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Why is it easier ....
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Why is it easier to clean and declutter someone elses house than it is your own?
I've just come back from helping to clear out elderly disabled MILs house to my own tip which i am completely incapable of keeping under control. I was quite happy to spend several hours binning and scrubbing round at someone elses, but I just can't motivate myself in my own home. Aarrghhhhh. Does anyone want to come and clear out my place whilst i do theirs
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Sorry, just having a bit of a moan.
I've just come back from helping to clear out elderly disabled MILs house to my own tip which i am completely incapable of keeping under control. I was quite happy to spend several hours binning and scrubbing round at someone elses, but I just can't motivate myself in my own home. Aarrghhhhh. Does anyone want to come and clear out my place whilst i do theirs
:rolleyes:Sorry, just having a bit of a moan.
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oh I know exactly what you mean! maybe we're just to used to seeing our own clutter, or maybe it's too personal.
we could set up a house swap scheme!weaving through the chaos...0 -
I know what you mean too!
I am up for the house swap clean but knowing my luck I would get one much more dirtier and untidy than my own
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The problem with your own house is that you no sooner tidy/clean it up than you see other people undoing all your good work ~ whereas at someone elses it stays a perfect place (well in your mind anyway, until you visit again).0
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I am up for the house swap clean but knowing my luck I would get one much more dirtier and untidy than my own
Yes, like something off How Clean Is Your House :eek:furndire wrote:The problem with your own house is that you no sooner tidy/clean it up than you see other people undoing all your good work ~ whereas at someone elses it stays a perfect place
So true. I have a DH and SS who seem to have an infinately higher tolerance for dirt and clutter than me :mad: and so of course don't see that there's anything that needs doing :rolleyes:0 -
I completely agree, I've been helping my ma start the great declutter ... far easier for me to drive DD and myself 60 miles each way to help her than to do my own!GC - March 2024 -0
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hi all,
Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes to help. How about doing what my mate and I do? We get together at one of our houses and declutter a room together. Not only is it fun but with the guidance of someone else you're more likely to bin/ebay/freecycle stuff you wouldn't otherwise have done.
I had a bedroom that the 4 kids sleep in and it was cramped and unorganised. A couple of weeks ago she came over and with her help we moved furniture got rid of 4 binbags of stuff and made the room an open airy pleasant place to be. I could NEVER have done it alone.:rolleyes:
Now it'll be my turn to help her when she asks. :j0 -
I think it does come down to the fact that you see your own home all the time and are therefore always in a cycle of cleaning, especially if you have children running around.
As for decluttering its harder when you have a more personal attachment to all the bits and pieces.
In our own homes we seem to be fighting a losing battle whereas when we clean someone elses we seem to have actually achieved something, and usually there is a thankyou in the end.
This year i am being ruthless and finally getting rid off all those bits that i used to keep 'just in case' but it is a long process as i always have so many other things to do as well, i have a feeling this spring clean will become a summer clean at this rate:rolleyes:Success means having to worry about every thing in the world......EXCEPT MONEY. Johnny Cash
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Because you don't have the same sentimental attachment.
If it's someone else's then it's just stuff or junk.
If it's yours then it had memories of where you bought it, who gave it to you etc. You don't see it as junk then, you see the memories.working on clearing the clutterDo I want the stuff or the space?0 -
I find this too - much easier to bin other people's stuff than your own. As has been said you tidy your own house, the kids come in from school and it's a tip again. Why bother???Murphy's No More Pies Club Member No. 680
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I love doing other peoples houses, my late ex mum-in-law gave me free reign on hers it was the best! Wish OH would do the same, oh how I'd love to get my hands on it I also do mine regularly, I throw as I go and have a good sort out every couple of weeks, it makes me think clearer when there's no junk lying about 0
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