I am dreaming of a cleaning caddy. Just something that can store my cleaning supplies and tools.

Seriously, I am DREAMING of it.

Every week, something comes up and I can’t just go get one. So I keep dreaming of it, lol.

I keep my cleaning supplies in a pail.

A really cute purple heart shaped pail. But It’s awkward because whenever I need to use the pail I have to take everything out and it makes a mess.

And now that I am de-cluttering and re-thinking my things and how I store them… I really want to put the cleaning stuff in a cleaning caddy and then put the caddy in the pail. Then it doesn’t take up any more space but is more convenient.

This is all complicated by the fact that I have a leaking roof. 

So I use that pail to catch water.

And then I put the pail in my bedroom closet because when it starts to leak in the spring I want to be ready. (This is where I should say I wrote this over 6 weeks ago, the snow is melting and so far - no leaks!!)

(The roof repair has been “in process” for years and I don’t want to talk about it!!!!)

So my cleaning stuff ended up…. all over.

And I don’t actually know all that I have. It makes cleaning more overwhelming than it needs to be.

So, I am dreaming of having all of my cleaning stuff corralled into one space, where it’s easy to use. Like a cleaning caddy of stuff that sits inside the pail, so everything can be used easily.

BUT as a minimalist my first impulse is to NOT buy things in order to store other things, whenever possible. I know it can help maintain order and calm but I also get overwhelmed by having a lot of “stuff” and it counts as more “stuff”.

We can have contradicting parts.

We can have contradicting dreams. 

That’s why it’s so good to pay attention to our feelings.

My frustration about how my cleaning supplies seems like a small insignificant thing but it’s a signal from myself to pay attention. My dream of having a cleaning caddy is a tiny dream but still relevant.

And when we ignore the signals about little things, it gets harder to hear the signals about the big things.

 

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