When Will I Learn?
As I was cleaning up my house today I noticed something. Hang on, let me back track here. Remember when I talked about how my kitchen counters were a huge hurdle for me? A huge hurdle piled high with everyone’s accumulated stuff that is! I clean them off each day and they get covered with junk immediately. Like as soon as I blink!
So, I was once again cleaning my kitchen counters. I usually start at one end and just work my way down. I had been at it for several minutes (10 maybe?) when I realized that I was not being very efficient. I had already made three separate trips to my husband’s office to deposit some of his items where he would see them (in his chair!).
Why had I been to that room three times? I remember reading somewhere long ago that when you are picking up in a room you should have a laundry basket close by. Anything that does not belong in that room gets placed in the basket. When you are done with that room you move to the next. Take everything out of the basket that came from room #1 that belongs in room #2, put it away and then take everything that doesn’t belong in room #2 and place it in the basket.
You can work your way through your home much faster than you would using the Lazy Mom Leslie approach. Which seems to be…..start putting things away, pick up something that doesn’t belong in room #1, walk all the way to room #3 to put it away, get distracted by something in room #3 that happens to be bright and shiny, 20 minutes later find your way back to room #1, look around and try to remember what you were doing. You get the idea. Not efficient!
So, back to what the Lazy Moms have been preaching from almost day one. Laundry baskets are your friend! Put them to use! What about you? Are you efficient? Or are you also distracted by things bright and shiny?
I try to do this too but often get caught up in whatever room #1, #2, or #3 holds! As for my husband’s stuff – I lovingly dump it all in his nightstand – top drawer – and then he has to put it away. He finally got tired of it so he started putting things away where they belong.
Absolutely LOL’ed (is that a word?) at this post – thanks for brightening my day. My laundry baskets are usually too full of unsorted laundry to be used for anything else, and when they’re empty I feel they belong in the laundry, hee hee!
I hate all the little piles of stuff I have. It’s always things that don’t really have a “home.” We have very little storage space, too, so that makes it a little tough to tame the clutter.
Melanie@Bella~Mella
I LOVE me some laundry basket cleaning…that’s the only way it stays clean here! & the stuff that blongs up stairs…I go up to the playroom with my basket full & we play “race to put it away”…I dump it out & say “go”…they tear off to their rooms to put toys, shoes, hairbows, books, etc away…serious business to them, very funny to me!
Great Idea. Personally, I’ve never owned a laundry basket, but it’s the perfect size for re-distributing everyone’s stuff. My business partner and I own a house cleaning agency. A long time ago, one of our housekeepers–a member of MENSA for the super intelligent!!–
would stash each room’s clutter in a grocery bag and stick it behind the door. You know, we never heard a word of complain from any of her clients. Once everything is in one spot, it’s not so hard to put it away.
This is a great idea, but like Margot, my laundry baskets are usually full of clothes, too! Today I used my two year old to help pick up the house as I’m 8 1/2 months pregnant and just putting on underwear anymore is a chore, but she wanted to play with everything she picked up rather than put it away!
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