How do you get motivated on a Sunday morning when your house looks like a bomb has hit it?

Answer 1

Hey! The same person left one of those messy house bombs at my place too. Geez, never heard it go off. Yawn, stretch. More coffee, then I'll start with what I dislike doing most first, moving down the line to the chore I like best for last. Then I'll play in the plants.

That is after I fool around in YA for a lilttle while.

*grin*

Answer 2

Take it in small bites.

If you have a family, organize a 10-minute clean up. Everyone works for just 10 minutes to pick up, clean up, put away and otherwise improve the situation. You'd be amazed at what a 10-minute pick up will do!

Go into the room and decide what is the single chore that would have the "biggest bang for your buck." For instance, in the kitchen, it might be washing the dishes. Do that chore. It may make enough difference that you feel you can live with the situation for a while, or it may motivate you to tackle the rest of the room.

Once you get one room out of the way, you may naturally come into a little motivation to move through the rest. I like to turn on some music and use the cleaning activity as a bit of exercise.

Good luck!

Answer 3

If it's 9 a.m. or so, just say to yourself...by 11 a.m. it'll be clean and I can go out. Figure out how much time you need to actually clean your house, and then the next time you clean you can say to yourself...by this time I'll be done and can have the rest of the day off.

Wish you luck.

Or do what I do, and clean a bathroom's tub one morning before your shower and then another day do the rest of the bathroom and by Friday, all you need is a quick wipe over.

Vaccuum on Fridays.

Dust Sat. mornings.

By Sunday....there shouldn't be a "bomb" left whereby you end up with that overwhelming feelings. The most it could be is a pick up after a party and that all either goes to the trash or the dishwasher. Easy.

Still I wish you luck. Just try and find yourself a schedule.

Answer 4

I do it bit by bit: scrub the tub before the morning shower, then toss the towel into the laundry basket; never leave a room empty-handed, but don't feel you have to carry EVERYTHING that doesn't belong there all in one trip. Just grab all the glasses you can carry, put them in the dishwasher, then go on to whatever you actually wanted to do in the kitchen. When you're ready to leave the kitchen, grab the broom and give it a quick brushing - takes only a minute or less. Don't set something down when you can go a few more steps and get rid of it permanently: put dirty dishes in the washer, not the sink. If you don't have a dishwasher, fill the sink with hot soapy water and wash what you carry in there as you carry it in. Handle each item only once. Etc.

Answer 5

Yeah know what you mean put off Ironing for 3 weeks now & the pile don`t go down, the motivation to do something about it was this, a person advertised that she did cleaning & Ironing at £15 per hour so I made a start, I put the Ironing board up!

Answer 6

Buy yourself your favourite treat (chocolate?) put it in the fridge, put on some loud music and go for it, promising yourself the treat when you've finished. Start with a rubbish hunt, then a washing hunt, everything off the floor, hoover, dust and wipe paintwork, try to do it all in under an hour, make it a race!

Answer 7

Put on some cool music really loud - nuts to everyone else! Go out and buy yourself a decent lunch and pop it in the fridge ready to take a lunch break. Once you've managed to start you won't stop until its finished. Good luck!

Answer 8

pick up stuff off the floor and at least it will start to look better. Shove on a wash, do the dishes and forget about the rest, enjoy your Sunday.

Answer 9

What you mean like now? No good looking here for motivation. I simply MUST do my housework/laundry now because I'm down to my last clean pair of pants.

Answer 10

I just leave it untill i have had at least 4 cups of tea, had an answer session and put the roast on, them maybe i will get round to the rest of the house, but there again maybe i wont. lol.