Friends are Visiting, Time to Clean

Today will be a whirlwind of cleaning activity because we have friends coming to visit and stay overnight. This means we will be cleaning the house top to bottom and pretending it always looks this nice. That’s what you do right? lol

I’ve noticed that when we have visiting or a little gathering at the house, if new people are coming over, it sends my husband into a cleaning frenzy that involves steam mopping the floor. This is the only time I see him do that, so if I can just arrange to have regular visitors, I could have very clean floors as a result.

The worst part of visitors is moving all the junk we keep stored in the guest room. It has to go somewhere! Maybe we could revamp spaces with expert help in the future, but right now it all gets moved to my costume room and office. I have to organize it all like a game of Tetris and leave myself a little path to make my way through the room.

Occasionally it does turn into a full-blown house cleaning and organizing affair. The last step of course is hauling all the junk off to Goodwill or leaving some larger items out by the curb for what’s covered in junk removal, or for neighbors to grab before it’s hauled away.

You can find some good treasures that way! We still have a nice wooden dresser we found on the curb. We took it home and refinished it and stained it a lovely blue color. We also added new silver drawer pulls.

So I’m off to go clean now! Hope you all have a great weekend.