Delegating Cleaning Tasks: Why We LOVE Having Families
I want to discuss something that just popped into my head today while I was doing my own Focus Room cleaning. (The bathroom. Yeah, not exactly the most glam job in the universe, but hey, someone has to do it, right?)

I was thinking of how delegating certain cleaning tasks can make a whole WORLD of difference. For instance, my husband mops our floors every week. I'll do it once in a while if he's really busy, but generally that's his task, besides taking out the garbage and pitching in with the cat litter changing.

See, I HAAAAAAAAAATE mopping floors. I don't know why it is that I've developed such an unnatural dislike for this particular cleaning job, but I have. I really despise it. But, thankfully, my husband really DOESN'T hate it. He does it in between watching basketball on TV. A few minutes here and there and in no time it's done.

So, if there are cleaning jobs you really hate (HAHA - no not all of them, slobbos, you have to do some too) give them to your family to do. Urm...that wasn't EXACTLY the message I was trying to convey here. Maybe more like this - get your family in on the cleaning action. Or, if you have roommates, the same rules apply. Get them to help out by actually assigning specific tasks to them. These are the tasks that you don't do everyday - such as cleaning the floors or cleaning the fridge, etc.

:) And remember to chill out about all of it. This is CLEANING, slobbos, not chocolate. Now, CHOCOLATE is something terribly important, if you ask me, and I'm very serious indeed about it. Oh - and don't NAG your family to death. Ask them to do it, tell them why you'd appreciate it, and then reward them when they've done it. Rewards can be as simple as a (sincere!) thank you and a hug, or maybe some of that aforementioned chocolate. Hey, I'd even mop floors if I was promised a big enough chunk of the stuff.

That's my cleaning inspiration for today! Hugs to all you slobbos out there!

Christina

In Summary:
1. Delegate cleaning tasks to your family or roomies.
2. Delegate tasks you really hate the most. (Sort of kidding, sort of not.) In other words - find out which ones they don't mind doing and will do on a regular basis. If it happens to be the ones that you think are horrible, then everyone wins!
3. Don't NAG!! Nobody likes being nagged; they'll just ignore you. Ask them to do it, tell them why it matters to you, and then reward them.
4. Rewards needn't be anything spectacular. A big hug or thank you, letting them watch their favorite reality TV show or...whatever matters to them will work fine.
5. Stick with the routine. When family/roomies see you sticking to the 3 Step Solution routine (and they see the great results) they'll be more likely help out.