“If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet her with, ‘Who could have done this? We have no enemies.’”
-----Phyllis Diller
· We’re “Only When Company is Coming” cleaners. The house only really gets cleaned—especially the bathroom—when someone is coming to visit over-night.
· We barely ever clean our bedroom, and we never make our bed. It’s revenge against my parents for all those times they forced me to clean my childhood bedroom.
· The bathroom is my least favorite part of the house to clean.
· We are notorious non-dish do-ers. Fortunately, we are expert rinsers. The dishes get rinsed really well and then sit on the counter-top until we feel like washing them.
· I never dust. I always just vacuum. The attachment works really well for sucking the dust off things.
i cannot TELL you how much this resonates with my beliefs and feelings about cleaning. and i thought i was a filthy pig. nope. guess i'm just like the masses! :O)
ReplyDeleteI have a small house so picking up is a necessity. i make my bed everyday because it gives me a sense of control in my chaotic world, but everything else gets wiped down with those pre-moistened wipes and that's it.
ReplyDeleteI hate when things in my space are TOO messy because I get easily frustrated and can't find anything. But let's just say it takes a long time to get to TOO messy! I am not a fan of dirty homes, but messy I can stand. Does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteMakes total sense, Beth.
ReplyDeleteThere's a big different between dirty and messy.
I'm definitely just messy.
No filth. Just clutter.
LOL - I will have to remember that quote. It is unfortunately always appropriate in our house!
ReplyDeleteI laughed aloud when I read that quote - fantastic. I need an excuse. My excuse has always been that our house is too small. We are planning to build a big one with lots of storage some day, so that's when I'll really change and become clean and tidy....I hope!
ReplyDeleteI am so with you on bathrooms, bed making and dusting. Funnily, we are good dish washers in our house...mainly because DH does it. I cook, he cleans up afterwards. The perfect relationship.
I hired someone to clean!
ReplyDeleteI don't make my bed, and don't require my children to make their's. I'm rebelling against an ex-husband who got nasty if I didn't make the bed. Take THAT!