I tend to find the entire Flylady model too focused around "traditional" ideals and concepts of what a "clean" house and "organized" life is, and the idea that your life will hugely revolve around that.
Where I learned my cleaning philosophies from a woman who was a full-time physician on top of having three children, one of whom was special needs. So my targets and necessities are totally different from what seems to be the central philosophy of Flylady, and ALL of my targets are focused around a basic ideal of "functional".
The sink cleaning thing, for example. If I'm going to do One Thing in my kitchen in the evening, it's not going to be my sink. Indeed, my sink languishes water-stained and grotty for most of a month until I have a day where I have nothing to do and then I bleach or scrub it. But if I have One Thing in the kitchen I am going to do, and be proud of doing, it will be - oh, fill-and-turn-on-dishwasher. Empty dead food out of fridge. Put away the boxes of stuff that are all over the counter. Hell, organize my tea-shelf.
Etc. Different philosophies. I do not care whether my house looks like I'm a good housekeeper, I guess is the thing. I care if my house is actually clean and functional.
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Date: 2010-02-13 08:47 pm (UTC)Where I learned my cleaning philosophies from a woman who was a full-time physician on top of having three children, one of whom was special needs. So my targets and necessities are totally different from what seems to be the central philosophy of Flylady, and ALL of my targets are focused around a basic ideal of "functional".
The sink cleaning thing, for example. If I'm going to do One Thing in my kitchen in the evening, it's not going to be my sink. Indeed, my sink languishes water-stained and grotty for most of a month until I have a day where I have nothing to do and then I bleach or scrub it. But if I have One Thing in the kitchen I am going to do, and be proud of doing, it will be - oh, fill-and-turn-on-dishwasher. Empty dead food out of fridge. Put away the boxes of stuff that are all over the counter. Hell, organize my tea-shelf.
Etc. Different philosophies. I do not care whether my house looks like I'm a good housekeeper, I guess is the thing. I care if my house is actually clean and functional.
/random tangent