I posted a few weeks ago about how my house had got on top of me and how I was living day to day in a complete shite hole partly thanks to my very messy dogs and partly thanks to my anxiety and depression which had just got totally on top of me gradually. The house was so bad it stunk, was grimy and just generally really really grim.
Anyway! I asked you guys for help and you gave me the best advice ever: just start in one tiny section of one room and get it totally perfect, then move on to the next section of that room etc etc etc, throwing away anything I didn't need as I went. I was also advised to just work through it in 15 min bursts, So I did.
Well once I started I couldn't stop.
2 days later I sat down with a cup of tea in an absolutely spotless living room, in my absolutely spotless house that had been scrubbed, bleached, dusted, wiped, vaccummed and just generally blitzed! I threw away 36 black bin bags full of rubbish. 36. It felt AMAZING.
4 weeks (ish) later I have set myself up with a weekly routine that's pinned on the fridge that takes me about 20 mins each evening and an hour on Saturday mornings. It keeps the house beautifully clean and tidy and keeps me on track. I don't go to bed u til the list is done.
I actually had my mum over for a cup of tea and for the first time ever she didn't say a word about 'the awful mess' 
you could see on her face she was taken aback but didn't want to make a big deal of it, although as she was leaving she gave me a big hug and said 'I'm so glad you're doing so much better' 
The very very best bit of all is the change in me. My anxiety is the lowest it's been for months and months and I find it so much easier to just COPE with every day life. I find my 20 minute cleaning each day is actually really therapeutic and after a full day at work it gives me a way to switch off.
So again, thankyou so so so much to everyone who commented on my last thread and was so non-judgemental and lovely, you have quite literally changed my life!
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THANK YOU!!
picklypopcorn · 21/07/2016 18:48
Well, what a brilliant post!
I do so agree with the mental health aspect. Not just the result, but the act of organising and making the house calm makes me feel calm.
Brilliant :)
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Amazing! Well done. 
And so glad it has helped you with your anxiety. So great.
(Get yourself and your lovely home some real life flowers btw. You more than deserve them.)
Enid I did just that yesterday, I bought myself a HUGE bunch of sunflowers which are currently brightening up my downstairs bathroom
What a lovely thread - well done!
(I also love the Housekeeping board)
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What a lovely thread to read whilst having my morning cuppa. Brilliantly done OP
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