I was going to put off shining my sink per the FlyLady until Thursday, but I decided to see if Sarra was right. I don't have a rubber stopper for one side of my sink so I shined the one side I could plug up as an experiment. Would a shiny sink really have that big of an impact?
Not gonna lie, it took me a couple hours to do this. All I had to do was move the dirty dishes from one side of the sink to the other and fill it up with hot water. Easy, right? Hah! I seriously did not want to do it. I started at 3PM and finished at 7:45PM. This is a job where for one hour you merely soak the sink in hot, bleach water and then scrub it with baking soda. In total, all the elbow grease on my part took about 20 minutes. That 20 minutes took a long time after draining the water.
Weird thing though, after I scrubbed and polished, I wanted to empty the dishwasher, put the clean ones away, and put the dirty ones in the dishwasher. I haven't wanted to do that in months. In fact, my mom and my sister have been the only one's to wash my dishes in the past month. I've helped but they really did all the dirty work.
Will definitely be shining the other half of the sink Thursday. Tomorrow is a workday so it should be easier to dress to the shoes than on a non-workday. If I put on makeup and fix my hair that will be a huge plus. I think this is something I can definitely keep up.....hopefully. Everything I've read so far on the FlyLady site is similar to what my counselor told me about establishing routines.
Well hallelujah! Isn't that something, how a shiny sink does that to you? It happened that way for me too. Congratulations and make sure to keep the sink shining and happy before you move on to the next thing. Make that a habit first so that your routine doesn't fall apart - as has been the case with me so many billions of times.
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