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hi new here, I'm dad

there's a blackbird perched on the roof above my window singing his little heart out to the still audience of foredawn and maybe life is about earnestly putting meaning into the emptiness around you

So you moved out and have no idea how to keep your home clean? Home Cleaning Crash Course

What cleaning supplies do I actually need?

Tools:

  • Broom, mini-broom, and dustpan
  • Mop (get a real mop, not a Swiffer)
  • Vacuum (if you have carpet)
  • Microfiber cloths
  • Dish sponges
  • Scouring pad

Products:

  • All-purpose cleaner
  • Disinfecting/antibacterial cleaner
  • Mop fluid (Pine-Sol works for most mops)
  • Glass cleaner
  • Toilet-bowl cleaner
  • Shower/tub cleaner
  • Dish soap
  • Furniture cleaner/wood cleaner

Miscellaneous:

  • Trash bags (to fit all your trash cans), recycling bags

What do I need to do when?

Disclaimer: This is a suggestion. Feel free to modify it to your needs. I am both chronically ill and mentally ill, so I regularly modify my cleaning plans to be more accessible to me. Just do your best and it will work out :)

Multiple times a day:

  • Handwash dishes
  • Wipe kitchen counter with an all-purpose cleaner and microfiber cloth (immediately after cooking)
  • Wipe kitchen sink with a soapy sponge (immediately after washing dishes)
  • Rinse bathroom sink with water (immediately after brushing teeth)
  • Some people prefer to tidy up multiple times a day/as they go
  • Always disinfect your kitchen thoroughly using an antibacterial or disinfectant cleaner after cooking raw meat or fish to avoid foodborne illness.

Once a day:

  • Load/unload the dishwasher
  • Put away dishes
  • Wipe kitchen sink, counter, and stove with an all-purpose cleaner and a microfiber cloth
  • Clean bathroom sink and counter with an all-purpose cleaner (or even just soap)
  • Some people prefer to do one big tidy once a day
  • Make your bed and fix any pillows and blankets throughout the house
  • Replace your dirty towels and sponges
  • Check the mail

1-2 times a week:

  • Take out any trash that contains food waste or period waste
  • Clean your dining table using either glass or furniture/wood cleaner and a microfiber cloth
  • Disinfect your sink, counter, and stove using an antibacterial or disinfectant cleaner.
  • Fix any spaces that need to be organized, but get disorganized over time
  • Wipe your heavily-trafficked furniture with a microfiber cloth and use a cleaner on any surfaces you feel need it
  • Clean your floors (sweep, mop, and vacuum)
  • Clean your tub/shower and your toilet
  • Do laundry - the three categories I usually do are towels (kitchen and bathroom), sheets/blankets, and clothes, but you may have more or less categories
  • Water any plants you need to
  • Take out the trash/recycling

1-2 times a month:

  • Clean your appliances (mostly as needed, but don't let it get really bad or it will be so much harder to clean)
  • Clean out expired food from your fridge and pantry
  • Wash your shower curtain
  • Clean your shower drain so that it doesn't get clogged (you may need to do this more often if you have long hair)
  • Dust your less heavily-trafficked furniture with a microfiber cloth
  • Wipe your door handles and light switches with a disinfecting or antibacterial cleaner
  • Clean your garbage cans

Occasionally:

  • Change your air filter (if you have AC or heating)
  • Dust your non-furniture items such as ceiling fans and blinds
  • Clean your windows
  • Vacuum under your furniture

yes girl you are so [if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more] [hands are unbearably beautiful] [i'll take care of you it's rotten work not to me not if it's you] [if you are intolerable let me be the one to tolerate you] [i could recognise him by touch alone] [i love you i want us both to eat well] [on purpose i love you on purpose] [whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same] [i am half agony half hope] [you have bewitched me body and soul and i love love love you] [he is half of my soul as the poets say] [i'm sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for but i'm so lonely] [i love you most ardently] [let me stay tender hearted despite despite despite] [someone has to leave first this is a very old story there is no other version of this story] [mostly i want to be kind] [tell me how all this and love too will ruin us] [you said i killed you haunt me then] [someone somewhere can you understand me a little love me a little] [i will love you as misfortune loves orphans as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong] [sorry about the blood in your mouth i wish it was mine] [who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me] can we kiss now

steaming coffee, smudged lipstick, chocolate, rose gardens, nose kisses, misted windows, stormy mornings, fuzzy blankets, leather jackets, dried flowers between pages, soft fairy lights, heart-shaped lockets, art galleries

[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

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life goes something like this: you meet the best and the worst of yourself in other people. you come to terms that you are the universe experiencing itself. you get overwhelmed at 3 am being so close to seeing through the veil. you get what you give. and then, the next morning, you do it all over again, all over again, all over again.

I want you to tell me about your favourite book, your passions, your favourite artists, the music you listen to late at night when nobody else is awake and the world is silent. I love listening to you and seeing you talking to me enthusiastically about what you like. Keep sharing with me every thing that makes you happy or sad or angry and never stop, because your soul is so beautiful that I fell in love with it.

i guess love is seeing anything even remotely close to someone and instantly thinking about them, like your eyes are always trying to find a piece of them in everything you see

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If it’s so easy for us to believe in the “universe” why is it so hard to believe in God? If we can easily personify the universe by believing that it speaks to us, guides us, and determines our fate, why do you we have such a hard time believing that there is an intimate God who created all things, a God who speaks to us, a God who desires to know us, a God who loves us, and a God who holds our very lives in the palm of His hand? How is it that we can be so quick to give glory to the creation and not to the Creator Himself? Why is it so hard for us to simply believe?

The intimacy of showing something you made to anyone. Unfathomable. Letting someone read something you wrote, hear something you recorded, see something you made, showing them this piece of your heart you have made tangible. How do you do it, and not think about it forever. Any time anyone shows me anything they have created, a piece of them remains with me forever, and a piece of my heart belongs solely to them.

movie: youth in revolt // sunrise by louise glück // sign of the times - harry styles // little weirds by jenny slate // letter to a young poet by rainer maria rilke // more than this by patrick ness // abundance by amy schmidt // after life by rhian ellis

movie: youth in revolt // sunrise by louise glück // sign of the times - harry styles // little weirds by jenny slate // letter to a young poet by rainer maria rilke // more than this by patrick ness // abundance by amy schmidt // after life by rhian ellis