How do you motivate yourself to clean?

MyKidsRQte

Tue, Jun 05 2007, 10:23 pm

ganizzy wrote:

call a friend on the phone and chat while u work - it feels like it takes less time. my problem is not the actual cleaning its starting to clean!!

thats the only way I get anything done

spinkles ↓

Wed, Jun 06 2007, 9:26 pm

I listen to Kol HaLashon at night after the kids are in bed, on speaker phone. They have great shiurim for ladies (as well as for men and I think for kids too). It makes the time pass quickly while I'm scrubbing the floor, folding laundry, etc. I'm sure there are other phone-shiurim lines that are good too.

I don't clean well while talking with friends on the phone, but listening to a shiur without having to interact with someone is perfect.

I don't know where you live, but if they have Kol HaLashon where you live, I especially recommend the parenting shiur given by...I forgot her name, but she's this bubbie with a lot of experience and opinions, and the part at the end (first she talks about chinuch insights in the current parsha) where she opens the phone line and lets people ask questions is great. You get a lot of Williamsburg ladies giving opinions and it's very entertaining and helpful. I think she's #5 or #7 in the ladies' shiurim section.

songbliss

Thu, Jun 07 2007, 9:42 am

MosheDovid'sMom wrote:

I hate cleaning and I hate being a stay at home mom.

r u stay @ home b/c u have no choice? (baby... etc)

maybe u could look into doing a working at home.
I always said, if u hate cleaning and hate being at home... work 1/2 day that way u can afford a cleaner and ur not home all day Very Happy

if u have a baby see if you can take a home course that can be applied to a home-job so next time u hav 2 sit at home u have something to do with urself.

b''h I play piano, and do graphics. I also teach kids who need extra help (not qualified in any of these... graphics learned on my own by figureing it out... piano I did learn properly but not to be a teacher... last year I had a connection b/c I worked with a lady whos husband owned a music school and asked me 2 sub. liked what I did... etc.....)

now I''yh I'm due with my 2nd so I'm thinking seriously to get a piano to privately tutor at home

u can always offer to do homework help Very Happy

also if ur up 2 it... u could try a home-day-care & bring ur baby with u Very Happy

cheerios

Thu, Jun 07 2007, 11:13 am

What motivates me is actually having a cleaning lady. When I have one, I clean together with her. The other day I had a new one who was pretty slow, and while she was doing the bathroom, I started - and then finished - the kitchen. I get in the mood of cleaning when I have help.

lubcoralsprings

Thu, Jun 07 2007, 11:17 am

I like to put on headphones and listen to my favorite music. It keeps me occupied and moving. I like to listen to something fast not a slow Avraham Fried or MBD. If I do put them on then I only do upbeat songs like "chazak."

↑ chen

Fri, Jun 08 2007, 9:18 am

chocolate moose wrote:

really, a lot of stuff only gets done thursday and friday. if it weren't for shabbos, I'm sure a lot of this stuff wouldn't get done . . . .

to say nothing of....da-dummmmm....PESACH!!! When I see filthy appliances being taken out of apts. I think Thank G-d for Pesach, otherwise my stove/sink/fridge would be just as filthy!