I don't know what it is about being at someone else's house but it makes me actually desire to clean. I mean I want my house to be clean and I love it when it is, but the actually doing it part I struggle with. We are staying at my sister-in-laws for a few days to keep her children while she and her husband are on an anniversary trip and I have done a GREAT job keeping her kitchen clean. I even mopped, and I don't mop. Hubby usually does the mopping around our house because it hurts my back and shoulder but he does it on the weekends and I really wanted to mop SIL's kitchen last night as the finishing touch of the work I did so I did. I love the smell of Pinesol too. I mean I could do one of their commercials I like it so much. Maybe it was easy to want to do the dishes here b/c she has a beautiful, large kitchen. Or maybe it was b/c I had access to her dishwasher (which I don't have at home). I don't know what it is but it was actually enjoyable and I'm excited for them to come home to a fresh clean kitchen.
I've always been weird about cleaning at other peoples houses though. It is just a habit that as soon as I get done with something I want to clean up whatever it is but at my own house, I have the "I'll do it in a minute" mentality. It makes no sense to me. I mean I cooked last night, my family plus her two boys ate, and then I had to do the dishes. That is the exact same as at my house but for some reason, here I got up immediately from the table and cleaned up. Then after Hubby got home and ate I immediately got up and cleaned the final dishes. WHY NOT AT MY HOUSE? It really makes me mad at myself. I should be just as excited to have the house clean for Hubby to come home to as I am to have the house clean for SIL and her husband to come home to. So I think we should do a show called House Swap where a few ladies get together and swap house cleaning for a day. I mean think about it, you leave your house messy and smelly and come home to a clean aromatic home. Each lady would use her own cleaning supplies and that way you would come home to "new" smells and it may entice us to use different cleaners ourselves, when we discover theirs work or smell better than our own all time favorites. Plus it would help us to know how to clean our "hard to clean" areas because one of the other women is bound to know a trick or two. I know I'm weird and it would never actually happen for me but still, I can dream right. And that would probably only happen once a week so we would still be responsible for the day to day humdrum that I always "can do in a minute". Oh well, for now I am going to sit back and enjoy the smell of PineSol and listen to the wonderful music of a dishwasher running. Yes I meant to say music, when you don't have a dishwasher that sound is music.
4/26/2011
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