Cleaning day..
 

When I was a kid, I hated cleaning. Now, it is a welcome break from thinking about work and life. I look forward to my saturdays or sundays when I can just hang out around my place and put things in order.

I think I go into a meditative mode, where I just clean without thinking. As I clean the floors and the bathtub, I get this good feeling that I'm accomplishing something. The hours go by and each time I take a break I can see things looking a little nicer and more ascetically pleasing.

Finally, I stop for the day, and I have this sense of peace and accomplishment that my place is liveable, is nice, is someplace I like to be. Ahh.. so nice to just have time to put things all in order.

I thought I would just share this with ya'll. Anyone else get a sense of peace and enjoyment about cleaning and keeping your house/apartment in line? I think I just enjoy the general creation of order.. and the growing chaos of a mess makes me feel like things are decaying and falling apart.

I, too, used to feel very Zen when cleaning. However, it's also very easy to fall into thinking of cleaning as a way to escape from the things you really need to deal with- the things in your life that aren't as easy to put into order. Do you clean at the expense of other activities? Could you eat soup off of your carpet- it's that clean?

I ask because I used to be absloutely FRANTIC about cleaning because it was the one thing in my life I had absloute control over. I had issues dealing with things in my life I couldn't control 100%, so I cleaned in order to compensate. Now that I have dealt with my control issues, I don't clean as much- but I do still enjoy things being clean.

I'm a confirmed slob... it makes me crazy and very uncomfortable if something is too neat and tidy.. Lived in is comfortable..

I have to have things clean. If things are messy and out of place at my house, I feel restless. I can't leave the house knowing that there is this huge mess at home.

Anyone who wants to meditate or find their Zen state, PM me for directions to my apartment.

I hate cleaning. I tend to get angry when I have to do it, for some reason, and usually end up throwing away more things than I meant to. Somehow, this may be a good thing as I'm in the process of moving from a two-bedroom to a one-bedroom apartment. I cleaned the entire new place for three hours today with my bum arm and came home more frustrated than when I left. How is it that this relaxes people? I end up getting antsy if things are too organized. I can't find anything! Don't get me wrong, I do hate dust bunnies and dirt, so I don't mind attacking them... it's the organizing. And forcing myself to do it. I'm attached to my piles. :D

I use to clean frequently untill I got roommates. They never clean and I never ask them. So I just clean the bathroom when it really needs to be cleaned.