How did I miss this? I’m so sorry for my late reply; these are wonderful and practical tips. I LOVE Bon Ami; I use it to clean prints/makeup off of the wall without scratching the paint. I have a less positive relationship to Barkeeper’s Friend as I used it to try to clean a stain off of the floor, once, and it…

But she’s such a cutie-patootie, it’s worth it! She has GROWN! ♡

It makes perfect sense. And it’s a good reminder that, while I am not necessarily cleaning, I am filling my time with other activities that are required for good health: even while I comment here, I am doing breathing exercises but also: work; errands; reading, meditating, etc. But cleaning seems so basic. And…

Sometimes vivid dreams can impart messages from our consciousness in the way that nothing else can. Swedes apparently have a slightly morbid counterpart to Marie Kondo’s sparking joy -- it is called “death cleaning,” and it is that which your psyche was imparting to you. Imagining your loved ones going through your…

A garbage chute? Fancy. We have always had regular garbage cans.

I hope your depression improves; for me, living in a messy place (which I do) is almost like having depression reified and staring back at me. Another reason (for me) to be neater.

I get you. I’m 52 and single and have been for a long time. And I have to accept the fact that this may be so, forever. And so I must make a good place for myself in part to increase feelings of worthiness. We’re worth it with or without a partner. But I get you; the motivation isn’t as clear, at times. Thank you for…

What a wonderful and amazing sister you are! This part brought me to tears. You have a great process that obviously works for you.

It’s such a great idea. Mini-goals or micro-habits are the bomb. Because it’s all about momentum, isn’t it? If I’m depressed, and I just clean the counters — well, it looks so nice that it motivates me to hit the cupboard, and then maybe vacuum the floors. And then waking up in the morning is SO much nicer. It is what…

Are you me? ;) All of my exes have been rigorously clean — none were American. They were all raised in countries in which neigbours were constantly in and out, and so the cleaning was ongoing as the houses (even the smallest shacks) needed to be spotless. AND they were amazing cooks. My father is also far more…

This is a fabulous idea. I wake up in the morning a zombie; and immediately put the kettle on to heat the water, and then prepare coffee in a French Press. That’s ten minutes before the coffee is ready that I could be using to clean the kitchen. Instead, I tend to check the news, write in a journal, etc.

I love that you obsess about floors because (aside from little stains on the wall); the floors are what bother me the most. I have a box, now, for clean clothes, oddly enough. And if I come home from work, and am just absolutely drained and cannot hang my clothes -- at least I can throw them in a box, and the next…

These are great ideas. I live in an apartment, and yet it takes me thirty minutes to vacuum. I suspect that were I to do this more often, it would not take so long! Washing dishes as you cook is genius. Thank you ♡.

How do you keep your place, clean? A little each day? Deep-cleaning on the weekends? How do you motivate yourself to clean? Does it just come naturally to you? Do things out of place upset you so deeply that you naturally clean as you go? Is there a site/method you prefer? What helps?

1.) Choose colors you love. Done.

Let us not forget that it was also a genocide of Assyrians and Pontic Greeks. Two groups whose slaughter was so nearly complete that no one even recalls them at all. 

Down an Internet rabbit-hole. I’m conflating a few things.

omg, how could it not upset you? It was the torture and murder of an innocent animal who had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I cuddled with my kitty for a very long time, tonight, reflecting on this terrible event. They trust us to be here to protect them, and to be unable to do so would…

Argh. I tried to edit my point but the fifteen minute-mark had passed.

The source article I read my be incorrect. Other commenters have been updating the blogpost, and new (and uglier) facts have come to light. Really depressing.