Attention all you people who need to clean!
Would you like to clean quickly?
Would you like motivation and accountability?
Do you like chocolate?
:D

(this is not Mary)
Seriously, I want to tell you something I've started doing with my friend/co-worker Mary. This was her idea. She is a
fly lady fan and she cleans her house on Thursdays so that she doesn't have to bother with it on the weekend and she can sew, knit, and play with her cats (She was even on the show Cats 101 on Animal Planet!)
This was her idea:
We meet on facebook chat on Thursday afternoons. We each set our timer for 20 minutes and then meet back on facebook chat after the 20 minutes are over. We report on what we have done in those 20 minutes. That means I actually have to do something in those 20 minutes. Then we set the timer again, come back, and report. After we are finished, we (or at least I ) find some chocolate somewhere.
If you are someone who gets distracted easily with chores, this is a great motivational method of cleaning! You can't have Mary, she's mine, but find a friend and make cleaning fun and fast and chocolatey!
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