Well, it’s certainly been a while since I posted hasn’t it? I’m sorry about that. If you are “following” I didn’t mean to leave you hanging.
I have discovered that housework is a myth. Well, not housework actually, but the DOING of it, and the TIME CONSUMING nature of it.
It does NOT take time to do housework. Just DO it. Don’t let it pile up, and then do it as you go through the house and then, voila! , it’s done.
I know this to be a fact because for some reason last week I did a ton of laundry. And since I hate to put the clothes away, I neatly straightened them on the guest bed, and left them there. For a week.
Perhaps I was hoping that the laundry fairies would come by and do it for me, but that did not happen. Since I refuse to spend the weekends cleaning (because I grew up spending weekends cleaning) I HAD to leave it over the weekend. Oddly, no one said anything. Maybe they were scared.
I told James that I had a lot to do this week, namely laundry. He seemed to understand.
Monday I got up and worked out (that was harder than ANY housework I’ve ever done) and came home and did the whole breakfast thing and then began the task of “housework”. James was working in his office as well.
Maybe 30 minutes later he came in and we chatted about something, and he said he wouldn’t bother me, he knew I had lots to do. At that time, the only laundry left on the bed was socks. I informed him that I only had the stuff on the bed, and what was in the washer (and a pile or two waiting in line) and then I was done.
He looked around and said “What happened to all those clothes? “. I told him they were done, and he was quite impressed. I was too, actually because they’d been in the same place for over a week, and they were increasing almost daily. Before long, we would be overrun.
30 minutes, THIRTY. Not all day, not all weekend. 30 minutes.
Housework does NOT take forever, if you just start. Or clean as you go, like in the kitchen.
I hate doing bathrooms too, but not as much as putting clothes away.
Now I know, just start it and it will finish. Kind of like exercise. Get to the gym, and results will follow.
