#170 - Housecleaning & Disability: Part 2

Here is the first of several house cleaning and disability tips provided by readers.

My Fibro Space shares her experience with moving and organizing her home while being challenged with FMS, CFS, shingles and Depression.

Thank you so much!!!

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"OK, so I moved. It's all like a dream now.

I live in a manufactured home and we thought it would be so easy to move, plus it is too new to sell, and very cute.

It turned out to be so hard. But I thought, 'Have wheels. Will travel.'

Easy as pie, right?

NO!

They still make you pack it up and move it out.

Also, battling with FMS, CFS, recovering from shingles and major depression ... added to the difficulty.

SO, this is basically what we did.

Start with one room bulldozing our way through and asked ourselves if we used it, needed it, or if it was something we truly loved and made us happy. Think about all the gifts you keep because a loved one gave it to you. If you don't like it but hang on then think about how it might bless some one else who would truly love to have it.

I gave much of what we had away.

I went through towels, and kitchen gadgets and through a ton of catalogs and through paper junk away.

I boxed up my daughters things but she did very well blessing others with stuff.

We took lots of loads to St. Vincent De Paul's, Good Will, to a friend purchasing a larger home or to the junk yard if it was that bad.

Again, I don't know how I did it.

I did take lots and lots of naps in between and pain meds.

I also tried to eat right and get good sleep.

... Today, I try to have a space for everything and storage.

I can roll down the roll top desk and close the entertainment center and that helps. I have a lovely antique glass bowl on a table by the door and I am training my husband to put his keys, wallets, etc. in there.

I also have a basket next to his chair for his books, and notebooks, ad newspapers. On the other side of the chair is a large basket lined with a trash bag for his trash.

Then I have an order.

Living room cleaned first, kitchen second, guest bathroom 3rd, close all other doors. If someone comes by at least something is clean.

Now when to dust and do laundry and actually put clean clothes away.

I haven't figured that out yet.

I have the opportunity to stay home and not work outside the home. I am a 'Domestic Engineer'. SO I do about 15 min of work and rest, 15 more min of work then rest and 2 naps a day."