Rock The Housework Chat

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Anyone else rocking the housework?

My housekeeping was always somewhat chaotic, and since these were launched, my house is far more functional and a podcast away from actually looking rather orderly, even at short notice.

I tend to pick what I need each day rather than following the tradtitonal TOMM, but do refer back to that to help get some jobs done if they're in danger of being neglected.

I think my most used tracks are the "Calm Laundry Put Away" the "Bitesize Bathroom Blitz" and the "Quick Kitchen Turnaround"

I quite like the random jobs like that, they stay done for a while and brighten things up.

It's the continuous keeping up with the kitchen, hall and lounge that's wearing.

I've done the minimum this weekend. I've been valuing naps instead. Half term approaches so that gives me a bit more breathing room to catch up.

I did the Saturday reset this weekend and found it very good. I've been doing just level ones last week so it was good to go a bit deeper, and it gave me the impetus to mop the kitchen and bathroom floors which have been a bit neglected recently. Might do the Valenshines classic TOM week in the runup to half term, although I do find the name a bit cringey 😬

The house is looking rather neglected in end of term mode. I was rather knackered at the weekend and favouring naps and rest over housework. It's that old "I can catch up" mindset, but at least I'm only catching up on an extra week and not the whole term and it's not that big a deal.

Peace Restored accomplished again and the main zones are back to functional after end of term neglect.
I could do with a bit more deeper sorting in the next few days, but just getting the basics back under control is good.

And it was great ploughing through survival mode this week knowing that roughly an hour would crack the worst of it.

When I last worked FT years ago, it was like permanent drowning. OK it's easier with older children who don't have toys everywhere and can be nagged into some light mucking in (mainly emptying the dishwasher and putting their clothes away), but if I didn't have the guided cleans and those few years of them finally making the housekeeping managable, I think I would have been in drowning mode.

DS1 was winding DS2 up earlier... he was warned that if he didn't stop he'd spend 30 mins tomorrow doing a deep clean of the kitchen cupboards

I've been busy blitzing it. We're going away for a few days so I want the house back in order ready for term time so there's no panic at the weekend when we're back.

Laundry is well caught up on... as much as it will ever be, but things like stray clean towels have been dealt with.

Having broken the back of it at the weekend, the good old Scurryfunge session has been a good general refresh of the living zones.

Did the Saturday reset again, or at least the kitchen and living room bits, then did the ten-minute bed make to sort out the bedrooms. It's a good session. The children all had football matches yesterday and came back caked in varying degrees of mud, a lot of which has flaked off and fallen on the bathroom floor - yuck. Trying to muster up the energy to deal with that....

I have the day tomorrow to try to fix the house. I wonder what I should start with? Does she do a 5 hour "my house is a dump" track?

I might be out of date responding. Alas no 5 hour track, but I tend to start with some declutters of the worst rooms (or laundry if that's the offender) then move on to a meaty hour reset section to get everything generally freshened, then a particular room clean (most likely offender being the kitchen) where more attention is needed.

I'm not like following the Method consistent, but I have enough consistency most weeks that even by the end of term and needing a deeper clean, it's nowhere near as overwhelming as it used to be.

And when I do need to blitz, breaking it into the bite-size chunks of time is so much easier than the old days of aiming for a string of perfect rooms then burning out, doing nothing for 5 days then it look like a tip again

At least having done my pre-holiday blitz, I know where what I need for work is ready and already dealt with for my return.

There is a two hour house reset, I think, or you could do the bootcamp which is a set of 1 hour sessions for each room (hallway is shorter), mixed in with some short decluttering or laundry ones for 5-10 minutes.

Thanks for the tips! I got on quite well with it, and then dd flooded the bathroom and I used very towel we have to mop it up, so back to a full laundry basket again!

I have not posted in months and totally fell off the radar. I was jumping in the guided cleans now and again but today I went back to basics and just started doing the level 1 and level 2 jobs for today. I am exhausted so gonna try and do this each day and trust the process. 😬

We have put our house on the market so the deep clean has begun. Although not quite in time for our first viewing in the morning, but it’s good enough as long as they don’t look too closely at anything. I’ve spent the last hour scrubbing the grout on the kitchen floor and I now have blisters! Felt like a medieval char woman.

Good luck with selling your house.
On a lighter note, I think medieval servants were changing the rushes🤢
More like Victorian char women.
Sorry I will take myself out.

ha I did wonder if I got my eras wrong as I was typing it!

This house needs a better scullery... and staff...

The house was nice for getting back to work...
DH was off with the DCs and hasn't made great progress on shifting post-holiday laundry. Unpacking is so tedious.

My win of the day is a good clearout and clean of the fridge.

I like the look of this week's deep kitchen clean drop. Alas it will probably have to wait until Easter.
I've normally found with the deeper kitchen cleans that they assume that you already have a functionally clean kitchen to begin with, but when I'm brewing for a deep clean it's proably already in need of a maintainence session anyway.

I was pleased to see some new Level 1s, but have only done the Monday one so far because Life. I did try the WFH calm power hour last week as I was faffing about and procrastinating, and it did help. The new laundry reset is also much needed....

My kitchen is v small and I look at a 75 minute session and think "no way", but the cupboard and fridge bits would probably fill up the time.

Mine's a decent sized kitchen-diner so I often find the time allocated to wiping down a bit brief. Plus more walking around the room.

DS found a spider above his bed last night, so I went to evict it. Clearly it's not the only time there's been a spider up there from the amount of cobwebs up there. The trouble is it's been a dingy winter, plus him at the teenage shut curtains stage of life and rarely being in the house when he isn't in his room means that it hasn't had anything more than light surface tidying and vacuuming for months and it hasn't been obvious about the dusty corners.

Our Easter holidays align differently so I'm looking forwards to a chance to air and properly clean the DCs' rooms in their absence.

Rock and roll

Well done @BogRollBOGOF for evicting the spider! 😊
I am a bit fed up today as didn’t do enough cleaning in the week due to work and have just done 40 min tidy plus one hour reset and there is still more to do! They were very good guided cleans though and hace Hence having a break on Mumsnet! Posting for accountability- hope that is ok:

I still need to:

mop kitchen floor
hoover stairs
finish washing beds

then out to enjoy the afternoon.

I don’t think there is a guided cleans for that but may just listen to a build the habit 30 as it keeps me going!

Good luck to anyone else cleaning today. Hope you can get it done quicker than me as there is more to life than housework as Gem reminds us.

I've used today's new drop 30min session. It was nice and calm for post-work, and I've got several niggly tasks done (hello bins). For various accumulating reasons I'm a bit past 30mins fully restoring order, but I've definitely got several rooms looking more orderly than this morning.

I am actually looking forwards to some time in two weeks to do some deeper decluttering and cleans.

I'm taking advantage of a day off ill to potter around slowly and bring a bit of order to the chaos. The weekends have been busy this month and there was no chance to do any resetting this weekend so the house is the worst it's looked for a long time.

Having lie-down #2 of the day. Zero chance of that at work!

I've used today's 30min drop to do a general bin-clear, light tidy and general vacuum. It definitely felt more effort than usual, but it feels nicer that the house already looks more civilised. I'll do a bit more pottering later.

Anything done today is a nice bonus at saving on reset time at the weekend/ next week.

I got through a lot of kitchen-themed sessions today, but now have a very shiny, fresh kitchen. It slipped last week from being ill, but it definitely had reached the stage of needing a deep clean all over, and the regular maintainence cleans just not being enough.

I parted company with the quinoa with a BBE of 2017 which was probably a decade old

Have you ever really cleaned out your kitchen cupboards if you don’t find something older than one of your children 🤣 My youngest was born in 2018 so that quinoa would have done it!

I think I finally binned the vanilla pods bought on honeymoon in a cupboard check a couple of years ago...

I once found a sauce packet in DM's drawer that was about 12 years old and already out of date for a year before it moved house with us 😂

I've done today's drop so now have a decently clean hallway and "playroom" which was well timed for DS still being at school so I could get the curtains and window open and really get into the crevices. Normally if I'm off, he's off and he likes the room in a permanent teenage twighlight zone.

I've got a lot of stuff re-homing left to do. Cleaning the lounge won't be too bad after the stuff is dealt with. I think I need to go round the hotspots, and the stairs, get it in a big heap and just pile and sort it all in one go. It's scattered and annoying rather than that bad.

Visitors at the weekend, so I'm trying to shift the backlog and dusty corners and then put the good old scurryfunge on at the last minute. It needed doing anyway.

Oh I've only just found the daily drops section of the app.

We are still in the process of buying/selling a house. I need all the best declutter ones if anyone has a recommendation.

Our buyers are doing a second viewing this weekend (I'm hoping just to measure up as we're very far down the line now) so I will be doing a hefty spring clean tomorrow.