Are you more clean or organised?
 

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a case of one wildly-contrasting extreme or the other (i.e., total clean-freak but total, borderline-hoardy clutter-box) but yeah. Are you the sort of person who has more concern for cleanliness/reduction of dirt, or are you more conscientious about order and organisation per-se?

Are you more clean or organised?
 

I am autistic ( Aspergers) and ADHD with a good smattering of OCD when my anxieties run high ( default setting ) and a perfectionist!!


Probably why I’m an emotional and physical wreck 99% of the time

I rarely switch off or relax and my mind never stops working .., I only sleep between 4 and 5 hours each night ..

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I am at the stage in my life when I couldn’t give a fig either way.

I love my routines so it kinda of applies to both.

I cannot survive or even function without my routines …


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I am not a person who’s so good with conventional routines and I’m a total cluster-fluck of clutter and bad organisation so it’s definitely not going to be the tidy type of conscientiousness that’s going to stand in my favour. From practically day-one I was always very rusty with my organisation (the only time I wasn’t that way in school from at least year 4 onwards was in Year 10, and vaguely Year 11). On the other hand I’ve had this uncomfortableness with other people’s dirt for many, many years (which does indeed border on the pathological/obsessional). Point of contradiction being my own mess didn’t bother me because it was … my mess, and God knows I took that to the most slobby-arse limits. It was when I was 18 that I became more of the clean freak who actually actively tidies up and not just get uncomfortable with other people’s dirt that I’ve kind of ended up as, but I’m still not super-consistent with it and can be average sometimes when it comes to maintaining cleanliness in my own space. But for someone to have a catalogue of essential oils, borax, white vinegar, sugar-soap, air diffusers and (for my sins) bleach within their reach kinda suggests they know what they’re doing and really get down with it when they do clean. Essential oils aren’t exactly just there to be smellies (which is why I hate it when people call them that). I just tend to clean up for others (including the office) before my own space.

I like a clean room.

I even make sure that the Bathroom stays relatively clean.

A bit of cedarwood, a bit of tea-tree, a bit of pine, a bit of borax, a bit of bleach, a bit of vinegar. Get scrubbing those toilets and showers, lad.

Oh Vinegar definitely works like a charm.

If only there was an option for needing to get organisised...

Oh, shoot. I forgot to mention da sodium-bicarb.

Get scrubbing, innit.

I can't stand clutter tbh. Cleanliness is a bit of a scale - obviously bathrooms and kitchens have to be kept clear but being hygiene-obsessed everywhere else isn't actually good for your health. Obviously it should never get to the point where things look obviously dirty/spillages left uncleaned but no... I'm not disinfecting the living room daily.

Have to admit I do love a nice freshly bleached and scrubbed bathroom tile though :flutter:.

Four things I’d never be without from the “smellies” catalogue are tea-tree, pine, eucalyptus and wild-orange essential oils. Tea-tree smells a little funky to (probably) most so it’s not exactly one for the candles or general aromatherapeutic qualities but it does function as a very sharp, potent antiseptic and antibacterial (and that’s kind of exactly what it smells like, like it or lump it). There’s no harm whatsoever in adding a few drops of it to your mop-bucket on a Saturday morning.

Pine: freshens up and de-toxifies the air. Something to, like, consider if you have the kind of asthma that gets triggered by dust mites (and to the end of dust-mites in general I’d use some of it in your bedroom-laundry and, like, air out a window for a minute once the bedding’s back on). Handy for keeping a fresh toilet.

Eucalyptus and wild orange: like tea-tree but a bit nicer-smelling (although I know some people can be a bit funny about eucalyptus) and can help more actively in terms of de-greasing surfaces. Definitely handy with the gas cooker.

Honourable mention to lemon. Like the above but (like orange) with a definitively agreeable scent, so most people like it. Some people (somehow) are fine with all the toxic chemicals in bleach but have allergies to tea-tree of all things and HATE people using it when they’re there at least but being allergic to lemon essential oil would be a new one.

Come to my kitchen and you’ll see why I’m not the biggest fan of conventional chemical cleaning products. I’m not saying I don’t buy and use them at all (and bleach is non-negotiable for the toilet) but I do prefer to do it naturally when I can. Obviously, the more elbow-grease you give it with whatever you’re cleaning up with, the better the result. Not to go breaking your mop because you snazzed it across the floor too hard but you do need to get those elbows and hands moving.

How is it not good for your health to be hygiene-conscious?

There’s a theory that your body needs to encounter germs on a regular basis to make antibodies or something to that effect


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I have heard that but I just feel like your body encounters enough germs out there on a daily. If you have the bandwidth to keep a near-immaculate space every day, more grease to your elbows (literally) is what I would say for them.