We recently moved to a larger home and I am discovering how much I avoid/dread cleaning. I value a clean house and our house is tidy and uncluttered, but I’m finding that I’m not willing to clean it until there’s mould growing in the toilet or very visible dirt on the floors. It took a couple hours to do the hard floor surfaces and it was a workout for me.

It would be nice to just have a maintenance schedule to do certain tasks but there’s so much resistance in my brain. When all my kids were home I was much better at cleaning. Now with them grown up and gone I just struggle to do it.