Cleaning Lady Days

A year ago, when we were potentially moving and showing our house a lot to potential renters, Todd and I hired a cleaning lady (actually 2-3, depending on the day, they come together and blow through here fast). We chose to keep them on even after we decided not to move because it was so nice to have a reason to have the house picked up every 2 weeks, and it was also so nice when we were so busy with Ana and her post surgery care not to have to worry about whether the house was scrubbed.

The drawback though, is that we tend to "stash" rather than putting things away properly, because we fear we don't have the time to put it away the right way, and still have everything picked up so the "ladies" can clean.

My goal now is to not have to do anything the night/morning before the "ladies" come. I so desire things in this house to be put away all the time, enough that we don't have a mad dash of stashing things every other "night before" in order to be ready for them to come scrub. I remember the saying "Everything has a place, and is in its place," but right now 1) everything doesn't have a place, 2) everything that does have a place is not in its place, and 3) If everything were in its place there wouldn't be enough place for the things.

Time to press on, and get rid of more...

Laura