Yay for Clean!!!

So...I came up with this new system for myself when it comes to my cleaning...the 15 minute cleanup. I have such a hard time focusing on cleaning my house especially since there are 14 rooms to clean plus 4 bathrooms. To me, sitting in one room staring at the same walls is of complete and utter boredom, but I was tired of these wrecked rooms. I came across a book at a bargain bookstore the other day:




The first thing that hit me to begin with was...does that even exist?! A tidy and neat house?! Then I realized...hey, I think I had that once, yeah, Cameron is 12...about 12 years ago. It may be harder to do with 6 kids, but it may be possible....I can do this!!


My system is simply this: Set an egg timer for 15 minutes and then like a bat out of hell, run through the room cleaning. When the timer goes off, move on to another room (on another floor if you have more than one floor), whether you are finished with that one or not. Do the same thing in another room. Eventually, you will make your way back down to the room that you may not have finished the first time around and you will get to it then. The change of scenery alone is worth it! Strangely, this system totally works!! On another bright note, moving this quickly is great exercise! I have 3 floors in my house and in 2 days, 2 of them are finished and... I have lost 3 lb (not sure if this is due to the exercise or the lack of snacking since I am focusing on the cleaning)! Do you know what? I could care less the reason because it is working!! I hope to be able to keep this up, a clean house and possibly another child's worth of weight off of me...woo-hoo!!!