thread: What gets you motivated to do the housework :)

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  1. #1
    Moderator

    Oct 2004
    In my Zombie proof fortress.
    6,449

    I will be repeating a lot of what has been said:
    People visiting
    DH about to come home
    Sick of the floor feeling yucky
    Getting angry - not sure why that gets me moving. Probably just channelling the energy
    There is something worse that needs doing.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    NSW Central Coast
    5,301

    Yep, I have a mad rush when I know someone's coming over, not just when DH's coming home. When I get rid of the kids for a while and I can actually concerntrate on the cleaning without having to stop a million times. Music helps too!

  3. #3
    BellyBelly Member

    Oct 2008
    Over The Rainbow
    1,142

    The motivation for me is that once its done i feel better in myself
    so i always try to get it down early in the morning so i feel better and its a good start to the day if that makes sense..having a clean place in where i am just makes me feel better..untill its messed up again lol

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Mar 2008
    North Northcote
    8,065

    Well, i have found a new incentive to get me to do the housework which has taken me rather by surprise...

    my DH going overseas!!

    so weird! since he left Thursday I have been going NUTSO! like as in scrubbing the cornices and waxing the wooden furniture...

    but my usual reasons are that i like to wake up to a tidy house. so do a quick putting away of things once the kidlet is in bed. and on the weekends i like to get in nice and early with the housework so that i have the rest of the weekend to enjoy cleanliness and shiny floors.

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    The Purple House, Sydney
    1,811

    I go in cycles... I'll spend a few weeks clenaing like a mad woman, then get all lazy. Going through a lazy patch atm, so the house is filthy.

    If it's clean, I like to clean more so i can keep it clean. if it's dirty, it mfeels like too much effort and I don't know where to start

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    on cloud 9.....
    2,105

    looking at display homes .... we have quite a few villages around us and we will skip in and have a drool sometimes and the minute I get home I am madly cleaning up my house, not that it will look as stunning as some of those gorgeous homes LOL...

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    The Purple House, Sydney
    1,811

    looking at display homes .... we have quite a few villages around us and we will skip in and have a drool sometimes and the minute I get home I am madly cleaning up my house, not that it will look as stunning as some of those gorgeous homes LOL...
    Actually, now that you mention it, every time i go to the house of BB member Jus, I come home and clean mine. I don't know how her so house looks so lovely all the time, but it puts me to shame