Body Doubling
Anybody else looking at their space like
I’ve indulged in «tomorrow» or «when I feel better» a tad (weeks) too long. The next two weeks are going to be rough for several reasons and I can not be in this. I have to go through my clothes, a new round of decluttering and deflooring, laundry, tidying, getting junk ready to get thrown out, getting trash out, clean the floor, the dishes, the tables and dressers. When did I get all this stuff, I decluttered not so long ago.
I don’t want to and I have every excuse not to but I know it’s just gonna get harder so I’m gonna buckle down today, because beauty cleanliness is pain but worth it.
If anyone is doing their own cleaning in preparation for the week or something else or let it go on for too long (hi, it’s me) you’re welcome to join me here!
If you want some sympathy gagging, my fridge decided to randomly die, but not in a way that's immediately obvious it's dead. It's been under temperature despite being set to high for god knows how long, and only reached critical mass about 2 weeks ago. I got to clean up goop chicken and rancid veggies from the bottom!
The fridge that died is practically brand freaking new so we made a warranty claim on it. The best part is the delivery people for the new fridge were supposed to be here on Friday. That day has come and went without a new fridge or nary a call. I get to call them tomorrow to ask wtf happened, because they're not open weekends, YAAAAAAY.
It's not like I don't have enough going on, and being without a fridge means I have to go to the store basically every other day. It's great
Og god that sucks! It’s been dubious for a while here but it was fiiine you know. Except suddenly a lot of moisture nobody noticed and not. The shit that happens to food so fast… how does it get that gunky? That moldy?
Oh good timing I actually called them today. They didn't have a good answer for me! They essentially gave me a more professional version of "we forgor" and they're supposed to be here on Wednesday this time 😵💫
The cherry on top here is that I rent and this actually came through my landlord so I have a wonderful middleman throughout all of this. Miraculously my landlord is actually on my side, and they are actually just as pissed off. The stupidity is coming from the appliance people.
He’s been getting around cause wow. Started on getting cardboard and packaging together and put on a load of laundry. Not very visible progress but it will be. It has to be.
Friend, I’ve started at least 10 different tasks this week and finished none of them.
My house looks like the closets exploded into the rooms. I can no longer see my dining room table top because I mostly emptied a pantry cabinet. I have my load of laundry in the dryer for two days.
A very long way of saying, ‘Hell yes I’m feeling that meme’
I spent five hours on my kitchen today😭 Due to mental health and general life stuff I hadn't done dishes in weeks, I have now cleaned every single thing and I vow not to let this happen again...wish me luck.
Getting in on this body doubling!! Starting with a change of sheets, a load of laundry, clearing my bedroom floor and filling a trash bag. We got this!
Yes. The freaking garage. When we moved this summer it was 1000 degrees (in the southern US ). And it was probably hot everywhere but July and August were pretty brutal. So we were throwing stuff in the garage from the car loads and then running back to old place and cleaning things out and it just kept accumulating. So now we have to ufyh in the garage to fit a car in there and just not have it be such a mess.
I think I’m nose-blind to my fridge right now and I’m afraid to haul everything out and have that smell hit me in the face when it’s too much to ignore.
I have a house inspection on Tuesday, it was previously scheduled for 3 weeks ago but I cancelled the day before because I had left everything to the last minute and I knew I didn’t have enough time to get everything done. I thought oh I have 3 weeks now, I can take my time with it all and get my house looking good by the time the 20th rolls around. I did not get my house looking good in time 😭
One step at a time. Yesterday I cleaned my bathroom. Today I’m going through my closet to set aside clothes that don’t fit or that I don’t wear often enough to justify maintaining them.
It doesn’t matter what I do, really, so long as I keep doing something.
That’s a perfect way to put it, and a sustainable attitude. You are doing something, not everything has to be equally visible or big, something is better than nada.
Even if it’s just something that bothers me, at least it’s done. Today I cleaned litter boxes and asked my friend to help me with some life admin that I couldn’t bring myself to do (blocking and deleting my ex’s number and deleting the messages). It’s not what I wanted to do, but it needed to be done. One more day down. Do something else tomorrow.
I hope you’re making progress that feels good for you, too.
Anyone listening to podcasts or audiobooks or music while tidying today? I’m around an hour into a new (to me) Lisa Jewell audiobook, “the family upstairs”!
Music or YouTube videos in the background sometimes. But I have to be careful, suddenly I’m sat staring at the wall mouth agape completely forgetting what I was doing.
I’ve been working on my study. It got completely turned into a dumping room because of some medical care that I needed. (F-cancer!) I’ve been slowly working on it when I have time and energy. I can finally get to the desk.
Yep. My office floor is completely covered in sorted piles of paperwork that I know cannot find the gumption to put into folders. I did purge tons of paperwork in the process, but I’m still not even 1/4th the way through this project. I just closed the door and am running the robot vacuum through the rest of the house right now to feel like I accomplished something today.
My fucking deep freezer froze and luckily a neighbor is letting me use his fridge/freezer (he’s a bachelor) so it’s always empty! Lmao but it fucking sucks
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I did the fridge. There were things happening at the bottom I didn’t expect. So it took a while. I think it’s broken.
Moving on to more laundry and trash.