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When I was single, I kept a pretty darn tidy home. Perhaps my neatness was the result of the importance my mother always placed upon cleaning and chores. My brother and I were given numerous responsibilities as small children and, as long as I can remember, my chores included putting my laundry away, polishing my shoes and helping with the family's laundry. As I added men/boys to my life, I've had to relax my cleanliness expectations to maintain my sanity, but some days I go into a hyper-cleaning mode. Today was one of those days when everywhere I looked, I saw something which displeased me... the little grates on the microwave... the vegetable bin in the refrigerator......the blades of the ceiling fans... As I again wished that our former cleaning woman could get legal immigration status, I dove in and began neatening up the external in the hopes that the end result would be a cleaner house, as well as a more tranquil mind. For the record, I don't dislike cleaning, I just have a tendency to approach cleaning in a manner that is a bit ADD which prevents me from accomplishing as much as I would like. Particularly when thoughts like those below are streaming through my head at about 100 miles per hour.
- Why can't we simply throw away (recycle, donate) things we do not need or use? Is it really necessary to hold on to stuff in a quasi-Purgatory?
- I love my Dyson vacuum cleaner but even without the commercials, I would know a man designed it. It works great, but it isn't always intuitive, to me, how to dismantle it to use the "wand." And, please don't call it a "wand" if it doesn't involve magic. I hate to be disappointed.
- When is this great "paper-less" society going to begin? I'm so sick of paper and mail and catalogs and don't get me started on the campaign literature... I must admit, however, that I struggle with discarding personal notes and cards I've received and I would like to think that if I sent you something you would want to keep it, too.
- If we could discover a means to use dust as a source of power it would be the ultimate form of renewable energy.
- I know that one day I will miss cleaning up the boys' splashes in the bathroom, but, right now I'd be happier if they just had better aim.
Catalogs, unwanted junk mail, and especially this time of year, campaign mailings never make it into my house...they immediately go into recycle. The catalogs are unwanted as I have told these people that I appreciate their stuff online. You cannot imagine how much clutter this takes care of! Try it out- it works!
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