Is cleanliness next to Godliness? I hope not, cause I hate house cleaning! This article did give me some hope though:
How To Clean Your House in Under 20 Minutes
I'm going to try it next week, I'll let you know how it goes.
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Really??!!! Can I just watch and time you? Or am I going to be enlisted too?
Hey, I wrote a commment this morning and it never showed up. It's probably better that way, because this 20 minute cleaning thing really boiled my blood. It's a bunch of hogwash that's what. How about the twenty million interruptions you get from your kids while you're trying to clean, or while you're trying to clean one room, they're dumping a bottle of brand new shampoo on the floor in the bathroom so that for the next few weeks everytime your bathroom floor gets a little wet it suds...
...ok, I'm burning up again...
Jacquie
That's interesting about the first thing on the list being the shiny sink. As I was cleaning up my Dad's kitchen when I was visiting him this weekend I was wiping down the sink and told my Dad that Mom taught me to keep the sink clean (she had basically the same reason as stated in the article). The trick was to wipe and dry it after every use (so that it didn't get those nasty hard-to-clean water spots). It's really true! And after all the years, my Dad's sink, and my sink, always looks sparkling new. I think the gist in the article is basically saying clean up after yourself on a regular daily basis and your whole house won't get so out of order.
well, my comment isn't really in regards to cleaning (although in a round-about way it is) but rather about your second 'on being challenged' post... reading it today was exactly what i needed. yesterday i received some feedback and i was so discouraged, tense, upset at myself, and feeling like a failure afterwards... i really struggled with it until this morning when i discussed it with a friend and realized that although the feedback-er was correct and i should strive to do better... the feedback was intended to help me not to tear me down... and now reading your post, especially proverbs 12:1 kind of wrapped it all up for me and i feel much better and ready to continue on...
so thanks for 'thinking out loud', your thoughts were an encouragement to me today..
Jobina: Um . . .let's discuss this offline!
Jacquie: Glad to hear that the story caused you some emotion! You're story about the shampoo made me laugh, keep up the good work.
Stacey: Nice seeing you this weekend, hope you got a good break from daily grind. Thanks for the tip on the sinks by the way. I could see how fastidiously keeping one thing clean like that would give you incentive for doing the other stuff.
Dayna: Hey, thanks for the encouragement that you were encouraged! It's pretty natural to have an initial negative reaction to feedback (I usually do), but if you can quickly rise above it (and even embrace it) you'll be soooo much better off. You rock!
Good for Jobina! Go Mark with cleaning - let us know if it works!
Hey Mark, not related to your blog...sorry, but i lost the info for Kalan...and your email addy...email troubles...grrr...do you mind forwarding it to me again?
Thanks
haylee
Haylee, way to de-lurk (let her be an example to all of you lurkers out there!). I will email you her info right away . . .
jobina: u should time mark to see how long it takes him to clean up your house.
i know that when i cleaned up my parents living room, kitchen, hallway and bathroom (all by myself i might add) it took me about a week to do it all. so one thing's for sure, i would never be able to clean up a whole house in twenty minutes.
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