For all those who are cleaning madly in preparation for holiday festivities, allow me to share with you my wisdom:
1. Do not clean for a party. Sweep, don’t mop,and only vacuum lightly if you need to. Only one person will be able to appreciate the clean house, then when the first group of people arrive they’ll start trashing the place anyway. I go to parties and I never notice if it’s clean, and you KNOW how critical and judgmental I am.
2. I just found this out – do not clean before you go on vacation. Sure, it’s nice to come back to a clean house, but it’s even nicer to have a good sleep before you leave.
3. I can’t wait to get sick this winter, because if there is ever a time I have an urge to clean is if I am sick. I just can’t be sick in a messy house. And now that I’m relaxing my standards, I might want to try it.
5 responses to “Unclean! Unclean!”
Please tell me at least the bathroom will be clean for tea?
Sure. Well … the guest bathroom will be clean.
I HAVE to clean before I go on vacation. It’s a compulsion. Last time I went away I didn’t clean the bathroom, and when I got back I fell into a two-day depression as soon as I saw the damn dirty bathroom. Then I got really lazy and didn’t clean it for a week.I have issues.
Carrie, I’m telling you, I was like you once. Let the cleaning go. For more than a week.
Liar. You noticed my floor. Then again, it’s pretty obviously dirty.I love the feeling of coming home to a clean house after a vacation, plus cleaning before leaving makes me feel like I’ve earned the vacation.