My home, while not white glove clean, is in fairly good shape. Even so it still takes much longer for me to do each of the listed chores than they gave us in their article! For instance, wiping down the counters and stove top after dinner. 3 minutes?? Did they eat out that night?? It took me 10 minutes just for the stove top and that wasn't counting under the burners! Things splatter and boil over... I've never been a "neat cook" but even if I never used the stove it would still take more than 3 minutes just to knock the dust off of it!
Regardless of who's name is on the article, I've decided that it must've been written by a man who's wife does the housework. I can just see it now..... Tired of hearing her complain about how long it takes her to clean, he sets a stopwatch and times how long it takes him to clean surfaces she's already done. That's the only way those numbers could possibly gel with reality as far as I'm concerned.
Also, it's a given that these people don't have pets or kids.
Let's face reality here... If you leave a dustcloth hidden in the living room when you have pets or kids around you're going to come back and either find it shredded to bits or wrapped around an action figure as a cape! Leaving a spray can of Pledge hidden with the cloth means your plants will shine like a mirror while they're dying... And it takes longer than the 5 minutes allotted to the carpets just to pick up the toys scattered across the floor!
Maybe I'm missing something and those tips they write about will actually work somewhere other than in an already spotless home but so far I'm not convinced.
Maybe I should have my husband check it out this weekend and let me know? ;)
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posted by PJ4810
Thankfully it might work here as long as I tell him it's an experiment and not "helping with the housework". The man is a sucker for statistics. ;)
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Linda D. in Seattle
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