Well, my house’s hot spots anyway. We won’t get into MY hot spots. Ahem. I was able to get things a bit cleaned this evening and realize there are a few places that if they get cleaned, I know I must have been serious about cleaning. Those spots are:
- My bathroom floor…especially this little corner on the floor at the bottom of the tub that I stare at every time I go to the bathroom. It drives me nuts and I always make sure to get it extremely clean when I finally do clean it (I cleaned it today and I’ll give myself a pat on the back every time I go to the bathroom for the next few days).
- The side counter top in the kitchen. I dump all of my papers and everything else I don’t know what to do with there. I have to make a concerted effort to get it clean. It’s not clean right now.
- The playroom. It’s an “event” to get that room cleaned. It’s almost clean right now but only because Scott rearranged everything in there recently. Not because I cleaned it recently.
- A little table in my office. The girls use the table for crafts and ALWAYS have some sort of stamp, marker or paper on there. It’s not clean right now either.
Some of those are what FlyLady calls Hot Spots. I should take her advice and just work on those every day a little at a time. Since FlyLady actually has a name for these I’m guessing I’m not the only one with places like these?
Baseboards. I hate to see them dusty, especially in the bathroom after the humidity gets to them. But it takes hours to clean them when they’re dirty, and still too long to clean them as maintenance …
Tile grout. I get out the Hoover grout cleaner only during the major cleans.
Ceiling fans. Seems I only remember to clean them AFTER I’ve put clean sheets on the beds.
When all this gets done, Jeff calls it a “Melissa clean” … when I get in the mode, I will be cleaning for 8 hours or more straight … and I love it!
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The pans under the elements on my stove. Raouf does 99% of the cooking in our house which is wonderful but sometimes the pots overflow and he tends to forget the mess that is left behind.
Lego and K’nex. Matthew has buckets of both and loves to dump everything on the ground to find the one piece he is looking for. He’s getting better about picking them up himself but always seems to leave one behind that I do not notice until after I have stepped on it!
i found you through nyc watchdog…i saw your pics on the flickr thing for the hot blogger calendar (thanks britt for that link) so i went searching…my playroom is the same way (well the kids’ playroom)…i hate hate hate cleaning it, however it NEEDS to be done, and asap…we just painted up there and now it needs to be rearranged and reorganized…and with christmas coming, it needs to be cleaned out and trimmed down because they really don’t have room for the stuff they DO have, let alone MORE…
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Hey, Jamie, thanks for finding me! I don’t think playrooms are ever really clean but I guess that’s a good thing…that means they’re being used!