Cleaning Up

One of the best decisions I made when I moved to New Place (almost a year ago already!) was to take on a regular cleaning service for the house.

I’m not a horrible house-keeper in general – despite what a couple of now-exes said – but I also make no claims about being perfect. There are things I won’t notice or worry about until they get (by my standards) bad, but then I’d always handle them.  But when I moved out of Tiny House, the moving of furniture etc. made me realise that there were things I hadn’t done at all (like moving the bed to get under it for cleaning purposes)

So with this one, I have a service that comes in once a month and does a general cleanup.  It only needs an hour a month (and they keep on being surprised by this, that a man living on his own isn’t some kind of absolute sty-dweller) but it means everything’s being kept up to date.  To me, that’s absolutely worth what I’m paying.

The only thing that annoys me though, is that, despite each person saying “Oh, I’m so OCD about cleaning” and so on, not one of them has been able to clean stuff and then put it back where it was.  I suspect it’s a thing that’s meant to say “Yes, we’ve cleaned round this”, and that’s fine – I’m sure they have customers who need to see that sort of thing, otherwise they’ll feel the work hasn’t been done.  Thankfully, I’m not that sort of customer.

So anyway, I understand the motivations, but it still grates a little.  But still, having the service is worth those minor irritations.