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you seem to be very organized person on top of being very active, do you have any tips for someone who struggles with procrastination and chores in domestic life?
well, first of all, thank you! I can't believe I seem to have my shit together like that lol
I'm not sure if I'm the most organized person, though. my house is the "organized mess" type, especially because I have a lot of objects that I like to keep around me while I'm working, so things like water bottle, lip balm, moisturizer, phone + charger, earplugs etc are always scattered around. and I have cats so, you know how it goes.
what I am in fact is very worried about keeping everything clean, not so much organized: I vacuum the house twice a day, wash the floors once every two days, I change the towels twice a week, I change the bedsheets once a week, I wash the cabinets and surfaces at least once a week, I wash the bathroom twice a week and I clean the yard once a week too.
but I don't struggle with depression, for example, and my anxiety is very much under control, so I'm not sure how I would go about if I experienced mental illness that stopped me from doing these things. in my case, if I don't do these 15-to-30-minutes tasks in the frequency that I mentioned, my house will turn into a dump in just a couple of days, because the sea winds are always bringing in dust and humidity, and both me and my cats are always sheding a lot of hair, lol. so if I don't do a little bit every single day, it'll become overwhelming very fast, and then it'll be actually hard to keep it.
I think doing a little bit every day is the easiest way to keep things in order and clean. you don't have to do a top-to-bottom deep clean every single day, you just have to do a couple of staple things like sweeping or vacuuming at least once, at the end of the day, doing the dishes as soon as you finish eating, and not scattering things around too much. maintaining is actually easier than getting started.
I found out recently that Marie Kondo uses anthropomorphization as a tool for organizing and it made me so happy to know because I've been doing this all my life thinking it was a silly childish thing, but it helps so much! everytime I'm about to leave, like, my mandoline or my blender just sitting on the counter instead of putting it back on the cabinets, I think like "she deserves to go to sleep after helping me out" and it'll make me immediately want to put it away. so if that helps, that helps.
I also love that idea that I saw on a post here once, that you need to treat domestic chores as cyclical and morally neutral: if you have dirty laundry or dirty dishes at home, it only means that you're at the stage of the cycle where they are dirty, it doesn't mean a moral failure. I think a lot of the issue we tend to have around procrastinating basic tasks is the fact that we add virtue into the equation, or we think that we can do it "wrong". we all have different methods and preferences, and you just need to find yours, because whatever works for you will always be the right way.
oh, and watch videos of people cleaning on youtube! I recommend aurikatarina and Midwest Magic Cleaning, both do deep cleaning and organizing for free for people who struggle with trauma/mental illness and both are very optimistic about the whole thing, both see cleaning in a very positive light and always emphasize how not being able to clean is a common thing and shouldn't be seen as a failure.
hope this answer helps, I'm up to talk more about it if you want ☆
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thanks for tagging me @bornforastorm!!! also i think @limnsaber you also tagged me in this a while back, but i forgor. let's take stock what i've been up to...
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Sweet child o' mine - Guns'n'Roses. that riff at the beginning makes me want to take up an instrument. maybe a ukulele. it's soooo sweet.
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"Before we were trans" by Kit Heyam. It's an interesting read and premise, but tbh i feel that it jumps around a lot in the different chapters and tends to repeat itself a bit.
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i know i did the poll and i do have Black Sails open in a tab, but instead i've been watching Malcolm in the middle (?!?!), aurikatarina on youtube and the first season of perry mason. Hannah i want to read your fics and understand them!!! i dont really get the Sister plot to be honest (yet?). My prediction is that she did it. but perry is a delightful loser. Just a pile of old laundry of a man. the scene where he gets fucked into the gap between the bed and the wall was pretty good.
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still Andor. rewatch coming up? otherwise i'm totally resting within myself totally calm cool and collective
no pressure tags: @grimm-lynn @p-paradoxa @chipthekeeper @elwenyere @rebelandrichgirl and anybody who wants to please :)
#thanks for tagging me :3#fandom is kind of mellow rn for me#it was too hot to do anything!#hope we finally get fall weather which will allow my brain to work better#mp#tag games#perry mason
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