mmm tough one, but i feel you...

I put on some music i like and then do one thing at a time.. sometimes if i focus on just cleaning the floors, the rest takes care of itself.

good luck... i have been there too many times. kudos for trying xo

Yeah I have a tendency to look at everything and just feel overwhelmed...good advice...fartgirl

Its hard for me to take baby steps, EvelynJean, I'm a perfectionist and i see the big picture...but i will try...
maybe i need some of fartgirls spicy chocolate to get motivated... ;)

we need some spicy something.. i need to go write another story.

put everything that doesn't belong in the room on one place and do the floor then separate the things to go to other rooms
i do 10 minutes work then take a break
i break the chores down to 10 minute tasks
and try and do a couple at least every day to keep it ticking over but it's hard sometimes

Phoenix, when my house gets out of control, it is difficult for me to take baby steps too. I see absolutely EVERYTHING that needs to be done and get constantly side tracked with another chore.

I find that it motivates me if I get my kids to start some things. I always feel better doing it with someone else. My boys are all adults now and have always helped with house chores. Today, Josh was cleaning the kitchen floor and it motivated me even more. I had already begun but it just helped me stay focused with him there.

I find I have to push myself mentally and once I get started, I seem to "take off". Today, I organized my whole routine in my head before getting out of bed. I accomplished most of it, just not in the order I wanted to.....

Music and the thoughts of how I will feel once done always help me too........xo

I want everything done at once as well.. many people work better with baby steps... I always start with one thing though.. if it's cleaning glass I go through the whole place and do that first..
I always have zippy music on.. I like Rock and it gets me moving..x

Think of 2 things you want to gey done for example

Vacuum Living room, bedroom 1-2-3
Wash counters

Break them down into parts

Take vacuum out of closet and plug in, sit on couch and waych TV, then vacuum one room, sit down and watch tv vacuum next room. This what I do.
Washnging counters - put all stuff from one counterside to other. Watch TV. Hot soapy wash counter wipe dry. Put stuff back. Watch TV. Do other side.

Make list of 2 more next day.

maril, pretty good idea..

I dont know who had hard floors, but I got a microfiber washable mop, it slides on and velcros to the base and it is awesome!! I put old school lysol in a spray bottle and dilute it (I like my home smelling like a hospital) and I spray that on the floor and wipe it up with my micro fiber mop thingy, takes me 5 minutes to mop. LOVE IT!!

friend of mine was a house cleaner for a living, she turned me on to it. its so nice

I'm not much help, I either see it all and get overwhelmed, or I tackle it all and crash in the end. I try baby steps and then one step leads to another and I don't know when or where to stop, I spend half my time taking one thing from one room to another and then I start a project in the other room because I'm not focused enough on the first task. It's bad. I don't even let people in my house anymore.

I felt tired and couldn't be bothered at all yesterday i couldnt be bothered making my own dinner... but i pushed myself i did little things like doing the dishers first and i did little things to make me get a little motivated and than i did the bigger things like vacumming and things.. i didn't have any motivation to cook myself dinner.. but i just pushed myself... i think strategies are to just keep saying i have to do it and just do 1 thing at a time and you will get motivated once uve done all them little things

Oh dear, I feel for you. My house is a mess all the time. I'm just too tired and depressed to clean it up, and having it messy just makes me feel worse. I don't know if this is of any help, but when things get too overwhelming, like when the dishes are full to the brim of the kitchen sink, and clothes are all over the floor, and dirt and dust are all around, old food containers are everywhere, I can't help it but hire help. I hope they have such service where you are. Here I hire a housemaid for a day, they come about once a month.

Breaking it down in chunks and do one chunk at a time is good advice. The alternative is to try and find the positive.

Single guy, living alone? My home makes a dumpster look pristine. It's so bad that even the cockroaches have packed up and moved out. The bright side.....?

I don't have a cockroach problem anymore.

gone, LMAO!!! so wrong but so funny..

I get all of the trash out FIRST. (Wash hands)

Then, I soak the dishes.

Get dirty laundry into the hamper-wash hands.

Then, I wash a first load of dishes and then soak a second load of dishes.


Then, I'd wipe down the counters.

Then, I sweep.

Then, I clean the bed rooms by first putting everyting in categories: shoes, papers, objects, books and then I make the beds and organize the room. I don't do all of this at once-I can do this over a couple of days if I need to. The main thing that I do is put things in piles first and get the beds made first and THEN go back and organize if I feel better.


Slog cleaner into the shower and b-room. Mop other rooms and then clean the shower, etc.
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If you need to take a break, take a break. Eat when you need to eat. Keeping the blood sugar up is very imporant.

Keeping trash out, dirty laundry in hampers, counters washed, dishes soaking or clean is more important than everythign being perfectly in its place. Basic sanitation comes first, not perfection.

Sanitation, not perfection.

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If this has to be divided into a couple of days, so be it.