6 August 05
Cleaning House
Before we got cats, cleaning the house was something that happened sporadically and usually in a flurry before someone came over. I fess up to having had completely unpredictable (and terrifying to Numenius) fits of cleaning here and there when the piles got too big or the dust bunnies got too invasive, but mostly it was pretty lackadaisical.
Cat hair makes this kind of housekeeping no longer viable. Parts of the house get cleaned (quickly) every day; the whole house gets tidied and cleaned (again, quickly) every week.
The colonies of spiders that used to thrive high in the rafters of the living room and in the bathrom and in the bedroom are definite victims to this new houseproud regime. If the duster doesn’t get them, the cats do. They are slowly migrating back outside.
- I am a “wannabee” good housekeeper but I live with four very untidy people. This necesitates paying Kim, my wonderful housecleaner, to come in once a week to at least dust, vacuum and clean the bathroom. We find ourselves tidying the house in a hurry every Thursday before she arrives – by tidying I mean lifting things onto the beds and off surfaces so she can at least dust. Our problem is the accumulation of journals which form a “Mt Vesuvius” of paper just waiting to slide in all directions. Spiders have plenty of places to hide in our house.— Jenny 7. August 2005, 02:17 Link
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