I'm trying so hard to get excited about the daily grind of keeping the house pretty, but it ain't happening!
Keeping a house clean, tidy and sweet smelling when you have two kids, three dogs, a cat, a hamster, two goldfish and a job is NOT EASY.
I find myself brimming with ideas for the pretty house I will have after I move and start the project of renovating my childhood home, but when it comes to the house I'm in right now, I'm all out of inspiration!
A lot of times I've seen people advising home owners to mentally detatch themselves from their homes while selling them, but I think it is quite important to love the house you are in. If you go into a house for sale and can see the way that the current owners love the space, it makes you more likely to fall in love with it too, right? Well, that's my theory anyway!
So I'm trying as much as possible to forget the debts, forget the recent stress and fall in love with my current home again. After all, it's not the house's fault, is it?
Today, I'm concentrating on the garden and entryway, plus the good old ten minute tidies everywhere else. Plus decluttering...OMG, I could declutter a whole bin bag of stuff every day and the house would still be stuffed full! It's amazing how much crap you can accumuluate in one little house!
Today, I'm going to look at my house with fresh eyes, and instead of seeing clutter, mess and a place my heart no longer lives in, I'm going to see the house I brought my baby girl home to from the hospital, the living room I took my son's photo in on his first day of school, and the kitchen in which I have cooked many lovely meals.
How do you feel about your house? Have you lost that loving feeling - and if so, how do you plan to get it back?
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