After my "work wheel" post last month, a couple of readers have expressed their surprise at the frequency with which I clean the floors. Actually, it is pretty surprising. Every week the floors get vacuumed and swiffered and every other week they get washed for real, with a bucket and a cleaning product that's similar to Fabuloso or Spic n Span. What's really amazing is that despite being a basically shoeless household, and despite not allowing our kid to eat anywhere but the table, the floors are actually dirty when it comes time to clean them every few days.
Really, when I swiffered on Friday, only 3 days after I had vacuumed all the floors, the swiffer cloth was so filthy I thought about changing it midway through (I didn't). I don't know why this is, but I suspect it has to do with living in an old building (don't they just spontaneously release dust?), our lifestyle (M and I are home much more often than we were in New York and therefore we are making dust at home as opposed to work or school) and our windows (don't close properly to the point of an inside door blowing closed one particularly windy night).
So, despite needing some slight tweaking to address tasks that aren't regularly completed, sadly, cleaning the floor isn't really something I can cut back on.
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