Cleaning Style of a Do-It-Yourselfer

From the blog of “Skdo” from Midwest,United States

“My process for cleaning our home”

• Begin with checking email, reading friends’ blogs and posting to own blog
• Check email again, just in case I have received one in the last ½ hour
• Eat dinner and dish up seconds
• Spellcheck latest blog post and correct stupid errors like “Grameboy”
• Walk into living room, kitchen, dining room area, sigh heavily and ponder where to begin
• Walk into living room, put everything that is on the floor onto the ottoman for later sorting
• Decide jeans are too tight for cleaning, climb stairs and put on PJ pants
• Pick up needy cat, listen to her purr, ponder lying down on bed with said cat, decide marital peace and a clean house are currently higher priorites
• Descend stairs, enter office, pull up MS Word on laptop to jot down process thus far so I don’t have to remember too much
• Wonder if I do in fact have adult ADD as some have suggested
• Keep typing draft of this blog post
• Return to living room to put stuff that is on floor onto ottoman
• Find obscure things on living room floor, like super mega sized ice scraper, blame children
• Hang up coats that previously filled hall closet but had to be removed so maintenance could spray enzyme cleaner on the hallway carpet after TT flooded the hallway
• Realize I forgot to blog the story about TT flooding the hallway with his bathwater
• Seriously wonder where husband is…have no idea

Read the rest of her blog entry here: http://skdo.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-process-for-cleaning-our-home.html

Attention to Detail – And Then Some

The most heartfelt thank you’s come from homeowners who have discovered a cleaning fairy spent time under their kitchen sink. Clean the bottles?? Yes, I’ll admit to paying this much attention to detail. Not only are things arranged by category, the labels face forward AND they are no longer sticky to touch.

originally uploaded by PoppyBuxom.

 

Beloved Housekeeper

When I moved from Minneapolis to The Lakes Area I knew it would be difficult to leave my families – there were definite tears. Now I look forward to filling my schedule with new families in the coming months.

Housekeepers and their families become attached. In this case, “Aunt Mary” was included in a family plot – a place of honor.

link to the original photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shani_stuff/389681175/