Welcome or welcome back to the seventh day in our 12 Days of Chaos series, which is a special series I've been doing for us to try and stay on top of our homes in the midst of this chaotic season where so much is going on. They often fall to the wayside, and it's just a fun little thing to encourage yourself to do some basics. Just it's a play off of the 12 Days of Christmas. So each day I'm introducing a new task, and then we're playing repeat on the days prior.
Each time I'm saying no more than five minutes, set a quick five-minute timer, and you just roll through the little tasks. Today's specific task, actually, before I jump in, my apologies if it sounds like there is some haunting of a ghost in the background.
I am in I live north of Atlanta and we are having the windiest day and I swear there is like an eerie howl blowing through this room so if you can hear that on the podcast I do not know if it will show up or not that is what that is I'm I actually put a Christmas tree on my front porch and I was so afraid it was going to blow away that this morning I got up and I grabbed every like hand weight and there's like ankle weights and I've,
attach them all to the base of that tree in hopes that it doesn't like blow into the neighbor's yard. So wish me luck on that. I will be checking it periodically through the day in hopes that it hasn't just, you know, tumbled its way through the neighborhood. Anyway, I'm sorry, I digress. Let's jump into what day seven of the 12 days of chaos is. So day seven, I am calling seven dusted surfaces. So grab your dust rag out, hit a five-minute timer.
This is not perfection. You're not moving every little tchotchke. You are just whipping through and dusting some things. If it causes you to straighten up a coffee table right before you dust it, bonus. If it causes you to notice a space that you've been neglecting and didn't even realize the dust had piled up that much because you don't regularly dust as a habit, awesome. Just set the five-minute timer. The number of items you get to is literally just to have fun with the song.
I don't care if you get to seven surfaces or if you are just flying through and get to 20 surfaces. The goal is that you're hitting the five-minute timer. So if you are wanting to donate some of those minutes to a different task that you would like to spend more time in, then actually count the seven items and then bank whatever minutes you have left on your timer and start doing the thing that you wanted to do more, which is also a good way to just get ourselves up and moving to roll through.
So in our repeated nature, we're doing the seven dusted surfaces. Six swept floors, five minute tidy, four clean surfaces, three clean bathrooms, two fluffy pillows, and a sew that to set priorities. And if you're not sure what any of that means because you've somehow stumbled upon this particular episode in the midst of this series, go back and find episode one.
The other thing I wanted to mention as just a reminder, I have a free podcast community where there is a downloadable that goes with this that you can keep track of your progress. You are more than welcome to pop in there and grab that. While you're in there, I have been doing a live every single day, sort of demonstrating how this is working, encouraging you to get up and clean with me. Those are all in there as well, if you would like to check those out.
To get there, you go into any browser window and you type in bit.ly slash joylovinghomecommunity and you will arrive at my community and join us. And it's a lovely group of people in there. So if that sounds interesting to you, please do that.
Also there is an adhd christmas planner in there for access to sort of a non-linear pending list a fun little way to to get yourself through the holidays to prepare all the things you're wishing you would prepare so that you're not the worst procrastinator ever so that is in there and please by all means jump on that as well and then i also wanted to let you know that the joy loving Home membership community, which is $10 a month.
You join anytime, cancel anytime. There's no set number of months you have to sign up for, but it is currently open. It will be open until January 5th at midnight. Yeah. And you get there by going to joylovinghome.com slash membership. And before I jump off, I did want to also ask you to please consider if you would love to give me a gift. The best thing you could do for me is to leave a review wherever you listen to the podcast. I would so appreciate it. Until next time, continue to choose joy.