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Local house witch telling you to please learn basic housekeeping skills.

It’s not your fault if no one ever taught you but YouTube is a magical place and can teach you at your own pace.

Someone asked me what housekeeping skills I’d recommend learning.

Keep in ming that this is not me shaming you, I know you have your reasons, folks. This is just a guy who enjoys clean spaces asking that you start learning now.

Here’s what I suggest as an adult who has lived with other adults who didn’t have housekeeping skills:

First and foremost, learn about all the places in your house that need to be cleaned and understand how often they should be cleaned. the American Cleaning Institute (I guess that’s a thing) has a good article about basic cleaning info. Plus this video on cleaning tips is great!

Learn how to do your dishes. HOT water is the only way to clean your dishes.

Learn how to clean your shower head, especially if you live in a place with hard water. Same goes for your sinks.

Learn how to do your laundry correctly. Even without the whole “separating whites and colors” thing, there are things you need to learn about washing your clothes. Learn what the tags mean, too.

Also, you don’t have to use fabric softener and you shouldn’t use it on towels or any fabric meant to absorb. (Learn about laundromats) And please learn how to clean out your dryer vent, it’s a safety hazard!

Get a disinfecting cleaner for your high-touch areas, especially the gross ones like the bathroom. Just because it doesn’t look dirty, doesn’t mean it’s clean!

Learn how to sweep, mop, and vacuum effectively.

You’ll also want to make sure to change out your home’s air filters.

TL;DR, here are some cleaning videos.

How to Clean Everything in Your Bathroom

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen

Livingroom Cleaning Routine

How to Clean Everything in Your Bedroom

Now these resources are not the end-all-be-all, but I think if you don’t know much about cleaning your space this is a good way to start.

thumperdaetime

here’s some of the things that are helping me actually clean (as an adult who had messy parents, and has a hard time getting threw my nurodivergency about cleaning specifically) that may be helpful to you:

Favorite Cleaning Book: it helps you work through the emotional side of cleaning (and other care tasks)

Current Favorite Decluttering Method/Concept: it helps you know how much is too much to keep and how to get started when you’re overwhelmed. (having too much stuff makes it incredibly hard to clean/organize.)

Basic Cleaning Skills: this channel is amazing! this man has a special interest in cleaning and cleans people’s spaces who deal nurodivergence that make it hard to clean. he does this for free (or at a deficit because he pays for supplies and dumpsters and transport and such) and does it all with empathy and kindness working With the people as much as people can handle instead of just coming in to “fix” an issue. these videos are a bit different from his usual ones, (the last one’s most like his usual videos) but i find having the sped up cleaning videos with a voiceover can help fill in for body doubling when im too ashamed to bring people into my messy spaces.

analog-machine

I’m gonna queue this as well so you’ll be seeing it again from me in a few months without any comments on it, but this is all good things to know

crazycatsiren

If you're resuming your witchcraft practice after an extended hiatus, you can't expect to get it all back right away.

It's like an athlete having taken a long time off from training. Returning to their sport, they're not going to be training for a marathon on day one.

Start small, even if you're restarting, even if you've been a witch for many years. You don't have to do everything from scratch on ground zero, but it's going to take time to get your mojo back, to return to the swings and rebuild a routine, to get used to the ebbs and flows of things again.

Be patient and gentle with yourself. There's no rush. Your magic is still here for you. You just have to gradually build up your stamina and get back into shape, the muscle memory will return.

Progress, not perfection. Tiny steps will grow into bigger ones. It will come back to you and it will be as if you never left.

libraford

Responding to a thread that's already getting off topic so I'm making my own:

I think most people who want to join or start a coven are unaware that covens are work and not just a social circle. And most people really need a social circle.

If you want to work with a small group to do rituals and group workings, learn some things likely within a specific discipline, possibly do charity work, and essentially be part of an organization- that's a coven.

If you want to talk about spellwork, learn about other belief systems, try out new stuff, hang out in the woods and burn stuff- that's a social group.

They're different things.

The majority of people I know who went through official covens and groves eventually realized that what they want is a social circle of people who are witchy. And it's okay to realize that

friend-crow

Any good grimoire or witchcraft book should have at least a little bit of shit that makes you cringe. You don't get to learn about magic without the cringe factor.

Something something the difference between medicine and poison is dosage...

echosblanketfort

it hones your critical thinking skills and ups your bullshit tolerance. these are very important skills for wizards to possess

friend-crow

Yes. But also. Wizards are cringe.

Like you have your edgy egotistical Crowley type wizards, who some people think are badasses, but they are also HUGE DORKS.

But badass and huge dork are not mutually exclusive. True wizard shit lies in the reconciliation of these opposing qualities.

echosblanketfort

You are so wise. The duality lives in us and we need to acknowledge it if we want to thrive

*nods sagely while blowing a bubble pipe*

friend-crow

crypticarchivist

It’s like mithridatism.

Taking in small, carefully-measured-to-be-nonlethal dosages of bullshit until you develop a tolerance.

Of course like actual mithridatism it’s possible that you’re just gonna poison the fuck out of yourself and fall hard for some garbage but that’s why you gotta leave the wizard tower and touch grass every once and a while.

Be cringe be free whisper in latin at 3:00am while waving a stick around some candles, also go outside do the dishes don’t forget to pay your taxes. You look really stupid but the ritual circle design is really cool.

friend-crow

#it’s like that one post where someone talked about being able to tell when a storm was coming by looking at cheese#and there turned out to actually be a scientific answer for why they were able to tell by looking at cheese#but like they didn’t know that scientific explanation#they just noticed the pattern

That's @lazywitchling! I'm pretty sure she does know the scientific reasons that cheeses sweat before a rain, though.

lazywitchling

[shows up bleary eyed and in a bathrobe]

Why are my ears burning

breelandwalker

Something something theatre lessons about moving past ego and allowing yourself to Do A Thing without caring what it looks like.

...... -hands Jes a damn coffee, poor thing, it's too early for this-

bonesandthebees

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

greenwitcheve-deactivated202509

cottagecore but in an anti-capitalist living off the land, growing my own food with my queer partner kinda way and not the terf tradwife conservative kinda way

dlanadhz

In case no one told you growing up

Bras last longer if you let them air dry. Don’t put them in the dryer.

If you have a problem with frizzy hair, don’t dry your hair with a towel. It makes the frizzies worse. (I recently read an article that said to use a t-shirt? I brush mine out and let it air dry.)

Whites wash best in hot water. Everything else can be in cold - save on your electricity bill.

You can kill 99.9% of germs in a sponge by putting it in the dishwasher for a cycle or by microwaving it for 2 min (be sure to make the sponge damp before microwaving and to put a cup half full of water in with it and please DO NOT squeeze the sponge until it has cooled off)

Airing out your room/house and letting sunlight in every so often can decrease the number of household pests like silverfish and ants.

Black underwear is best during your period as stains are less likely to be visible.

To save money, put aside 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. It’ll add up.

Unless your hair has something on/in it (like grease or mud or something), using conditioner first can actually be the better choice. The conditioner holds in the good oils that help you hair look sleek and beautiful, which shampoo would otherwise wash away.

Speaking of shampoo - if you have long hair, washing just the bits that touch your scalp is generally enough. The rest of your hair gets cleaned with just the run off from your scalp.

If you put a tampon in and it’s uncomfortable/you can feel it, you didn’t do it quite right. A properly placed tampon is virtually unnoticeable by the wearer.

Apply deodorant/antiperspirant a couple hours in advance of when you need it. This gives the product the chance to block your sweat glands. Using deodorant just before going somewhere where you’ll sweat (this means walking outside for people in high humidity places) results in your sweat washing the deodorant off and starkly limiting its usefulness.

After running the dryer, use the dryer sheet from that load to brush out the lint catch - it gets everything off in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to get it clean with your bare hands. Paper towels also work well.

Wash your face everyday, or as often as possible. Forget which brand of cleanser is best. Just washing your face everyday will guarantee you clearer skin. And do you best not to pop pimples, as tempting as the urge may be.

Fold laundry asap after taking it from the dryer to avoid wrinkles. This may seem obvious for dress shirts and silly for things like t-shirts, but you’ll notice the difference even then once your shirts stop looking like unfolded paper balls.

home-is-where-the-wifi-is-blog

To all the kids whose parents couldn’t help you with this kind of stuff

#i think once we move we want to add washing our face to our daily routine #as part of our practice #looking after our body as the home we live most directly in #as well as the home as it is more traditionally viewed

kenziemeadowscottage

My Witchcraft Journey

When I was first learning about witchcraft at the age of 10 I thought that Wicca and having a coven was everything!

I unfortunately had no real guidance or mentors so I had dropped studying until I was 18. Even then I was on and off studying it and wasn’t taught a lot of basic practices because I didn’t know where to start. It wasn’t until I was in my early 20’s did it finally click and I tried to learn about spirituality more as I realised that Wicca wasn’t the right path for me.

I still believed that I needed a mentor to guide me and then life kept getting in my way so once again, I dropped my study. At 24 I managed to finally get more serious about my studies. I started learning shadow work and doing prompts, I was reading more, and I managed to heal my inner child through this! 💕

When I was almost 25 I had both of my hips and knees collapse on me. This was what the universe had been warning me would happen when I kept pulling The Tower, The Hanged Man, and pretty much every other card card which means “stop and rest!”. 🌙

thejuniperoaks

My Magickal Home

We're starting to settle into our new home and everything is basically completely set up - except for my Altar. The piece of furniture it used to be housed in is too large for the room I wanted it in, so it had to be repurposed elsewhere. (Although now it actually serves its intended purpose - it's a secretary desk that is currently being used for bills, mail, and packing supplies.)

Because of this transition, all my witchy supplies are just sitting in the plastic tote I moved them in, which makes me kind of sad. But at the same time, I lived with most of my supplies packed away in storage for a year, and I didn't have a space to work in at all during that time. I had a bare bones setup and was still able to practice a little bit.

During the year when most of my supplies were in storage, I was living with my family. I had a little display shelf with some witchy stuff and a desk drawer with a few tools. I mostly relied on Tarot reading and journaling during this time and didn't do much spellwork. Obviously, the most difficult part was being a Hearth Witch living in someone else's home. It felt like part of my practice was missing. Funny enough, even without my Altar set up in my current home, I feel like my practice is still whole, because my whole home is my sacred space.

My kitchen is where I prepare spells and food (although my husband does most of the cooking 😋). I perform cleansing rituals every time I clean. When I prepare my coffee, I infuse it with intention. I have a beautiful space to meditate and do my daily Tarot readings. My office is like a shrine to creativity and commerce for my business. I have witchy artwork all throughout the house, and Deity statues in their appropriate homes.

Although I don't have one single space to display all my witchy items, my home is still sacred and Magickal. Having to divide everything up has made me confront the whole idea of what you "need" on an altar. When you first begin your witchcraft journey, so many people emphasize the fact that all you need is your intention, and the rest is just a bonus. That point has really made itself known to me during this period of time.

I have tons of beautiful tools and adornments, but they are not as important to my practice as I am. If I'm not participating in the magick, it ends up just being stuff. And the funny thing is, the less tools I use, the more inclined I am to practice. There's no extraneous setup. There's nothing extra, it's just the bare essentials, and that's all I have ever needed.

My home and my hearth is an extension of me, and that's all I need.

#this is really lovely

cryptotheism

"I like to think that pets become domestic spirits. You know, like the Romans had. They're like sponges, when you think about it. Running around soaking up all the love in a place. I like to think that when they're dead and gone, all that love stays in that same shape."

coinandcandle