How do you motivate yourself to clean?

Wow JoyfulOne, now who has great ideas...And we'd make a great clean up crew, crank that music up and lets get to work.. I heard about the fabric softener sheet, I have a whole list of what those are good for. But I'll have to tell my daughter about the vasoline on the cats paw. Is it just one paw you put this dab on?

Those ideas seem like they might help. I like dancing. During commercials, I can probably clean. I've never had a long-haired cat (I always adopt short-haired ones, so that might work, this cat adopted me). Fabric softener sheet really works to keep it from getting dusty right after again? Wow! Never heard that and that could help where I work, too. Thanks, these are great ideas. You helped with everything except my hubbie. Still have to work on the sabateur. Thanks, great ideas.

Carmelanirel, you just take a small dab of it and put it onto their paw. Just one paw is enough. Cats are so fastidious about licking themselves clean that they lick it off right away (before it gets on anything else lol). I have wall-to-wall light salmon colored carpeting in most of the house, and light powder blue in the bedrooms. I can't tell you how much I hated cleaning up 'cat-yak' and having to constantly wash off spots! This works good for me with my cats! Writersedge, yes, I do the fabric softener sheet on my tv all the time, as well as on my computer screens when I clean them. Something about electronics make it like a static magnet lol. I clean them weekly, so mine's pretty much free of that dust that keeps coming on right after I clean. I have an empty kleenex box cube in my laundry, and I keep a few used softener sheets in there just for doing this; this way they stay clean and aren't floating around begging to be tossed haha.

I clean it now, the furnace comes on, it's dusty again. It's never clean. Right after I clean, it's dirty again. That's why there is spring cleaning, I think, so after the furnace quits running, you can actually have something stay clean. I wash dishes, my husband will have a bowl of cereal at 7 or 8 pm and there will be dishes when I get up in the morning. Nice try, that doesn't do it for me.

Getting defensive doesn't work either.

Then don't clean at all if you don't want to. I'm not forcing you to clean.

So I should go to a dirtier house than mine and then I'll want to clean. There's a theory, ha, ha. My husband was in the military. I would think he would know how to clean as a 20 year career Air Force guy. But one would have to wonder.

Music seems to be a common theme here. If it wasn't for music, I don't think much cleaning would be done in this world. Thanks and take care.

Yeah, somebody washing my dishes for me and sweeping the floor would encourage me some.

Music does seem the way to go to motivate a person. Now if I could just get my cats and husband to quit undermining what I do. Thanks and take care.

Yeah, well the problem is that my husband and I are way too much alike!

VERY true, very, very true! I've tried that and only gotten the stove top clean, then I'm on Mylot all day!

Music sounds good. See #4 for more ideas I hadn't thought of.

I can't afford to hire sometone to clean. My husband is too much like me.

sounds like fund and to see more tips, try reading #4 above.

Yeah, well, I was very happy when I cleaned off that table, but then he turned around and burried it with junk from the bathroom. So that only works so far. I don't find cleaning relaxing. I have allergies, so I find it sickening. Not to mention a day of cleaning someone else's home and then come home and clean mine. This works for you, but I still need motivation plus what to do with my saboteurs.

Yes, I know the feelings. Reminds me of me. That's why I wrote this. Try reading #4, it helps a little.