My home my rules! Cleaning whenever I want 🫧

I have a huge obssession with smell of detergent and soaps. Everytime I visit a store or esp, a supermarket, my legs will bring me to the soap section or laundry detergent. I can spent a good 15mins just staring and sniffing each and every cleaning product I can find. Am I the only one?

So its by no means I am in looove cleaning and everything that smells of it. Be it mopping the floors, showers, washing the dishes and my #1 fav, washing the laundry.

This morning I literally stood infront of the washing machine at 6-7am watching my washing machine does it job. While taking just one break in between to go to the loo. It was so fun. I took notes and realised that with a full load laundry; it will be 50mins long. Count down at 26min will be the 2nd rinse cycle and then 16min mark will be the last rinse cycle. I used to manually add in my softener at the 2nd rinse cycle and no wonder my clothes kinda feel yucky. Its suppose to be the last rinse cycle!!

Anyways, thats just a part of my cleaning obssession. My google & lemon8 & tiktok search bar is filled with searches of 'detergent capsule' 'top detergent' etc LOL Its so therapeutic to cleaaan as though im cleaning my head.

Right when I moved in in this apartment. I did a thorough cleaning & scrubbed each and every floor tile with clorox wipes and wipe off every grime n dirt with my gloved hands while being on all four. Talk about how satisfying it feels to see the once dirty tiles looking so white, pretty and clean. It turned out a better shape than it is before. During the first few months, I was sweeping and mopping at least twice to 4 times a day( akin to scrubbing off the negative thoughts off my head). It also happens thst my room gets dusty v often because of the building construction next to me so I have to mop the floor regardless every single day. Now that it is completed, I don't do mopping dailies anymore. Just sweeping 2x a day & mopping alternate days.

Typically, I reach home 6pm on a Wednesday evening and Id hope on the shower straight and wash up. By 9pm I will load my laundry in the washing machine and by 10pm I will hang up on clothes onto the clothes dryer and switch it on to dry till the next day.

On a Thursday morning, I will wake up 4am every morning and start my full day morning. The first thing I do waking up will be throwing my bedsheets in the washing machine and start prepping and cooking my food. About 1h in, my laundry is done, then, I will switch washing machine mode to air dry to wicked out the moisture from the bedsheets more and so it'll dry faster. By the time it is 7am, my 3 days worth of food is prepped into lunch boxes and let on on the counter to cool down while I wash up my dishes and hop onto the shower and hoist myself off the smell of food. Before that, I will turn off the clothes dryer and keep the blue outer shell in the wardrobe to let it continue air dry. After washinf up and getting myself ready, I will use the flat sweeper/mop and clean up my room. Dry sweep 2x then mop using 3x baby wipes sprayed with lemongrass on it to the entire room. This smells amazing and helps to ward off pests. Then, I will stop the air dry washing machine mode and hang my bedsheets up. By the time I am done it is 7.40am and Im off to work to reach by 8am!

But of course this is not typically every week.

In fact I havent been cooking the past 2 weeks and been surviving on kopitiam vouchers I won from a company event. I sleep at my parents on the weekend so I bring 3 meals from my parents and eat it for lunch at work for Mon - Wedn, whilst skipping dinner. Then buying lunch on thurs and fri eating out with colleagues.

In the beginning it was quite a tiring routine but now I am getting used to it. Even dry sweeping my room 2x because of my hairfall and flat mopping my floors once every 2 days just to make sure my room smells fresh and wards out any pests.

So how do you guys do your chores? Let me know in the comments when do you do them~

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