SO009: A reasonably clean house




Simply Convivial: Organization & Mindset for Home & Homeschool show

Summary: Welcome to The Simplified Organization Audio Blog! Releasing weekly on Mondays, this podcast gives you short and punchy action items and mindset resets. Check out the <a href="http://www.simplifiedorganization.com/audio">podcast page here</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simplified-organization-audio/id1153214723">please leave a review</a>. Thanks!<br> <a href="http://www.simplifiedorganization.com/so-season2">Season 2: Motivation to Clean</a><br> How strict should our standards for cleanliness be?<br> Leila then defines “reasonably clean” as “one that has order, but doesn’t take all day to get there, and one we can whip into shape if we need to, as opposed to booming and busting.”<br> So “reasonably clean” is a personal, individual balance between not shirking one’s work, giving a good effort, and not being anxious or spending too much time on it (ha!). In other words, absolutely spotless is not our goal. Our goal is to apply ourselves evenly across our domain, not booming and busting (something I am always doing!) and not being uptight in one area while ignoring something equally important like meals or clean clothes or not-disgusting bathrooms. Leila’s series zeroes in on the basics and gives some great tips for making it happen and — most importantly — keeping it happening.<br> <br> <br> <br> Follow the bibliographic trail<br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Messie-Neatness-Challenged/dp/1578660432/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476394209&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=how+not+to+be+a+messie&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=simorganize-20&amp;linkId=f13ba5df34586bf87da1dfb4eb2e04be" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-House-Litany-Everyday-Life-ebook/dp/B004G5Z21M/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476394439&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=keeping+house&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=simorganize-20&amp;linkId=a2b53d42d7d6596573b417a07ce09ebd" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Home-Comforts-Science-Keeping-House/dp/0743272862/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476394084&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=keeping+house&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=simorganize-20&amp;linkId=d68bbe2de5d48381ed746abd53b36598" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quotidian-Mysteries-Laundry-Madeleva-Spirituality-ebook/dp/B0051GEH02/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1476394149&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=kathleen+norris&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=simorganize-20&amp;linkId=47738268483ca0526dbaea48f9cc969b" target="_blank"></a><br> Read the original post here:<br> <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2012/securing-a-reasonably-clean-house-an-introduction">Securing a Resonably Clean House, an Introduction</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.simplifiedorganization.com/get-organized"><br> </a><br> <br> Have questions about topic? Let’s talk in the comments!<br> <br> <br>