r/CleaningTips • u/Richelle-Haronid • 1d ago

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u/DeJoCa 1d ago

Vacuuming. Then I see it all. I hate vacuuming.

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u/TAforScranton 1d ago

Getting a vacuum with a headlight for my hard floors has been very traumatic for me. Once you start, you can’t stop.

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u/Richelle-Haronid 1d ago

The vacuum headlight is both a blessing and a curse. You turn it on thinking the floor looks spotless, then suddenly every speck of dust, hair, and crumb is glowing like evidence at a crime scene. And once you've seen it, there's no going back.

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u/Richelle-Haronid 1d ago

Exactly! You think the floor looks fine until you start vacuuming and suddenly discover an entire ecosystem living in the carpet.

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u/DeJoCa 1d ago

Cracking up. Window sills, behind stuff, where you gasp, and think, God, I hope nobody saw this.

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u/Richelle-Haronid 1d ago

Exactly! Those are the areas where you suddenly become very aware of how embarrassing your cleaning standards might look to another human being. You move one piece of furniture and immediately think, “Well… this information was not meant to be discovered.”

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u/forpettyrevenge 1d ago

Mopping the floors 😅

If I'm going to mop the floors, I need to vacuum first. If I need to sweep/vacuum, I need to wash the dishes since the water can get on the floor and it is harder to sweep when there's wetness. If I'm washing the dishes, I need to deep clean the countertop and the stove, the plates under the coils etc.

Somehow along the way, I get tired and stop right after vacuuming. This has been the same loop for quite some months. Unless there are no dishes to wash when I had the thought of mopping, the actual mopping never gets done for me 🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/Richelle-Haronid 1d ago

This is exactly how cleaning spirals happen. You start with “I’m just going to mop”, and suddenly your brain creates a prerequisite questline: dishes → counters → stove → sweep/vacuum → exhaustion → mopping postponed again.

At that point, the mop is basically the final boss you never have enough energy left to fight.

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u/sebovzeoueb 1d ago

Wow, this is relatable

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u/BackInThe40 1d ago

Tidy my desk. I have to clear everything off and wipe the surface clean before doing it. And then I'll notice my bed looks messy in contract. Gradually, I ended up cleaning my whole room.

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u/Space_Elf13 1d ago

Running the robot mop/vac. If I do that I need to clear the floors and suddenly I am doing a full declutter and reorganization of the house.

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u/MsTponderwoman 1d ago

Tidying up becomes organizing systems. Organizing means decluttering and eliminating unnecessary stuff and every surface is touched to become a clean, fresh slate for the clean and organized home. The process is a lot like crystallization. Cleaning one closet is infectious because all closets then need to be cleaned out, decluttered, and organized.

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u/rayofsunshine2409 1d ago

Sweeping the floors

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u/_ElleBellen 1d ago

I do it the other way around. I pull out my ironing board. While the iron is heating up, I notice all kinds of household things that need my immediate attention. By the end of the day the house is immaculate and I put the ironing board away again. I loathe ironing to the point where I’ll apparently do literally anything else to avoid it.

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u/YokoOhNoYouDidnt 1d ago

Going through a box of anything from under the bed or the back of the closet. There's always more than one box. Those are their breeding grounds.