How to Keep House While Drowning

I follow KC on TikTok and picked up this book because I often find myself in this endless cycle of clean, clean, clean - home is messy for days on days on days - then clean, clean, clean and repeat. Some of her tips are things that we already strive to do, like setting a timer for 10 minutes and agreeing to tackle the dishes for just those 10 minutes. Her statements about cleaning being morally neutral really struck home; despite having gone to therapy, I had never thought to analyze my feelings about cleaning (before and after). That “good feeling” after I clean my home feels so good and I had never considered that that could be contributing to this cycle. I plan to spend more time with the idea that cleaning is a function - like eating - and you can reduce it to the reason that it needs to be done to reframe it as a simple, morally neutral function.

I appreciated a lot of the little takeaway quotes she gave. Example: “You are not responsible for saving the world if you are struggling to save yourself.” Or “Anything worth doing is worth doing partially.” Her 5 category cleaning method also seems quite effective - I wish I had used that when I was going through depression a few years ago. And, finally, my favorite “Good enough is perfect.”