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Cleaning Quirk

Posted Sep 11 2009 2:12pm
Lavinia tagged me for this meme:
What is your "Cleaning Quirk"?
Something you do that is unusual or unique.
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Easy enough. I am a great fan of the "Ten Minute Tidy-Up". I used to do it when the kids were small. If they wanted to go someplace or do something special, before we left, we did a "Ten Minute Tidy-Up. We all went to different rooms, and on the shout of "Go!", we'd clean like hellzapoppin' for (you guessed it!) ten minutes. It was a good way to keep things orderly. Now that my kids are grown, I am still a fan of the "Ten Minute Tidy-Up". Every day, I assemble my supplies, and pick a room to start in. I give it my all for 10 minutes, and only 10 minutes! I am flying, and I imagine that I look pretty stupid. When my 10 minutes are up, I move into the next room, and check the clock, and then clean like crazy again...for 10 minutes. I whip through every room at top speed. It sounds crazy, but you can get an enormous amount of work done in 10 minutes. Furthermore, if I do this every day, amazingly, I can keep up. Interestingly enough, I can now fold a load of laundry in ten minutes. I can vacuum my entire house in ten minutes. Somehow, breaking everything down into ten minute increments makes it all seem less overwhelming. Special note: spring cleaning cannot be done in ten minutes. Darn it.
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