2025 has been full of challenge. I’ve been doing more for Mum and while my definition and threshold of a messy house may not look messy to others, I feel like it need to get a grip on it because I’m uncomfortable.

I know what’s going on. When I feel emotionally rocky, I need to assert control over my surroundings and there’s a lot going on and winter is coming so for the rest of the month and most of September, I’m going to be working on my spaces and routine so that I can push through the next bit.

I’m pretty good at the small stuff in the flat, I wash up every night, I make my bed every day, the laundry is on a regular schedule, I clean my bathroom sink and toilet every night. I’m more or less tidy but there are a couple of things that I need to do more often because they are beginning to drive me insane. My things in the house are the floors (especially in the kitchen), hoovering and ironing. I actually do more of that for my mum than at my own house, which is ridiculous.

There are a couple of other things, so two new daily tasks need to be habit of sweeping or hoovering the kitchen floor every day after I’ve done the washing up. I really don’t understand how it gets so dusty but it really does and for the moment, I need to empty the food waste every day too because it’s warm and I hate fruit flies.

New weekly tasks also about floors, are hoovering and mopping the other rooms in the flat and getting to the ironing once a week instead of letting it build up and doing it when I have no more ironed clothes.

That’s the cleaning routine but I also need to have a declutter of the flat, because the flat feels more crowded than I am comfortable with, I’m just going to go through the cupboards in the house one at a time and hopefully by Christmas, it’ll feel better.

I just need to push through and pay attention at home for a couple of months and it’ll become second nature!