The conundrum of spring cleaning is that it occurs during mud season. Mud tracks. And when it dries it travels in the stealthy form of dirt. Once the monumental task of scrubbing each and every board on every single floor is done, you don’t want anyone to walk on them. At least for a week, if not forever. It’s not polite to glare at someone’s shoes when they come in to say hello, but in shameful honesty, experience has shown this simple situation can wake the dormant beast even in the best of hosts.
Especially if the oh-so-slim slot available for cleaning in your weekly time-budget has been taken up by those oh-so-inevitable incidentals that pop up out of nowhere—at the precise moment you were reaching for the mop.
