Today, we're going to talk about how lowering our expectations when it comes to cleaning

can actually give us a cleaner space.

Hey, Clutterbugs and welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast.

Today we're going to talk about spring cleaning, we're going to talk about expectations,

and why we sort of see cleaning as a negative thing and why we procrastinate doing it,

or some of us just don't do it very often at all.

Last podcast, I did talk a lot about our childhood connection and how it really goes hand in

hand with how we manage our house today as adults.

So if you grew up in a household that was generally pretty messy, if your family didn't

declutter very often or make letting go of things part of a routine, if you didn't

do the dishes on a regular basis or keep up on laundry and have these schedules that

you just grew up with, things that were ingrained in you, habits that are learned.

It's really hard to know how to do these things as an adult.

This is definitely a learned behavior, but the other side is also true.

So I talked a little bit about my mom and my experience growing up in a household

that was overly cleaned.

My mom has a lot of anxiety and she really managed and sort of self-medicated that anxiety

with compulsive cleaning.

I think it gave her a sense of control, it made her feel calm, and so she, this is anytime

she was stressed out, honestly, anytime she had free time, she would constantly be cleaning

our house.

Especially, it was like to the infinity and beyond when it came to spring cleaning.

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