Help I don't like cleaning

Just sitting here in office surrounded by the detrius of a two-year research project for Defra. All paper work completed and emailed and a new bid for funding submitted. Feeling pleased with ourselves but now have to vacate office by Friday and all the packing up, shredding, filing, etc. is overwhelming us.

So have I made a start? No. Sent the team out for an extended lunch break and I've logged into GN.

Someone tell me to get of my posterior and get started please.

But can you be happy in a grubby and untidy house? I find it "gets" at me.

Tidying alone can work wonders though.

Cleaning? - what is that?

My theory is that there is no point in dusting until there is a good thick layer and you can enjoy sweeping it away!

Life is too bloomin' short - on your deathbed, do you want to be thinking of all the wonderful polished surfaces that you achieved or all the fun you had?

Of course, your idea of fun might be dusting, in which case I am lost for words!!!

pattie - surely remember the 70s and feminism? Just because you are not economically active does not mean you should be spending your time cleaning or that you should prove to the world that you are a good person because you have an immaculate house. That kind of thinking is the product of centuries of conditioning by men - aimed at keeping women submissive and servile.
Discuss with your DH how tidy/clean you want it to be and then decide on a strategy - either pay someone or the two of you agree an approach.

pattib, I don't like cleaning either. I don't iron (just fold carefully), and have even been known to blow the hair-drier along the dressing table as I'm drying my hair . I have a tiny house that is quite full of old things (not all antiques!) so a bit of dust seems to set them off quite well .
If you're worrying about things getting on top of you, though, how about just deciding to tackle one room at a time? Only one room, and not moving on to do another one until you've disposed of rubbish and hoovered and polished that particular room? Some people are naturally very clean and tidy, and some are more 'homely'......like me !

You've got to pay someone else to do it! You don't have to employ a cleaner, get a company in to do a 'one off' catch up clean and then try your best till it gets out hand again! I also hate housework, I used to be stupid enough to "clean house" every Saturday morning when DH plays golf, till one day I had a lightbulb moment and spent the morning on the couch watching a movie, and since then, that's my Saturday mornings sorted .

Perhaps you are just noticing it because you are at home more? If that is the case I think you have two simple choices:

1 Go out more
2 Make yourself do one room a week and when you have done them all forget all about i!

I have no time for those who boast that they love housework. If they really do then they should keep it as their guilty secret.

Good luck, it is probably just part of the adjustment of retirement,

No, because I'm the same! I hate cleaning and it's something I put off until someone's coming round - and even then it's just a quick dust and hoover downstairs. I am a slob!

I have a cleaner. Otherwise my house would be a tip.
Actually it is at the moment as dd DGD and DDs so have just left. Amazing what havoc a 17/12 old can wreak!