I'm moving out of my house in December. I gave my landlords' required 60-day notice, and now we enter the 2 months of keeping the house clean enough to show at all times. Ugh.
See, I'm not much of a housekeeper. I subscribe to more of a clutter collecting, critical-mass approach to home maintenance. Like, the cat hair on the living room carpet doesn't exist unless you can discern its color from the front door. Or if a bedroom door is closed when you arrive at my house, it's probably best that you don't open it unless you want to be crushed by the enormous tottering pile of chaos on the other side. That sort of thing.
Now, though, I have to do something about the non-public areas of my house, because I'm pretty sure anyone who is thinking about living there might want to see ALL the rooms, not just the ones that I have deemed fit for public consumption (generally speaking: kitchen, living room, one bathroom...and heaven forbid anyone arrives earlier than expected) And I have to clean them for real, too, because they're probably going to want to see the closets.
But you know...this will be good for me. If it takes 3 weeks to form a habit, surely I'll have this daily housekeeping nonsense down by December. And then I'll just be that much better off when we merge the two households again. Either that, or we'll know for sure that we need to budget for a real housekeeper.
Posted by Joy at October 29, 2007 11:31 AMMerge the two households? Does that mean you are moving back in with your husband?
Posted by: Mrs. Chubster on November 1, 2007 10:45 PM
Does that mean you are getting back with the hubby? Hope you don't mind the question. You don't have to post this comment, just send me an email :) (If you want...of course)
Posted by: Trish on November 2, 2007 08:41 AM