Tuesday, 16 December 2008

  • Teh Ultimate Mutha of To-Do Lists

    Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ~ Rita Rudner

    If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ~ Laurence J. Peter (1919-1988)

    You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. ~ Cecil Baxter

    Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys. ~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka & Toshihiro Kawabata

    There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set. ~ Harriet Van Horne

    Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. ~ Laurence J. Peter (1919-1988)

    Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, "Where's my clean socks?" - no one answers. ~ Terry Pratchett

    When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. ~ William Blake (1757-1827)

    One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. ~ D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

    Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? ~ Katharine Whitehorn

    It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. ~ Mae West (1892-1980)

    Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents. ~ William Coronel

    If by the last quarter of the twentiesth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. ~ Tom Robbins (1936-)

    Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves-from "justifying" ourselves. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

    KITCHEN

    [] Dishes

    [] Sink scrubbed & rinsed out

    [] Countertops & all edges scrubbed and/or wiped down

    [] Appliances (stove, fridge, microwave & toaster) cleaned inside & out

    [] Old food tossed out of fridge

    [] Inventory groceries & etc

    [] Trash removed (can rinsed out w/ cleaner & hot water)

    [] Floor swept & mopped (scrubbed if needed)

    DINING ROOM

    [] Computer area dusted, wiped down, de-junked & organized

    [] All other surfaces straightened, dusted and/or windexed

    [] Floor vacuumed (under/behind tables as necessary)

    [] Trash removed

    LIVING ROOM

    [] Computer area dusted, wiped down, de-junked & organized

    [] TV & other surfaces dusted and/or windexed (including edges)

    [] Toys picked up & put away

    [] Entryway swept & mopped (scrubbed if needed)

    [] Trash removed

    [] Couch vacuumed out

    [] Floor vacuumed (behind/under couch as necessary)

    MAH ROOM

    [] Clothes folded & put away (closet dusted & straightened as needed)

    [] All surfaces dusted, wiped down and/or windexed

    [] Trash removed

    [] Entire room de-junked & organized

    [] Floor vacuumed (under/behind bed & dressers as needed)

    TEH KIDLETS' ROOM

    [] Toys picked up & put away

    [] All bedding laundered regularly

    [] Surfaces & edges dusted, wiped down and/or windexed

    [] Floor vacuumed (behind/under bed as needed)

    BATHROOM

    [] Tub scrubbed & rinsed out

    [] Sink scrubbed & rinsed out

    [] Mirror and all surfaces dusted, wiped and/or windexed

    [] Toilet scrubbed, rinsed out & wiped down

    [] White dresser de-junked, cleaned out & organized (as needed)

    [] Rug & towels laundered regularly

    [] Trash removed

    [] Floor swept & mopped (scrubbed as needed)

    MISCELLANEOUS

    [] Front porch swept (de-junked as needed)

    [] Trash removed from front & back yards

    [] Snow shoveled off path & steps (as needed)

    [] Trash can taken to curb Tuesday night & returned to garage Wednesday afternoon

    [] Laundry (every 2-3 days)

    [] Back steps swept down and/or out

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