Silly wabbit, I don't have any REAL cleaning tricks. Well, actually just one. If you spill red wine on a white carpet, quickly spill white wine on the spill and it will prevent a stain. Should you be drinking solo or are all out of white wine, get your party guests to lift your couches as you turn your area rug counterclockwise until the impending stain will be safely hidden under a sofa or table. Note: this trick is limited in how many times you can use it.
Anyway, cleaning tonight was a challenge. My wonderful mother came by today to watch my daughter as I cleaned my upstairs and my husband cleaned our basement. So naturally for the first two hours my mother was here I went grocery shopping.
So, after putting away groceries and cooking dinner in a hurry, I started to clean the kitchen. Well, kinda. I played musical countertops. You know, the game where you take everything off most of the counters and dump it on one counter, so the clutter is pile high versus spread out. Somehow, the effect is a seemingly neater house. Same amount of junk cluttered differently appears to shrink.
Now, musical countertops has long been a staple of my cleaning routine. I usually, as I did today, pile everything on the kitchen table where I can comfortably sit with my morning coffee and go through the junk mail that seems to multiply in the mail box like some sort of petri dish. And if you are being completely honest, I am sure you've played some version of musical countertops at least a couple times. Sometimes, it is all the cleaning I have energy for. I did after all vacuum this morning, grocery shop, put away the groceries, cook dinner, feed the baby several times, play with the baby and figured out how to download the program required to transfer the pictures from my cell phone to my MAC. I haven't figured out how to transfer pictures, so that is top of my to do list tomorrow. After changing diapers and nursing a hungry baby. If I am lucky, the game of musical countertops will end tomorrow night with me actually going through that pesky junk mail.
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