Today's Keyboard Smash
Nov. 1st, 2020 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksSo this year, I'm doing copperbadge's National Clean Your Home Month. It's intended as an alternative to NaNoWriMo. I've done NaNo many times before, but it hasn't been a relevant tool for my writing goals for a few years now. That's fine. But I liked the idea of having A Project with goals and structure and community of some sort.
Ahead of time, I worked out several areas of the house that I wanted to work on and the order of priority. That ended up being basically "start in bedroom, work outwards as able." I also broke those areas down into smaller chunks, zones of a room that could be tackled more or less independently of anything else. The goal is to make it possible to clear an area in a day on weekends. Weekdays, obviously, are going to be much more limited. But I have a lot of absurd knick-knacks that need to be dusted off, and I can work on a few of those each day during the week in preparation for tackling their home area on the weekend.
I'm taking before and after photos, but I'm going to save posting those until once an area is completed. That will minimize the pic spamming, not to mention the effort on my part. The goal is to clean, after all, not just to document.
Today, I cleaned the end table in my bedroom. It's not quite done yet. I need to do the rest of the table with wood polish--I only got the tabletop today. There's also a box in front of it that counts as part of the zone and needs to be sorted through, as it's full of a mix of important books and important paperwork, neither of which necessarily need to be kept right there, even if they do need to be kept somewhere. So that'll get finished next weekend.
Part of the strategy is to listen to some sort of media while cleaning to keep it pleasant. I decided I would use this as a chance to catch up on the King Falls AM podcast. I cleaned through episodes 35-37 plus the Election Night Special today (~1.5 hours).
Ahead of time, I worked out several areas of the house that I wanted to work on and the order of priority. That ended up being basically "start in bedroom, work outwards as able." I also broke those areas down into smaller chunks, zones of a room that could be tackled more or less independently of anything else. The goal is to make it possible to clear an area in a day on weekends. Weekdays, obviously, are going to be much more limited. But I have a lot of absurd knick-knacks that need to be dusted off, and I can work on a few of those each day during the week in preparation for tackling their home area on the weekend.
I'm taking before and after photos, but I'm going to save posting those until once an area is completed. That will minimize the pic spamming, not to mention the effort on my part. The goal is to clean, after all, not just to document.
Today, I cleaned the end table in my bedroom. It's not quite done yet. I need to do the rest of the table with wood polish--I only got the tabletop today. There's also a box in front of it that counts as part of the zone and needs to be sorted through, as it's full of a mix of important books and important paperwork, neither of which necessarily need to be kept right there, even if they do need to be kept somewhere. So that'll get finished next weekend.
Part of the strategy is to listen to some sort of media while cleaning to keep it pleasant. I decided I would use this as a chance to catch up on the King Falls AM podcast. I cleaned through episodes 35-37 plus the Election Night Special today (~1.5 hours).
