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rofgilead · 07-22-2006, 01:17 PM

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.

Sage · 07-22-2006, 02:38 PM

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.

maleficent · 07-22-2006, 02:57 PM

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

*Nikki* · 07-22-2006, 06:52 PM

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.

noodle · 07-22-2006, 06:58 PM

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.

Corneo · 07-22-2006, 11:39 PM

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.

07-22-2006, 01:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
rofgilead Crazy Location: Nowhere	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.

07-22-2006, 02:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
Sage hoarding all the big girl panties since 2005 Location: North side	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. __________________ Sage knows our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous -C'hi

07-22-2006, 02:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	I'm a confirmed slob... it makes me crazy and very uncomfortable if something is too neat and tidy.. Lived in is comfortable.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

07-22-2006, 06:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
Nikki ~~~~~~~ Location: Charleston, SC	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.

07-22-2006, 11:39 PM	#6 (permalink)
Corneo Insane	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.