What I Try to Get Done Around the House (Over the Course of a Week)
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. ~ Laurence J. Peter (1919-1988)
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ~ Evan Esar (1899-1995)
Don't agonize. Organize. ~ Florynce Kennedy
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ~ Dame Rose Macaulay
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KITCHEN
[] Mt. Dishmore (washed, dried & put away)
[] Countertops (cleared & cleaned off)
[] Stovetop & sink (scrubbed clean)
[] Trash emptied
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
BATHROOM
[] Sink & mirror (scrubbed clean)
[] Tub & toilet (scrubbed clean)
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
LAUNDRY
[] 1-2 loads (washed & dried)
[] All clean laundry (folded & put away)
DINING ROOM
[] Throw out major majority of plastic grocery bags
[] Go through & organize papers; toss out junk and trash
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
LIVING ROOM
[] Put away extraneous toys
[] Organize Katey's clothes
[] Sweep floor
MISCELLANEOUS
[] Sweep all front & back stairs
[] Clip & file coupons
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Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one. ~ James Gordon Gilkey
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. ~ Evan Esar (1899-1995)
Don't agonize. Organize. ~ Florynce Kennedy
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ~ Dame Rose Macaulay
***
KITCHEN
[] Mt. Dishmore (washed, dried & put away)
[] Countertops (cleared & cleaned off)
[] Stovetop & sink (scrubbed clean)
[] Trash emptied
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
BATHROOM
[] Sink & mirror (scrubbed clean)
[] Tub & toilet (scrubbed clean)
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
LAUNDRY
[] 1-2 loads (washed & dried)
[] All clean laundry (folded & put away)
DINING ROOM
[] Throw out major majority of plastic grocery bags
[] Go through & organize papers; toss out junk and trash
[] Floor (swept & mopped)
LIVING ROOM
[] Put away extraneous toys
[] Organize Katey's clothes
[] Sweep floor
MISCELLANEOUS
[] Sweep all front & back stairs
[] Clip & file coupons
***
Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one. ~ James Gordon Gilkey