Frantically Cleaning
Jun. 8th, 2009 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI have family coming over.
My house is the way it is based on desultory cleaning most of the time, combined with periodic more thorough cleaning when something bothers me, combined with frantic cleaning when guests are about to come over.
So I end up frantically cleaning about two or three times a year. I don't just sweep the floors (desultory cleaning) I mop the floors and dry them on hands and knees with a towel because otherwise the local hard water leaves white spots. I don't just put books on bookshelves, I dust bookshelves. I don't just pile important papers on a desk or in a corner, I go through the piles of once-important papers, discarding the ones that aren't important anymore and filing (most of) the rest. I have ambitions of washing the windows, but hesitate to go so far as to promise that this will actually, you know, *happen* this time.
I expect it is this that keeps me from having to saw whole rooms off the house when they get full. But it feels like I'm cheating--trying to make it look like I keep house this way all the time.
However I need to keep in mind, as Peteralway pointed out "Frantic cleaning three times a year *is* normal."
My house is the way it is based on desultory cleaning most of the time, combined with periodic more thorough cleaning when something bothers me, combined with frantic cleaning when guests are about to come over.
So I end up frantically cleaning about two or three times a year. I don't just sweep the floors (desultory cleaning) I mop the floors and dry them on hands and knees with a towel because otherwise the local hard water leaves white spots. I don't just put books on bookshelves, I dust bookshelves. I don't just pile important papers on a desk or in a corner, I go through the piles of once-important papers, discarding the ones that aren't important anymore and filing (most of) the rest. I have ambitions of washing the windows, but hesitate to go so far as to promise that this will actually, you know, *happen* this time.
I expect it is this that keeps me from having to saw whole rooms off the house when they get full. But it feels like I'm cheating--trying to make it look like I keep house this way all the time.
However I need to keep in mind, as Peteralway pointed out "Frantic cleaning three times a year *is* normal."
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-06-08 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 02:22 am (UTC)You said it when I was cleaning house for you and the Greatest Carpool Ever to stay at my place on the way to GaFilk...um...last year I think it was.
no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 02:42 am (UTC)Oh so witty
I fill witty and spitty and...uh...
Oh, nevermind.