I have noticed a link between cleaning and essay writing. I always think how wonderful cleaning is when I have one to write and so insist on cleaning my room before starting the essay.

So I wondered (am sitting in clean room waiting for inspiration on essay) what makes everyone bring out the duster and start cleaning happly to avoid doing the other thing? I realise there will be some strange person out there that really loves cleaning.

I've never found anything that makes me want to clean, so I'll be following this thread for inspiration :thumbsup:

Whenever I have anything pressing, I have to make lists of priorities. These then need constant maintenance :laugh:

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Whenever I have anything pressing, I have to make lists of priorities. These then need constant maintenance



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So what’s your essay about maybe I can help you with it

So what’s your essay about maybe I can help you with it


I'll help too!! let me add it to my list...

I'll help too!! let me add it to my list...

Best make sure that you have that list in alphabetical order with footnotes and bullet points with sub categories for order of importance
and then have a nice cup tea


Now I must clear out the shed

Where did I put that pen and pad

What Theological questions were raised for Jews by the experience of the Shoah (Holocaust), and what kinds of attempts have been made to resolve them?

You can see why cleaning is appealing to me.

Having your house on the market gives you the inspiration to clean! :thumbsup:

I have a fridge magnet that says

Dull women have immaculate houses

This is one of the motto's I live by!

Best make sure that you have that list in alphabetical order with footnotes and bullet points with sub categories for order of importance
and then have a nice cup tea


Now I must clear out the shed

Where did I put that pen and pad


I find typing a list on the computer beneficial. If you put it on excel you can make it into graphs and put the writing into all different types of colours to help organise it. Sadly it take a few minutes for the computer to load up when you switch it on so you might as well have a cupper why you wait to write your list to prioritise all the jobs you need to do.

I have to play mind games with myself to get motivated. I look round the flat and imagine that someone is coming round in, say, an hour or two. Then shame forces me into some pretty nifty action - lol.

Hardly anyone ever comes though, apart from Mr. C's brothers and being men they probably don't even notice.

Mazz doesn't get a lot of time to pop in, being at work and having other commitments but that would spur me into action. She works and keeps a lovely home. I'm at home all day and live in semi-permanent chaos.

I can't seem to get into a routine of doing a bit here and a bit there. I have to wait til it's embarrassing and then have a complete blitz. It's quite satisfying when it's done though.

It's funny how no one ever comes when it's looking clean and tidy but only when it's chaos :(

When I was at college I was always inspired to clean when I was supposed to be doing revision.

Now, nothing really inspires me to clean.
Only really when the kids toys are piled up to the living room ceiling, and also happen to be in every other room in the house (why is it that kids toys have a habit of expanding into every room in the house) do I get the need to say, ok enough is enough, I'll bring the hoover out.

Having your house on the market gives you the inspiration to clean! :thumbsup:

You poor girl

I am weeping for you



House cleaning when you have no choice other than to do it

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I was the same as you Becks when i was in college and it was time to study it was always time for a spring clean!

similarily if i bring work home - i always have to tidy my room before i start.

I've been having loads of probs sleeping lately and tried everything to no avail .....but since i gave my room a big spring clean last week and i've been sleeping much better since!

Yeah, we usually live like pigs! lol! Although once it is all spick & span I do rather like the place and it makes me wonder why we are moving at all!

Slightly off-topic but also on-topic does anyone have a cleaner other than their spouse?

I have a fridge magnet that says

Dull women have immaculate houses

This is one of the motto's I live by!

I usually live by my Avatar which says (for those who can't see it)

"A clean home means a broken computer" :)

I usually live by my Avatar which says (for those who can't see it)

"A clean home means a broken computer" :)


I'm loving that one too Critique :thumbsup:

Cleaner = Spouse :ohmy: My spouse has never heard of that one. :laugh:

So I don't have a spouse cleaner and I don't have anyone else either

The only time I am ever motivated to clean is in the late stages of pregnancy, or if my mum is coming over :laugh:

mmm both ways seem fairly drastic motivators to clean.

Becks I am not in the least bit surprised that you have cleaned your room - with an essay title like that I would clean the whole of the neighbourhood!!!

I love ils fridge magnet saying:

Dull women have immaculate houses

What is the opposite of Dull then?? Cos I am that.

Like Crit - to get anywhere near cleaning I have to play mind games and imagine I am hosting a party or someone special is coming. They have to be special cos I clean up for no-one else!! And then I maybe motivated to do something.

Trouble is I can't really do half measures and if I start something it has to be done 110% perfectly or else it is not worth it.

I have a fridge magnet that says

Dull women have immaculate houses

This is one of the motto's I live by!

I knew it. I am extremely interesting. I usually get the urge to clean whilst (note Fee) having an argument with Mr P. It's easier to be doing something whilst rowing, I find. A release of pent-up aggression, I assume. We don't row a lot, hence (do you like that one?) I live in a state of permanent dissaray.

I usually go into a cleaning frenzy if I vist my SIL who's house is a sh!t tip and then I think 'oh my god. I NEVER want my house to be like that' and I come home and clean until I am nearly dead.

What Theological questions were raised for Jews by the experience of the Shoah (Holocaust), and what kinds of attempts have been made to resolve them?

You can see why cleaning is appealing to me.

When you put it like....

Crit, in the long run, you can spend far more time wiping away a tincy wincy layer of dust each day, than one thick layer every few weeks.

I'm only inspired to clean if I think someone's coming then I'll go mad for a few hours.

Have done 400 words, 2100 to go.

Mmm did I clean on top of the wardrobe?????

Our house just kind of stays clean. :ninja:

Our house just kind of stays clean. :ninja:


I yearn for such a house. Do they only exist in Middle Earth?

I yearn for such a house. Do they only exist in Middle Earth?

I don't know, Patsy. It's all very strange. I asked my womenfolk and they just glared at me. And, apparently, tea tonight is "if you can find it you can have it". Weird behaviour...

Okay, that's that cleared up. It seems our house doesn't just clean itself. My womenfolk clean it while my attention is elsewhere.

Oh, and my tea is confirmed to be "bread-and-ifits". Usually an issue that belongs in a different thread but most relevant here, apparently, tonight...

Okay, that's that cleared up. It seems our house doesn't just clean itself. My womenfolk clean it while my attention is elsewhere.

Oh, and my tea is confirmed to be "bread-and-ifits". Usually an issue that belongs in a different thread but most relevant here, apparently, tonight...


All I have to say to this is :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


*good on mrs & the misses dab* :ninja:

We were discussing this very subject at work today. Why is it when somebody is coming unexpectedly and you only have perhaps an hour to get straight it is amazing what you can achieve in that ammount of time, yet when you have plenty of time to do it each task takes ages.

Maz is glad that Crit can't see inside her drawers and cupboards.