Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for July 05, 2023

The house gets clean whenever company warns you they are coming for a visit. It also means that a call to a workman etc almost immediate response. Add, ‘and they are bringing a one year old.’ and it is immediate response.

wait, don’t you need the blessings first to do all of that cleaning? o_O

Love the term, “priest clean.”

I prefer, “lived in”.

Clean as in evil spirits, bad vibes and howing ghosts….Oy my!

They’re heeeeerrrre…..☺️☺️

Then I’m doomed!

College kids? At least pick up the pizza boxes.

They say if you leave the vacuum cleaner out, it looks like you just didn’t have time to finish but are in the middle of it. Also, unlike the generation before me, my serious housecleaning is not a weekly thing but what I call “event-driven”.

The first thing you do is rent a portable storage unit. You throw all the miscellaneous “stuff” in there Then, you put down a few dropcloths on the living room floor and set some open cans of paint about the place. Answer the door in paint-spattered smocks and say, “Father, is it Wednesday already?”

OK, only slightly less trouble than actually cleaning. :)

It’s like cleaning the house for Pesach.

“Swedish Death Cleaning”. https://www.thespruce.com/swedish-death-cleaning-4801461

Ugh! I need to vacuum..

Blame the cats. Tell him he needs to do an exorcism. Or maybe a CATechism

I’ve never had to get my house “priest clean,” though I suspect it’s one step down from “mother-in-law clean.”