Clean Your House to Improve Your Mood

I have been overcoming the funk mood and Monday-itis by keep on remembering my little kitchen prayer hanging on the wall, gratitude is a wonderful practise.

I came across a wonderful post in a blog Four Little Ducks - about this lady's laundry system for her four children. It is excellent, and she has inventoried her children's clothing in order to keep more organised.

I commented to a relative last week that a dirty house can be downright depressing. I decided that in order to dethrone the yuck mood, that some housework was in order!!!

Sometimes nothing works better than just "having at it."

I find the best thing to do is to tackle one task at a time. It may help to put on an audio book or some music to lift the mood.

The kitchen is also the most critical place in the house - because we all need to eat - a dirty kitchen with gross science experiments in the fridge, open packets in the pantry going stale, dirty benches and filthy plates will (1) cost you money (2) make you sick (3) just looks grouse and makes you feel bad.

Notoriously, I once washed up in a bathtub because there were so many filthy plates in my share house.  Desperation makes necessitation of whatever is around.

In the interests of hygiene and if you really do hate wiping up then set up a table nearby with tea-towels all over it, and wash things then drain them on the table with the tea-towels spread over it.

Spray all the bench tops with cleaning product (vinegar works well too) then leave for 5-10 minutes then scrub it.

With the laundry, sort it all out, wash it, dry it, sort into whose belongs to who, then put it away, or get that person if they're capable to put it away.

Pull out the vacuum cleaner and broom, and give the floors a 5 minute once over.

Have a scrub at the toilet, and wipe over the seat.

You will feel a sense of achievement, and a mood boost. You have also inadvertently had an exercise workout as an added bonus.

For a really good regular cleaning system for those of us who are domestically challenged I recommend Flylady.

Bye bye bad mood. Hello clean house and healthy mood.