A little late to the game

I have been reading and taking it all in but not sharing, so watch out, here it comes!

If you know my husband at all (which, side note, I have been amused to notice lately that the only guys at church he knows are 60+ because he is in High Priest Group, poor guy, so you probably don't know my husband!) you would know that he never argues so try as I might to pick a fight he won't fight back. The only thing that has almost brought us to "blows" is cleaning. My husband HATES to clean. I mean all of it. He never even touched our first vacuum. Doesn't know where to find the toilet cleaner. Has never mopped the floors...

This came to a head a few years ago when we had more money than time (would that I could have that again...) and when I tried to divide up the cleaning responsibilities he told me that he would just hire out his half.   Except he wasn't joking. So when I was pregnant and working crazy hours and needing desperately to have the house clean, we hired a housekeeper. Between her and the nanny who ironed my sheets!! (which seemed crazy to me but she loved it and it looked awesome), we returned to marital bliss.

Fast forward to our move to Seattle and no housekeeper (or ironing nanny for that matter) I was a little concerned to take up the cleaning battle again but funny enough we have found common ground. Jamie makes the money and I clean the house. Yes, I know it sounds a little 1950's to some, but actually it works. Believe me, I am the most surprised of all.

Okay, so you endured with me through all of that and still I haven't given you my cleaning philosophy, I know, I know, paragraph five, sorry! So my cleaning philosophy is to go crazy every couple of weeks and just clean from top to bottom. I love the daily/weekly lists but someone mentioned needing to have everything clean at once and I am the same way. Never mind that it lasts 10 minutes (I usually clean at night so at least it will be clean for 8 whole hours!), when it is all clean at the same time, aahhh, bliss.

PS So my nanny was actually onto something. Although I have no plans to iron my sheets, EVER, the way she did it was to just plug the iron into an extension cord next to the bed and iron the sheets while they were on the bed. I realized that this would be a great way to do tablecloths so you don't get those annoying creases when the ironed part hits the ground, it works great!

PPS The only thing I ever iron is tablecloths. Don't know how you do it Z.