To Hinchers: please pass on your best tips

[ScreamingLadySutch]

Please pass on your best tips to those of us who are as idle AF.

I look at what I have to do, wilt, put it off and suddenly a lot of time has passed.

What thoughts or plans can help us Procrastinators?

Best tip: Stop watching Mrs Hinch and lining her pockets with capitalistic gains while the world chokes on Zoflora fumes.

'Hinch' is not a verb.

HTH

Choking on Zoflora fumes will distract your guests nicely from noticing how dirty everything actually is. Works a treat.

Agree with pp. ‘Hinching’ is just lining her pockets.

Not much hot water and washing up liquid won’t clean....

Stop comparing yourself to Hinch. She’s an unemployed woman, who never seems to do any childcare as her husband is a stay at home dad and her mother seems to look after the baby too. She has a spotless home as it’s the only way to alleviate the boredom that is her life. Plus it’s easy for things to look sparkly and lovely when they’re all brand spankingly #gifted new

Hinch needs to get alife outside the home!

Stop watching videos of someone else clean their own home.

I figure most 'hinchers' buy chemicals by the car load and use copious amounts of them together.

And grey houses seem to be mandatory as well.

Stop Hinching or "killing all marine life" as it's known in this house. She's a walking talking chemical shitstorm.

Look up the organised mum. She was a Midwife who started a blog that went really well. She only cleans for 30 mins a day so it's manageable and she's quite against the use of chemicals.

I couldn’t pick this Hinch woman out of a line up and I have no idea what value she can add to keeping my home clean.

I am however an expert procrastinator, my tip for getting things done is to set a 15/20 min timer and do as much as possible to earn your break after that time.

Fucking hell folk can't help themselves. Here's a tip, if you don't like her scroll the hell on and shut up a bit. HTH.

Honestly, the best tips I have from her is the listing. Lists help me focus. Otherwise I run around like a headless chicken. Sometimes I find myself veering off the list and getting other jobs I didn't think of done because I come across them as I go but I still add them to the list just so I can check them off. Sad I know but it's really good for motivation and proving to yourself what you've achieved. Plus, it helps to "accidentally" leave it out to make a point just how much us rubbish SAHM's actually do during the day when the OH thinks we're munching crap in front of a TV.

I think it's reasonable to point out that someone who describes herself as 'idle as fuck' in the cleaning department is unlikely to take up enthusiastic cleaning with a side order of hoarding cleaning products as her new hobby, which is what Mrs Hinch seems to be all about.

The Organised Mum method of getting it all out of the way in 30 mins a day, with no cleaning at the weekends seems much more practical and achievable, although there is a 'whip it into shape' bootcamp bit at the beginning, which seems a bit unsurmountable.

I suggest throwing money at the problem and getting someone in to do a big deep clean first, after ruthlessly decluttering if necessary and then giving OMM a go.

Best tip? Stay away from YouTube and this vacant, chemical obsessed woman.

I'm not a Hincher, more of a Flylady-routines type (we have a thread if you are interested) and the first thing is to declutter, as you can't clean clutter. Once you've got rid of the junk then it is much easier to clean and maintain.

Routines - such as focusing on a particular area for a day or a week means the deep cleaning gets done regularly and then it takes less time to clean on an ongoing basis. Or break tasks down over the days of the week (eg vacuuming on one day, dusting on another) and make sure the kitchen is clean before going to bed.

Try and get the family involved as well, make sure they put things like coats and shoes away rather than just dropping them down as I find picking up the same thing time and again is frustrating!

Good luck OP!

Her to do lists always motivate me - did one today.
I find if I can cross stuff off it feels like I've done things
Some days when you don't think you've achieved much do a 'Ta Da' list instead - in other words write down stuff you've already done then tick them off.
Half the time you realise you've done more than you thought.

Has cleaning your house actually become a thing now??

Has cleaning your house actually become a thing now?

Kim and Aggie
Flylady
etc etc
always been a "thing" but nobody's forcing you to follow any of it.

IDontDrinkTea

You seem to know a lot about her personal circumstances. Are you a friend to know such detail?

How do you know she’s unemployed?

How do you know her husband does all the child care?

How do you know how involved her mum is, or isn’t in her life?

I’m interested to know.

I did like her but she me getting a bit repetitive and seems to just be peddling plastic tat with her “ebayers guys”

It’s also true that if I didn’t work and my husband didn’t work I’d live in a pristine house too, easy to do in a new build when you’ve got nothing else going on.

Just wait till their baby turns into a toddler and then a preschooler. Then the rainbow vomit of plastic vtech toys will come! 😂 and toddler sticky fingers on walls, windows, soft furnishings 😆