfully prepared a cleaning checklist just for me! As it seems that is not in fact the case maybe its a niece?

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    • Paula O'Connor says

      July 31, 2014 at 10:27 pm

      Seeing now that this is a past thing.. ha ha oh well

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      • Dana White says

        August 1, 2014 at 7:54 am

        Ha! Love it!

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