This house is clean

[bunchofgrapes]

Many, many years ago, a co-worker used to comment on how she needed to go home to clean because the cleaning lady was coming the next day. This was something I could never comprehend. If a woman was coming to clean your house, why do you need to clean it first? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Yesterday I got an estimate from Silvia to clean my house once a month. I spend most of my weekend doing yard work or cleaning the house but I feel like the house is winning. Silvia cleans my friend's house and her parents house and they love her so I got her number and actually called. She came out yesterday so I could meet her and she could see the place and give me an estimate. Her estimate was extremely reasonable so she's coming tomorrow morning.

After she left, I immediately knew what my co-worker meant. Looking around the place, I realized that I needed to clean up the clutter so she could actually clean. So I have spent the entire weekend attacking the clutter. Having a cleaning person come is like watching that show, Hoarders. I was tossing stuff right and left, filling up the recycling bin with magazines and junk mail, and getting together a box of stuff to donate.

So yeah, to get your house cleaned, you first have to clean your house.

Comments

[spottedhorse.livejournal.com]

I remember when my Mom was getting her house ready to sell. My brother hired a cleaning lady to come once a week, just to be sure that things were clean because Mom was no longer very good at doing that; she liked her clutter and had little nests of it everywhere. It was my assignment to go help her prepare for the cleaning lady. It took four days to get the nests cleared up so that the lady could do her job. But once she arrived, it was like magic. In three hours, Wanda had achieved what it would have taken me a full day to clean with my mother. And the bonus was that after Wanda started coming, Mom kept her nests picked up because company was coming.

[snowydragon1776.livejournal.com]

Very sad but true. My mom does the same thing.