I feel so accomplished!

[Melalvai]

Wow! What an energetic woman!! I need one of those bursts around my place. Isn't it a great feeling when you are done?

You need* something to trigger the "nesting instinct", like the end of a pregnancy, or a traumatic event. I haven't stopped cleaning since we got my daughter home. Unfortunately I'm easily distracted so it's not very effective cleaning. It goes like this:
Hm, I need a drink of wat--
I'll clean the cast iron sk--
Oh, I need to swap the laundry.

In the end the laundry is still in the washer, the cast iron skillet still on the stove, and I never did get that drink of water!

*not really

[Cataboo]

I typically clean when I am going to have people over (I'm not sure why, everyone knows I'm a slob, but I'd rather not make them put up with it - okay, I will qualify that with - I'm not dirty dirty, the bathrooms get cleaned regularly, so it's not disgusting, there's just gear or equipment or projects everywhere) or when there is some other task that I really don'twant to do, so I procrastinate by cleaning as an act of desperation.