cleaning

Thank Goodness for work. I didn't have to be home to help clean. We were all exhausted by the last day of the sale at work, though, anyway. I had a customer come in at 5:30 pm. She ended up with socks, but with a lot of food for thought. She had bad knees and wanted shoes that would be good for her. What she liked was the cute comfortable shoes with no support. I was honest and said she needed the supportive shoes, not the cute shoes. She said she would be back. She will. I was exhausted and ready to go home myself.

While I was at work, Tom had a cleaning crew come do the house. Like me he was surprised at how long it takes to do a deep clean on our house. The cleaning service cost $300 and worked from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm. That is probably why our house doesn't get a deep clean unless we are moving out. They didn't even steam the carpets. Tom got the down stairs carpet steamed, but we still have the upstairs. I am just grateful I have ripped out so much carpet in our years living here that there wasn't nearly as much to do as there was when we moved in.

They did get baseboards and windows, vacuuming up the bugs between the glass. The bathrooms look great with everything hidden away and staged.

The front room and front hall are now not carpet. Upstairs, the hall, Riley's room and the big bonus room are no longer carpet. The rooms without carpet sparkle with clean floors that were easy and quick to do. I passionately hate carpet.

I saw a house in Longview that had just had all its carpets replaced to sell the place. I walked away. I wish people would consider that there are others who will not live with carpet. I would rather buy a house and replace the floors myself than live with carpet. It is a hidy hole for mold and dirt no matter how well you keep it clean. The crevices of stairs with carpet drive me crazy. I will crawl up the stairs with a tooth brush to get the build up in the seams. What a pain. It is much easier just to rip the carpet out and sweep and mop.

Now you may be laughing because I don't do cleaning very often, but that is because carpet is so discouraging. The spots are still in our living room even after Tom steamed the carpets. I know the pad is gross under the carpet. I loved our hard wood floors in our old house. A quick once over with the broom or the vacuum and the house sparkled and you knew it was truly clean of dirt. Not hidden below the surface. Spilled stains were a paper towel wipe away. And they didn't reappear magically later.


The real estate agents do their walk through Tuesday. We still have a lot to hide away in the garage. The office with all its computers and papers still needs to be tackled. It is a huge sale point. The house has a nice layout. Everyone even says our price is good. Patience, the buyer will eventually come. We don't have another house to go to anyway, yet.