We’ve been without household help for the past 4 (count, 4!) weeks and the clutter and piles of laundry was finally getting to me. It might be true that a little bit of clutter is beneficial to your creativity(see previous blog), but we were getting to the stage that the clutter was obscuring most of the creative surfaces upon which to unleash our creativity.
Thank goodness I found www.flylady.net. I don’t know who this woman is and if you really want to know, you can look it up yourself, but she has an understanding of what would make even a dedicated clutterbug (or as she calls it a “side tracked home executive) like me, de-cluttering.
You start by shining your sink. Yes, that’s what you do, but the strange power of this newly shiny object in your kitchen, and the routine that accompanies it, is that the rest of the house soon wants to achieve the same status of beloved object.
I have spent the last few days at home turning myself into a Stepford wife (my family won’t believe this) and the result has been that I am much more relaxed now and even the children are enjoying it. I have been sorting out cupboards and boxes room by room and Bigboy has been going wild with the Windowlene (the ammonia fumes might explain why HE is more relaxed) and I can honestly say there is a strange feeling of accomplishment when the house is shining from top to bottom.
