Friday, June 19, 2009

Clean

While traveling along the road of "Stay at Home Mom," I realized...it may have benefited me to have taken a Home Economics class somewhere in my education.

Now, I am sure I never took Home Economics because it was regular credit (instead of GT or AP credit), which in turn would have hurt my ever so important GPA.

I realize, today, that I may have been short sighted. A home economics course would have proven to be quite useful for me. Well, it would have saved me some time googling things on the internet like "how to remove calcium deposits from sinks."

I have come upon a realization during my constant path of self-evaluation...that although my apartment is tidy and organized. It really is not, what you might call, CLEAN. Now, it's not dirty either. It's just not CLEAN.

So I ask you. I pose you this question. What exactly makes a house clean? Is it that there is never dust on the baseboards? Or mildew growing in the space between the tiles in the showers? Or calcium buildup in the sink area? What makes a house CLEAN? And how do you obtain this? Do you have a monthly schedule on when to do the heavy duty stuff? How do you keep your bathrooms/tiles/sinks looking like new?

I need some help here. So if you have some tips. Send them my way in the Comments section.

Thank you for helping me further my housewifery education.

Love,
P

4 comments:

Suzanne said...

I think keeping a house clean is really difficult in general with the day-to-day activities that everyone has to go through. If dust on the baseboards indicates cleanliness, then I am screwed. If it makes you feel any better, I have a ton of friends who just have a maid come once every two weeks or three weeks. Plus, they don't even have kids. I say as long as your kitchen and bathroom are cleaned, then you are golden!

Mary said...

When I got married, I was given a book called "Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House". And basically the author says every day should be an assigned task. Mondays: bathrooms. Tuesdays: vacuuming. Wednesday: silver polishing (joking! sort of!).

It's an interesting read. Now if only I could put it into practice....

Oh, and there's also Flylady. www.flylady.com. She'll get your house clean!

Portia said...

So sorry... my philosophy is "if I can't see the dirt, it isn't dirty..." And sometimes I add in "without corrective lenses..."

Sally Besancon said...

Cleaning is overrated. Play instead.