Room to Room organizing and cleaning. Maybe it might work for you!
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 3:55PM 
My husband and I are busy people, in a busy city. We use our home during the week mostly
as a place to sleep, change our clothes, and dump our stuff. Oh yeah, we run home quickly to take the dog out too. By the end of each work week, our home begins to resemble a tornado disaster zone, belongings no where near where they should be, and a dining table near the front door that is the nearest flat surface for us to dump everything. On Friday nights we have "cleaning parties," (our moniker in attempts to make cleaning fun) where we blast music and tackle our home as quickly as we can. Sometimes followed up by guests just as we wiping our brow...
I thought I would share this little technique I've developed over time during these little "parties," that make me feel as if I am getting just a bit more squeezed into this fast paced not very fun task. I call it the "room to room."
We usually each start at opposite ends of our home. Whatever room I'm in, I grab an item that doesn't belong there, and walk to the room where it belongs and set it down. In the new room, I repeat this process. Now that I've perfected this technique, I'm often able to load up my arms as full as I can before leaving one room and heading to another. I make a few stops along the way to dump items into their respective rooms. Once all our belongings are in the rooms in which they belong, I just begin to tackle one room at a time. This technique may not shave much off the overall task, but it does make me feel as if I am accomplishing more than I may actually be, and isn't the mind game half the battle these days?
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Reader Comments (3)
I like the room to room idea, will try it this weekend but hopefully not stop when everything is in it's room but rather tidy the individual rooms also! Not sure I can ever convince my husband that cleaning is a party though, lol. Thanks for the tips Arranging Order.
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