#cleaning tips

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wash.mp4

[witchble]

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is clean your room, open the window, and let the air move again. Energy needs circulation just like lungs do.

[it-was-dead-when-i-found-it]

Ok idk who came up with making a "cleaningsona" but that hack works so damn well?? I absolutely cannot clean my room until I put on my most Victorian blouse, my fangs, start playing my funky little vampire playlist, and pretend I'm an 800 year old immortal who's bittersweet about packing up and moving to a new town with a new identity because locals are starting to catch on that I'm a vampire

[chaos-and-catnip]

Cleaning rituals we do in our house ꫂ❁

• Lighting a candle while we clean to help purify the space.

• Open a window or two when done to help air out the house and release the bad energy.

• Use scented oils or scented cleaning supplies based on our intentions.

Some examples - Lemon for protection and uplifting energy, Lavender for peace and relaxation, and Orange for joy, happiness, and luck.

❀ ·˚ ༘ * ᙭ᗩᑎᗪᖇᗩ ·˚ ༘ ꫂ❁

[vashti-lives]

PSA: Go Fix Your Vacuum

So I have a little rant within me—and also saved in my drafts— which is in part about how I frequently see advice to would-be sewists that you can get great older machines for dirt cheap, but nobody EVER mentions a really important second step to that advice which is that unless the seller can tell you the machine has been serviced recently, you really really should take your machine in to a shop and get it serviced— get it oiled and get the tension adjusted and make sure all the parts are aligned etc.

This is not that rant. This is a tangent because in my region sewing machine repair shops are very frequently also vacuum repair shops. Small appliance repair used to be A Whole Thing but these days companies mostly make it impossible because they want you to just keep on buying shit over and over. Vacuums and sewing machines are basically the only exceptions.

And speaking of, I just got my vacuum back from the repair shop and I was feeling really happy to have it working again, and thinking that it's really worth getting a high quality good vacuum because they genuinely work so much better and with care they'll last a long time and you can actually pay people to fix them when it occurred to me...

...do the Youths(tm) know you can get your vacuum repaired??? It stands to reason they might not since hardly anything else is repairable these days, but you can!! Which means among other things like sewing machines you can buy a good quality vacuum second hand that needs a little TLC and then take it and get it serviced and get a very nice vacuum for the price of a shitty Walmart vacuum.

For the record I have a dyson I got at costco 12-ish years ago and I think it's been serviced like three or four times which IDK if that's good or bad but I will say I live in a very pet heavy household and it has been made to vacuum up as many as like 7 pets worth of hair and every single time it's been like, ugh this thing doesn't have suction anymore we've taken it to the shop and it's good as new AND right now you can find like at least half a dozen of this exact model on facebook marketplace for as low as $40 and there are probably better vacuums to be had I just don't know enough to recognize them.

So yeah, go get your vacuum fixed! Or getting a better quality vacuum and then fix it when it stops working!

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[libraryspectre]

I have a tip for people who struggle to do things. I struggle to do things because of depression, but this might also help if you have executive dysfunction? Idk!

I don't usually listen to an audiobook or podcast at home because I can't sit still and listen. Sometimes I will while crafting, but this seems to work as long as I'm not crafting to begin with.

I will put on a podcast or audiobook to keep me company during a specific task, like cleaning out the fridge. What I find is that once I'm done with the intial task, if I am sufficiently engrossed in what I'm listening to, I will naturally come up with other things to do so I can keep listening. If I sit down and be still, the story stops, so I need to keep going. So I might as well clean the bathroom.

What's amazing about this is that it's the only thing I've found that keeps cleaning from feeling like an unpleasant slog. Something about flipping the switch from "I'm listening so I can clean" to "I'm cleaning so I can listen" makes it so much more bearable.

This tends to fall apart as soon as I need a break to sit or eat, or if what I'm listening to isn't interesting enough, but usually I get like three times as much work done as I planned initially.

I'm posting this because I hope it might help someone else, and also because for some reason I've never purposefully exploited this loophole, it's just kind of happened a few times. But I'm thinking I should try to make it happen on purpose.