I have a confession to make. Brace yourself, it’s a big one.
I’m a messy person.
There are dishes in the sink from 4 days ago. There’s dirty laundry on the floor, and clean laundry piled on our dining table. My xbox games look like they’re taking over our entertainment center. The bathroom sink is covered in a combination of facial hair, cat hair, toothpaste and mouthwash stains. Our coffee tables has the remnants of a few fast food meals. And theres a pile of old mail on our kitchen island that looks like the beginning of a Horders episode.
But you’ll never see any of this.
Because if you ever call us one night and say you’re on your way over and you’ll be here in 15 minutes, Megan and I suddenly develop super speed not even the Flash can compete with. And 11.5 minutes later, when we answer the door sweaty and out of breath, I promise we weren’t finishing up a quickie–we were making our place spotless and awesome for you, our guest.
And the first thing you’ll comment on is how our place always looks so perfect, while we ask you to mind the mess.
Crazy, right? But I know we can’t be the only ones that do the cleaning dash whenever someone calls unexpectedly and says they’re stopping by.
But I do think we may be the only ones who invite people over a couple times a week to force ourselves to clean our house.
I’m not sure why we don’t clean up regularly. We just don’t.We’re too busy. We’re too lazy. We’re hardly ever home, We’re home so often the mess blends into the background. Pick your excuse-any excuse-we don’t care.
For whatever reason, we just don’t clean regularly. We tried setting up a cleaning schedule “We’ll clean on Mondays, since it’s our day off from work” Yeah, we did that once. Why? Because it’s our day off from work! Who wants to clean then? Not me.
But you’ll never see place a mess. Because even though we don’t clean on a regular basis, when we do clean, man do we clean!
Come over and you’d swear we were allergic to dust and dirt and grime and filth, because you won’t find any of it in our home.
Keep that in mind if we ever invite you over. Yes, we may really want to hang out with you, but what we want even more is a clean house.
LOL – Nick – I totally do this!!!!! I clean and clean and clean…and then tell people I didn’t have a chance to clean so to please excuse the mess. It takes the knowledge that somebody will be coming over to judge me and my place for me to actually put forth the effort.
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I try to clean, and then keep the clutter to a minimum. Sure…my makeup is all over the counter in the bathroom. But you could drink water from my toilet and it’s as clean as it is when you get it from my refrigerator door!! That’s your answer-CLEAN on your day off. DE-CLUTTER in an emergency!