I’ve been trying to clean for a week, yesterday and today I’ve spent actually making some headway. My grandma is coming to town so I’m trying to spruce up the place! Not very exciting for the fleeting weekends of the summer, so I thought I’d live vicariously through you all!
P.S. you can’t clean without music: Sorry for the YouTube link but I’ve been unable to use the alternatives recently
Went to the farmers market from 7-1 today, came home to find my wife running a fever so I’m now doing laundry and dishes. I’ll have to go do all the watering a little later today, but that’s okay. I still have about 7 cubic yards of wood chips to move, and our pond is now low enough to allow me to buck and remove the trees that fell into it during a wind storm earlier this year. Some of that will get done today, and I’ll be doing more of it tomorrow before and after the weekly grocery run. I also recorded and edited a video for our channel but I’m sorta 50/50 on it a few hours later and don’t know whether it’ll be posted or just deleted despite the time it took to do all that.
I, too, clean to music! It’s usually some kind of bop like Parov Stellar or Caravan Palace to prevent me from stopping to admire my work partway through.
That’s awesome, busy day! I can understand not being sold on a video you just made, I’ve been wanting to make videos for a while now but can’t quite find my place. Curating can be difficult!
When I’m cleaning downstairs I love putting on a record since it helps time management a little bit, gives me that 2-5 minute break to switch the record, feel the weight of the last song in silence, get some water and get back to cleaning after flipping it! I recently found a couple pieces of carousel music which have just been awesome!
I’m with you 100% on the music helping with time management, there’s nothing like putting on an album with the right bpm for what needs to get accomplished. And the small dance movements, head bops, and shimmies while working helps to prevent getting burned out on the chores. Plus that feeling of serendipity when the task completes around the same time as the album… pure magic.