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• Monday, April 3, 2006 - SHARE and Tell: The "Bulldozing Method"

Well, The Clean Heart, Clean Home Challenge is underway! The organizer's "To Do" List reminds you... "TOP TO BOTTOM & "DOZE" THROUGH!" For those of you unfamiliar with the "Bulldozing Method" of cleaning, let me explain...

When I am completely overwhelmed at what stands before me as a cleaning task, I pick the furthest corner of the room and begin. One by one I go through things, throw things into the bags/boxes near me (a "keeper" box to go through after the room is done, a garbage bag, and a "blessing bag" to give away or sell). In doing this, I find myself not only seeing progress, but I'm not as easily side-tracked by every little thing in the room.

By starting at the top (ceiling) and working my way down to the floor, I'm also not making added messes (for example, washing the coffee table off, and then dusting the ceiling fan...).

I continue moving through the room as a bulldozer would (and a lot of the time the pile looks like a bulldozer should be there in the midst of the construction zone!) eventually making my way to the doorway of the room, where I can gaze on the result of my hard work... a clean room, as well as 3 very full and bursting bags/boxes by the door!

SHARE and Tell:

How do you clean/organize/de-clutter a room?

Excited to see your answers! Thanks for sharing and keep on cleaning your hearts and homes!

In Him,
Amy

Comments

•Monday, April 3, 2006 - How I do it.....

Posted by PatinTenn

Sort of the same way..... I start as soon as I enter the room. I am the kind that "covers" every inch as I move through the room. I don't like to keep going back and forth in a room. I pick up, throw away and put away as I move though room in order. ( I carry a trash bag with me) I do not believe in "back-tracking". I drive my family nuts the way I clean. I like to call it "multi-tasking". Only move in one direction and never waste your steps. I was raised in the Navy and always living in Navy housing. My dad was very neat and organized.

Once everything is in it's place ( or trash), I dust, top to bottom as I go and then clean the floors. So, My way is only going through a room 3 times, to pick-up, to dust, then clean the floors. Sometimes, I even combined the "picking up" with the dusting and only take 2 rounds in the room.

I have better things to do with my life and even though I love to have a clean house, I want to get it done and move on to better things.

Pat in Tenn

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•Monday, April 3, 2006 - Same here-

Posted by tbrowne

I tend to be like Pat in Tn too.

I head there and work my way through- although I am like a dozer in that I do start top to bottom. I try not to make too many outside trips (i.e. putting things back in other rooms) I gather those in a bag- or if my little helpers are home- I mean my blessings are home then I will have them come and get it and put it away. :-)
Terrill

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•Monday, April 3, 2006 - Much the same

Posted by Cynthia, New Zealand

I do much the same as the first two ladies - I start in one corner (near the door if the rooms is so bad it's hard to get in it), and work my way around, sorting or putting away as I go. I tend to have a bag for trash, a box for things that belong in another room, a basket for dirty laundry, a box for stuff to get rid of/give away, and maybe another box specifically for books that need putting away elsewhere (books seem to migrate and pile up in everyone's bedrooms!). Anything that belongs in the room I'm working in gets put away immediately. When I'm done picking up, I dust and vacuum, change the bed linen, and maybe clean the windows.

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•Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - bulldozing?

Posted by mistresninos

I didn't know there was a name for it but that is basically what I do...well, after running out of the room screaming at the top of my lungs. ;-)

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•Saturday, April 15, 2006 - This is how I am packing to move

Posted by Mama3boys

I am packing a room at a time in a similar method, just pushing thru with a plastic bag at my side for rubbish (6 grocery bags of paper gone!, where did that come from?).

I tend to start on the easiest looking thing instead of starting in a certain place. I like to see quick results so that I feel encouraged to continue. The yukkier bits don't seem so hard to do when the whole room is almost empty.

One thing I have noticed about moving is that it really shows up areas of cleaning that I haven't been maintaining very well. Yuk to the back of the stove top where grease splatters around the knobs! Oh well, better next time!

Best wishes,
Jennifer in Tasmania
soon to be NSW Australia

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•Friday, April 21, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

When I am REALLY overwhelmed with a messy room and can't face cleaning it, I'll "talk myself into it" by only doing a tiny bit at a time. Each time I pass through that room, I will throw away ten items of trash, put away ten items left out, and do ten other things. For the kitchen, the other ten things would be putting away ten dishes from the dishwasher (I hate unloading it for some reason), in the bedroom it would be hanging up ten items from the clean laundry basket. Sometimes just starting those three sets of ten "chores" motivates me to keep going, and get a lot more done.

Or sometimes I will use a timer, and spend ten minutes on the computer, and five minutes cleaning, and alternate. Or I will watch TV, and clean during the commercials. I just have to talk myself into it, and these tricks work for me. Now I'm trying to use tricks to talk myself into putting things away as I use them, so I don't get these messes in the first place! ;-)

Mommaroo2
www.journeytohomemaker.blogspot.com

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