One word inspires my husband and I to clean our house more than any other. “Company.” If we know people are coming to our house, for a birthday party, a family gathering or an impromptu dinner with friends, you better believe that the cleaning supplies and efforts will come out in full force.
Honestly, sometimes the result of a sparkling and clutter-free living space is just as enjoyable and visiting with the friends or family we’ve invited over. Unfortunately, right now, “company” is a little hard to come by, let alone, justify. We’ve been working really hard to socially distance and since the middle of March, we haven’t had a single person past the threshold of our garage, let alone inside our house. Don’t worry, we’re holding down the fort okay. The laundry is done, and the garbage cans are not overflowing. But last week when I looked around my office, I could see that this quarantine had left some pretty negative impacts on my office space.
Not only was I working from my office, but my kids were taking turns rotating through on an every other day basis to complete their home school to-do lists. Piles of little boy books and elementary school papers, not to mention the occasional matchbox car and fruit snack wrapper cluttered previously empty surfaces. The author event materials that usually occupied my trunk were now laying on the floor as well. The rolling case that usually held my college instructor materials sat abandoned by the door while its inside contents were stacked precariously on a side table. It is safe to say that my office was a MESS, a far cry from the gorgeous space I had created two years ago when I first started working from home. I was trudging through my daily tasks in this mess, almost blind to the way the clutter was pulling me (and my motivation) down.
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