I have never been a cleaner. Don’t get me wrong our house is tidy and cleanish but definitely not sparkling.
Well lately it is!
It seems the simpler I make life and the more I delve into my future freedom journey the cleaner my house gets. It probably helps that I am drinking less or nothing at all and so I have replaced some of the hours spent drinking with cleaning but this has never been the case in the past.
It’s a weird energy that seems to have come about and I now cannot tolerate the mess or dirt and I feel a satisfaction out of making it look nice. The odd thing is I see dirt in places that I didn’t see it before, however I am sure it was there.
I have always led a minimalistic life. Lots of things and mess have always increased my anxiety and I learned at a fairly young age that the less things you owned the less mess that could be made. Although I do feel my daughter defies this logic. She could make nothing messy I swear. Anyway I have always loved throwing things away in fact in the past I have been known to throw something out rather than clean it. Don’t judge me!
I am now questioning whether there is a relationship between the clarity that I am finding as I progress through this journey and my want to keep things nice. I am aware of the financial benefits of looking after things as they are obviously going to last longer.
That being said, I am now separating my whites from my darks and soaking items so that they come up cleaner. I cannot put this change down to education as I already knew that I should do these things I just was either too lazy or figured I didn’t have time.
I think the deeper change is that I have learned that I want our home to be a place where we want to be. A place where we feel content and our brains can rest and re-cooperate. A place that we want to go home to everyday. A place my children want to return to. A place free of the hair from three big Rotties, haha.
I know I always wanted this but I didn’t think that cleaning and organising had that much of an impact on it. I have learned that the reality is if home is a disorganised mess then so is the atmosphere in that home. We need calm and organised and things to be nice so that we all feel that way too.
I have an inkling about what is happening but I want to delve a bit further into this journey and develop a bit more confidence before going further into it.
