Comments on: Housekeeping! http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612 Everyone has a story. I happen to have a million and can't shut up about it. Sun, 01 Jul 2018 19:24:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: storylady http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-467 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:24:44 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-467 Through some googling, I found out you can buy a digital copy of the book for about $7. Steal!

]]> By: Liz http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-466 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:43:52 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-466 That book is AMAZING!!! Thank you for helping me to smile through a stressful morning!

]]> By: Tia http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-465 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:42:52 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-465 That book was so funny to me. :) I’m glad we’ve both got a few laughs from it.

]]> By: Laurie http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-463 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:23:05 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/?p=612#comment-463 This lady’s organization blog saved my life (and our house). This tip alone is worth slogging through her very cheerful and very confusing website:

http://www.flylady.net/pages/bbd10.asp

On the days I absolutely can’t look in the sink or I’ll start screaming, I set my timer for 15 minutes and then stop working after that. It’s incredible what I can accomplish in 15 minutes. See, housekeeping kicks my butt because I look at the mess and say, “It’s going to take me seven hours just to get this house looking presentable” and as soon as that thought hits, I’m like, “Why even start?” and so I don’t. Dishes pile up, projects burst forth and spill all over the house and the shower gets scummy. I mean scummier.

But I set my oven timer for 15 minutes (the really annoying buzzy one) and all of a sudden, my sink is empty and the counters are wiped and the bed is made and I FINALLY took the garbage out and I still have 5 minutes left. I’m not kidding. This has really happened to me before.

Here are a few other pages that helped me a ton:
How to get started: http://flylady.net/pages/begin_babysteps.asp
How to declutter: http://www.flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Decluttertips.asp

You can do it. From one sloppy housekeeper to another, you can do it. Pinky swear.

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