You could visit my house at any time and you would probably think it’s clean. The floors would be swept and the furniture dusted. Rarely could you find a dirty dish in the sink. What you wouldn’t see is that the dishwasher is full of dirty dishes and the closets are filled with crap that’s ready to fall out and impale the first one who dares to open the door. Since the “Escape the 80’s House Project” is at a standstill insofar as ME doing work (no reason to clean or paint when walls are coming out and there’s going to be drywall dust everywhere), I figured I’d do a just a little work here since we have a long weekend in the immediate future.
WHAT WAS I THINKING??
When you move huge cabinets that are too heavy to clean under/behind on a regular basis, the stuff collected behind there will quite possibly scare you. And once you get to that point, you sadly realize that you need to paint too. And steam clean tile. When my head hit the pillow last night I was in the only ‘normal’ room in the house. When I got up this morning and looked at the couch upside down in the middle of the living room, I wanted to crawl back under the covers and hide.
And for $417.24 I can get a gondola for a week. And I’m going to… everything in the garage… GONE! It’s so bad around here when Ben & Coco arrived for a visit yesterday evening, the wise 3 year-old immediately said, “Nana. Let’s go outside.”
I hope this post inspires you to think about the upcoming long weekend and how you should probably shake things up at your own house. Misery loves company you know.