I cannot function properly with disorganization and mess
everywhere. My home is just over 3,000 square feet and about 2,500 of it is a
mess right now! Every room makes my eye twitch. Coming down the particle
covered stairs makes me squint and grit my teeth. I have roughly 6 baskets of
clean clothes in my bedroom waiting to be put away. Did I mentioned my
homeschool planner has gone… unplanned?
Yeah, my home is in complete chaos right now.
Overwhelmed? Definitely.
I don’t know where to start. When I finally do get some semblance of a cleaning
plan going…
I will start cleaning off my desk (because the piles have
taken over and the actual desk is no longer visible) and find a book that belongs
on one of the bookshelves. So I take the book to the bookshelf and find the
bookshelf to be in complete disarray. I start to reorganize the bookshelf and
figure I might as well dust while I’m here. So I go to the kitchen to get my
dusting supplies but of course when Mom enters the kitchen, the toddlers think it’s
snack time. After making some peanut butter and crackers, I walk into the
pantry to put the snack items back and notice the dryer has stopped running. I
pull the clothes from the dryer and put them in a basket to be folded but
realize I have no hangers with which to hang the clothes! Upstairs I go to get
hangers and realize I forgot to make my bed. I quickly make my bed and in the process
find tiny socks, hair ties and what I believe to be a partially eaten graham
cracker (?). While in the bathroom to put
/ throw those things a way I see the stockpile of diapers which reminds me
the downstairs basket (where we keep diapering paraphernalia) is running low
and needs refilling. I grab some diapers and head back downstairs to put them
in the basket. In the basket I find the post-its I’ve been looking for for over
a week! With joy I take my newly found post-its to my desk (and this time put
them out of toddler reach), which is when I realize I was supposed to be
cleaning my desk…
Yep. That happened.
I’m not the only one, right???
Totally not the only one! Sometimes I work very hard all day and then look back and realize I did not get one single task completed. I stead I got parts of several tasks done. One thing that helps me is to set a timer and make myself stay in one place and work at one task for that amount of time. I can make myself a note if I think of something or somewhere else that needs my attention, but I have to stay there and stay focused. When I do this, I keep a box or basket with me for all the things I find that belong somewhere else. When the timer is up, I can take the box/basket from room to room and put those items where they belong. Too bad I often forget how effective this process is. Instead I do as you described and get a little bit of everything and all of nothing done. :-P
ReplyDeleteThat is such a great idea! Next time I have a moment to clean I will definitely give it a try.
DeleteNot by a long shot. At least you made it back to the desk eventually. I often forget what I started out doing in the first place.
ReplyDeleteHaha. I do the same thing all too often. :)
DeleteI think you just described my day to a tee. One thing I have found that helps and I have to constantly remind myself is that I need to work from my list. Everything eventually gets on the list to get done. It can be overwhelming.
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