You know those tasks around the house that you spot in the middle of doing something else and you say to yourself “one day I’ll get round to sorting that out”.
It could be anything, a cobweb, a dirty window, dirty handprints on a door. You name it, there’s an ever growing supply of tasks in the house that just need a round tuit moment.
Well, I stumbled across a solution completely by accident. I didn’t even realise the significance of what I’d discovered, nor the impact on my list of round tuits.
During a time of chilling and meditation in the garden one fine day, out of the blue a prompt arose. I like to consider it divine inspiration. It was quite a shocking thought, to clean the house by concentrating on one room a month. It did excite me to think the house would be clean and organised, though the thoughts were interwoven with thoughts of dread about getting on and doing it.
Anyway, today I completed cleaning the landing, stairs and hall. It was only afterwards I realised just what I had achieved, without even noticing:
- Dirty marks gone from the stairs ceiling (no idea how they even got there)
- We can now see through the landing window
- Manky towels decluttered from the airing cupboard
- Lounge and front door free of dirty hand prints
- The cobwebs down the side of the front door are gone
- Cleaned the mould from the bottom of the front door
You see these were all jobs that one day we were going to get round to, but until today had never happened. And neither did we set out to do them, they just so happened to get hoovered up into a larger task.
Not a very inspiring list to be honest, but over the last year many things have been ‘corrected’ theat shall we say have been waiting for one or two years to begot round to:
- Fitting the water inlet pipe for the dishwasher through the rear of a cabinet rather than it be running through the door
- Wiping up a load of dried milk under the fridge
- Replacing the mouldy sealant round the bath
- Fixing the cloakroom tap that sprayed water everywhere
- Finding a whole multitude of things, the latest being my son’s bank card
- The funniest has to be repairing the slats on my son’s bed. It was quite funny hearing him crash through the bed every couple of days, but after a few years he had got very frustrated.
So the moral of the story? Maybe find a bigger task to swallow up all those little round tuits and they’ll be done before you know. Also, try cleaning a room a month, you’ll be amazed what a sense of peace and tranquillity descends on the home. That is if you’re not super efficient at keeping it all clean and tidy in the first place. If that’s you, well done, I take my hat off to you.