So happy to have you back, Char..:hug:

Stop the dang cleaning...it'll just get dirty again..:rolleyes: That's my phylosophy and I'm sticking to it. DBF has the right idea.:cool:

Char - best of luck with the cleaning. Just remember if it doesn't get done today, it will still be there tomorrow. Sucks but true.

I can relate.
 

Every time I go visit my family for a week or 2 I come home to a pig sty. I spend 2 days cleaning up the mess. I have 5 dogs wich requires daily vacuuming. My hardwood floors look like fur carpet by the time I get home. Then there is the newspaper, dishes, ect ect all over.:hissyfit:

Hi Char,

It's soo good to see you posting again - i've missed you!! I'm sorry that you came home to a mess - I can't imagine how frustrating that must have been for you!:hug:

I have the same problem with cleaning although I only usually clean my bathroom and maybe dust downstairs if I can manage it. My mum is always telling me not to clean so much but I like having everything clean so always tend to do it even though I have been told not not!!!

I do what the others have done and do a bit at a time. I maybe dust the things in my bedroom for 15 minutes or so and then sit down and rest for 10 minutes so that I don't overdo things. I then sweep the floor - I find that pretty hard and painful though now seeing as both my arms are affected so can't do that as much as I used to or need to allow myself longer and then a longer time afterwards to rest. I can't vacum that well either so my mum usually does that for me.

I used to always overdo things a lot and pay for it afterwards but am now learning to take it more steady as it just isn't worth having to pay for it afterwards!! I like to have a clean bedroom but am not as bad as I used to be as I just can't clean that much!

I like AMN's signiture as I can really relate to it - we always have to plan a rest day for me after I have been doing something the day before.

Take it easy and know that I am thinking about you!

we have 3 large dogs, I vacuum everyday also & was gone 6 weeks!

I have five kids and a dog... work 40 hours on my feet at work, and not doing too well...so cleaning hahahaa well lets say the dining room table is the laundry pile always, the kids help a LOT though, but the clutter is always on my mind.... with I could ignore it...without letting it bug me that it needs to be done sometime just never get to much enough to keep uncluttered ugggggg

hugssss and good luck all, sarah

I am finally getting the first layer off! :eek: It took me 3 hours just to do the bathroom on Friday - and it isn't a big bathroom! The tub floor I think had an inch of scum on it - I had 2 scrub pads, put them down and stood on them to scrub with my feet! :D I figured I was killing two birds with one stone - cleaning the tub and working the leg muscles!

This morning I took down the curtains in the bedroom along with sheets off the bed - they are in the washer now. Vacuum'd in the whole entire room - even the vents and heat registers! Wow, I feel pretty proud of myself and it is only 10:00 a.m.

You go Char!!!!!:D

She's a tiger I tell ya!