Cleaning is not final

| Way of life | 2 Comments

Today was my cleaning day again. However, one wonders whether or not there is a more efficient way to keep one's house spic and span. For example, in order to be able to vacuum the kids rooms, all the junk has to be removed from the floor and preferably returned to their rightful spots. That is exactly what I did. The most work was taken up in Maarten's room, because there were still a number of half-opened boxed and packages from his birthday party yesterday. Alright easy enough. At last I could run the vacuum cleaner along his floor, make his bed and arrange his furniture back to where it belongs. All in a days work you might say. Well, two hours later I returned to his room to see how it was going with his playmate and him. My chin dropped and I almost fainted. The room had gone back in time, the exact time being this morning just before I first entered his room to clean it up. In other words a "complete mess" to say the least. Shock and dismay and I wondering all the time if I was really cut out for this cleaning day stuff. The more efficient way would have been to wait until the very end of the day before cleaning the room. Perhaps the chaos might have been slightly greater, but at least one round of cleaning activities would have been sufficient. But one thing I have learned is that no matter what point in time you choose there will always be ten more points in time just a little later when actions are negated and it is time to start all over again. Do not clean thinking that it is final, not even for an hour, perhaps for a minute but not much longer. Words of wisdom from a pseudo trainee house-cleaner kind of guy. Tomorrow will be yet another day and another turn of the dial which cycles around and around.

2 Comments

Ah! The image of a man pushing a vacuum round the house, priceless. But seriously, there's never a good time to clean. You just do it and then? Stop thinking about it till the next time you look and think, sheesh, time to clean, whether it's been a few days or a couple of weeks. Life as a haus frau. ;-)

Like I said: cleaning is a continuous process which we should never neglect, in a physical as well as a spiritual sense.

Random entries

Here are some random entries that you might be interested in:

Recent Assets

  • 2023-09-24-jong-tegen-oud-1.jpg
  • 2023-09-24-jong-tegen-oud-2.jpg
  • just-call-me-fred.png
  • foggy-morning.png
  • oma-2023-07-27.jpg
  • i-almost-died.png
  • chipping-from-twenty-meters.png
  • de-koepel.png
  • screenshot-www.udemy.com-2023.05.18-10_02_39.png
  • screenshot-www.golf.nl-2023.05.08-09_57_30.png
  • IMG-20230423-WA0000.jpg
  • me-and-my-radio-paradise-hat.png

Recent Comments

Golf Handicap

Information

This personal weblog was started way back on July 21, 2001 which means that it is 7-21-2001 old.

So far this blog contains no less than 2498 entries and as many as 1877 comments.

Important events

Graduated from Stanford 6-5-1979 ago.

Kiffin Rockwell was shot down and killed 9-23-1916 ago.

Believe it or not but I am 10-11-1957 young.

First met Thea in Balestrand, Norway 6-14-1980 ago.

Began well-balanced and healthy life style 1-8-2013 ago.

My father passed away 10-20-2000 ago.

My mother passed away 3-27-2018 ago.

Started Gishtech 04-25-2016 ago.