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As the title says, what motivates YOU to do your housework?
Music really motivates me to do my housework, i chuck a CD on and i turn the stereo all the way up and i start my cleaning. Todays music is Fives greatest hits :lol: i got ALL my cleaning done while singing and bopping to my childhood fave band but :shhh: dont tell DP he cant STAND them and has told me that no way is my boy band music playing on HIS stereo :lol:
Just for me the thought of having a clean house, kids in bed.. me relaxed and ready for the next day.. I think is enough..
I cant stand mess!
Can't go wrong with some loud music to dance to while your doing it =D:dance:
Knowing that it is only 1hr before DH gets home from work :rofl: Nah, seriously it's movtivation enough to know that if I get stuck in and get it all done first thing that I have the rest of the day to do whatever the heck I please.
I always do that!!! ill spend all day lounging on the couch and ill look at the time and see theres an hour before hes due home so i run around and i do all the cleaning and then when he walks in i sit down and make out i did it hours ago... :p:
a big assignment/study that i should be doing... then cleaning becomes appealing and very important.
I agree with Trillian and Kate LMAO! Knowing its 30 minutes til Shel gets home, AND I have studyt to do, makes housework pretty appealing!
(not that I am doing much at the moment, Shel being SAHM for the past 2 weeks has made the house spotless, I'm in awe of her capabilities :rofl:)
Leash, why could she not do that before she was a SAHM? ROFL.
Routine.
Every morning I get up, have breaky and then spend some time cleaning. That way the house is always in a fairly good condition and I can start the day with a clean house.
Do it like that for long enough and the routine becomes the motivation.
Spring x
I dunno, I thought the same thing LOL! But seriously, she manages to do so much! I barely have to do anything! I come home and it's spotless, and she even prepares dinner during the day so all she has to do is cook it! I'm embarrassed at how slack I was, not that I'm complaining about her doing it all and leaving me nothing!
Yeah I'm another hour before Andrew gets in LOL. I did housework this morning while he was out and you can't tell where i have been now, so why bother.
People coming over!!!
My kids have been known to say "Who's coming over?" if they see me cleaning and I have to enlighten them to the fact that sometimes mummy just cleans LOL
when i get sick of walking on the crunchy bits all over the floor! Lol.
we've just moved house so at the moment still trying to unpack the last few things, then the house will get a good clean...I just find it hard trying to fit it in around DD, I dont want to vacuum while she is asleep because I don't want to wake her up, and if she did wake up I can't hear her over the noise (i did it once before and when i turned the vacuum off she was screaming in her cot :( ). I usually put her in her rocker and have her a little in front of me while i do it so can keep an eye on her but lately she doesnt like being in there for too long.
oh Kate!!
I agree with you, its some weird phenomonen that my house is always sparkling spotless clean when i have exams or an assignment due!!
My mil coming over! Speaking of which, she's due in 2 1/2 hours for dinner and I haven't even started cleaning or tidying, let alone preparing dinner! Damn addictive BB! :lol:
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.
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!
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
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...:o
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.
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 :rolleyes:
looking at display homes :ROFL:.... 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 :redface::
Three things motivate me to do housework. Visitors, procrastination (when I was studying I'd scrub the shower with a toothbrush before I could do my assignments) and no clean undies :rofl:
I like to play loud heavy metal music to get me in the mood. This morning Judas Priest gave me a helping hand ;)
Visitors!!!!!!!!!!
Plus, I do love having the house clean & tidy, though it's rarely the case that I can sit down and think, "ahhhhhhhh, it's all done"
DH yelling at me... ;) sad but true - he does most of the housework. But he knew that when he married me. :D
:ROFL: This is me! I became an exceptionally good ironer when I had assignments to do. You see, if I was ironing, it was perfectly acceptable to watch the daytime soaps as I was "busy" and the assignments would wait until I wasn't "busy"...hahahaha:
When im upset or really ticked off thats when i like to clean, i scrub those pots and pans really good and i scrub the floors while im having a cry..
Mine is a combination of just having a clean house for my kids, knowing it is clean for if people come over and at the end of the day, before it all gets trashed again, it is nice to feel like I have accomplished something as most days it is an effort to find the time to run a brush through my hair!