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09-07-2007, 11:34 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
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| I wish I could clean like a NORMAL person! I just finished cleaning/dusting the desk. It is a large L shaped desk complete with a hutch/bookshelves. For me, it isn't as simple as just dusting it. Oh no. I have to take everything off of it (including the computer), and SCRUB it until it "feels clean". I went through a whole can of furniture polish. I have to spray and then rub HARD to get all the dirt/grime/dust/germs off. THEN I have to wipe down all the books, then they all have to be put back on the shelves in a certain order. Then the few little knick knacks have to be polished and put back in just the right place. It wears me out.
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09-07-2007, 11:40 AM | #2 |
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| How often do you do this? If it's twice a year...no biggie. Every week...a bit much! LOL! Especially the whole can of cleaner!
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09-07-2007, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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| The desk gets cleaned like that once a week. It takes about 3 hours. It isn't just the desk I am like this with. Its everything. I am trying to use Flylady because she uses the timer and sets it for 15 minutes at time. When it goes off, you move to something else. Not me. Oh no. I just set it for another 15 minutes and keep going. I can't stand the thought of leaving something uncompleted. That would drive me completely nuts!
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09-07-2007, 11:59 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| Are you crazy??? HAHAHA Who WANTS to clean like that? You gotta find something else to do so that you are not home to SEE the mess! LOL Seriously I was like that when I lived with my ex... obsessive cleaner, then realized that I was not in control of my life (he was) and keeping my house clean enough to perform surgery in was a way to keep some control of things around me. I know Im being a little psychoanalytic here... but is there something you feel 'out of control' about ???
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09-07-2007, 12:05 PM | #5 |
Piper & Sebastian Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: florida
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| You're making me tired just reading this. I use flylady too, but I don't reset the clock for anything. I just wish I had a huge vacuum that would suck everything up at once.
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09-07-2007, 12:07 PM | #6 |
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| Um....well....yeah, kind of. I guess. I mean, I am a control freak. I always have been. I just want everything in its place, where it belongs, and I don't want anyone else touching it and "contaminating" it. I drive DH crazy. I follow him around picking up and cleaning after him. If he gets up, even just to go to bathroom, he comes back to find the pillows fluffed, and things straightened. If he puts something away, I go behind him and reposition it so that its just perfect. Even if its only 1/16 of an inch off. I do it to the kids too, and recently I caught myself doing it to my grandmother, in HER house!
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09-07-2007, 12:10 PM | #7 |
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| Ocd This isn't said to be mean, just imo..has anyone ever mentioned obsessive compulsive disorder? I know there are medications to control it...I really don't think a desk can get quite that dirty that fast Debbie Tea' +6 |
09-07-2007, 12:15 PM | #8 | |
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LOL I have a DH, 3 skin kids, 4 furkids, and 9 feathery kids, yes it really can get that dirty that fast!
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09-07-2007, 12:17 PM | #9 |
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| You can come to my house if you run out of something to clean!
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09-07-2007, 12:17 PM | #10 | |
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I don't think you are being mean...just really funny!!!!
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09-07-2007, 12:24 PM | #11 |
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| oops...I was laughing so hard that I posted before I was finished. My Mom use to clean like a cazy woman everyday....she would spend hours cleaning. However, she is better than she was ...she now takes meds for OCD. She says it has changed her life. She is so much happier since she has stopped obessing over cleaning all the time. I have OCD slightly....I just really try to control it.
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09-07-2007, 01:07 PM | #12 |
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| I used to clean like that...the q-tips would come out... the tooth brush... pipe cleaners and a arsenal of cleaning supplies....... I would even walk around the house when it was dark with a flashlight and shine it on stuff looking for smudges and grime, especially the ceilings, the cob webs where shocking..... I don't do that any more...I just did some fall cleaning last week and took 5 boxes of junk and knick knacks out to the attic...I'm simplifying, a lot less to dust and clean...it sure feels so much better with all that clutter gone....
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09-07-2007, 01:13 PM | #13 | |
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09-07-2007, 01:17 PM | #14 |
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| I really felt a weight had been lifted......I didn't even put the stuff back on the wall..... well just the clock and mirror...
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09-07-2007, 01:18 PM | #15 |
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| First thing that popped into my head was OCD when i read this |
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