So I have been using FlyLAdy to build a new routine to clean with. Who am I kidding. I hate to clean, I am building my first routine of keeping house. I hate to keep house. I work so hard and it feels like I am running in circles and getting nothing accomplished. Well, I decided to try FlyLady. Well, my kitchen is very quickly coming together pretty and clean.
Just to recap, I did clean my sink on the first day, but this was my counters. And there was nothing special about that day, this was my counters everyday.
I promise that I did not move things around the room to make it look good. Here is another day and the entire kitchen.
suddenly, my kitchen is feeling spacious. I take up the whole counter when I make dinner now, because I have the entire counter to use. I am not getting stressed when the kids bring their bowls to the sink, because there is space to put them. So what if food gets on the counter, I am going to clean it off no matter what.
What I am liking about FLY LADY:
First, it is not “go clean your house and then keep it up”. Her way is start a routine a little at a time and before you know it, your house will be sparkling. My attitude has always been to exhaust myself and scream as I would try and deep clean a cluttered house, then be exhausted and never keep it up or get back to it.
Second, you start with manageable accomplishments and somehow I always do a little more.
Third, I have been working hard but the good kind of hard. I put in 100% and got 100% accomplished. Usually, I feel like I put 100% towards my goals and got 10% accomplished because I was moving with no direction and just mostly chasing my tail everyday around this house.
And forth, I like the smell of bleach and never knew it. I can’t believe how good my reflection looks in my sink. I didn’t know a toilet could be pretty. I love the look of shock when my husband comes home.
~trish
Trish the kitchen looks great and i think u r doing a great job. love SIL
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I love FlyLady! I am NOT a B.O. ( born organized) person.She has blessed me so much! Bravo to you for showing the pictures of before, I thought surely I was the only one who had counter tops that looked that way. :)
Hi, Trish. I found you over on the MFW Blog Roll, and I plan to follow you now. :^) I hope you can stop on over at my place, too: http://tinahollenbeck.blogspot.com.
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