Claire
Master Chef
Oh, dearie me. What a subject. I live in an old (1854) house that seems to grow cobwebs and dust bunnies. Most of my friends also live in old houses. Last year I had a friend who had a medical emergency. I've always considered myself a bit of a slob, then realized that most of my friends consider me a neat-nik. But going into this friend's home unexpectedly made me re-think my own house cleaning habits. Husband and I have gotten lazy in recent years. We had a tendency to scrub the place top to bottom when we were having company, and lazy in between. After helping this friend settle in, I realized that I don't want anyone to see my house looking like hers did that day.
So, I bought a vacuum cleaner (remember that line?)(Hoover won the test, and I'm happy with it)(the old Oreck went to the upstairs for cleaning those rooms without having to lug a cleaner up & down). I'm just trying to get better at maintenance cleaning rather than what hubby and I joked as "white tornado" cleaning; that is to say: let everything go to hades and spending a day scrubbing everything when we know someone is visiting.
What is your housecleaning concept? How often do you do what, when?
So, I bought a vacuum cleaner (remember that line?)(Hoover won the test, and I'm happy with it)(the old Oreck went to the upstairs for cleaning those rooms without having to lug a cleaner up & down). I'm just trying to get better at maintenance cleaning rather than what hubby and I joked as "white tornado" cleaning; that is to say: let everything go to hades and spending a day scrubbing everything when we know someone is visiting.
What is your housecleaning concept? How often do you do what, when?