Homeschool Mom Shares: My Philosophy of Housekeeping!
Homeschool Mom Shares: My Philosophy of Housekeeping
My sister-in-law and her family were forced to live at my house for a few weeks one year while they were waiting for their new house to be ready. She said that she learned so much from me!
She summed up her Vicki-education in this phrase, “How to live with dust bunnies and enjoy it.”
My philosophy is that there is a continuum of housekeeping. On one end is:The house is so bad we need to call social services. On the other end is: OCD (think the tv show- Monk).…I live smack in the center.
- My house is not filthy.
- My house is most often cluttered.
- I dust when it bothers me.
Here are the guidelines of housekeeping for my house:
- Ongoing projects should be in zones no bigger than 3ft x 3ft.
- No more than 2 ongoing projects per person, per room.
- Ongoing reading may be placed wherever there is a flat surface.
- No more than 2 ongoing-reading books per person, per room.
- Only 1 laptop computer per chair or couch, unless attended by a human.
- Only 1 musical instrument per chair or couch, unless attended by a human.
- Junk mail goes directly to recycle trash, but bills may be placed in neat stacks by the fruitbowl in the kitchen.
- The cats and their stuff own the house- work around them and allow them to sit on the human’s projects.
- No more than 2 bookshelves per room unless it is the sunroom.
Here’s an inspirational series to encourage your teens while they help you clean house.
This system would drive a neat-freak crazy, I know. But I’m not a neat-freak, I’m a project-freak, a book-freak, a homeschool-freak. I like my house and the hustle-bustle of it.
Once, the heater-maintenance guy came to do the annual check-upon the furnace. As he wove through the 4 bookshelves on our enclosed sunporch, he snarled, “You gotta get rid of some of them books!”
I thought to myself, “Nah..”
Here is Sabrina’s vlog about being cool with being a work in process not a work done perfectly.
Leave a Reply