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My top tip for cleaning houses ready for the return of their rightful owners after an eight week holiday:
1. Gather all mess together.
2. Put mess in spare room.
3. Close door.
4. (Optional) Press 'Detonate'.
Quick! Easy! Effective!
Contra-advice: Never put anything on your bed that you're not willing to sleep on top of.
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Excellent advice! Although, I'm not sure if the owners would like to come home to a room full of mess after their break. However, by the time they find it, you'll be long gone and it won't be your problem any more.
That's why there's a step 4.
Never put anything on your bed that you're not willing to sleep on top of.
Or anyone.
I find that if you don't put things on the bed, but on the bedroom floor, you'll be alright.
As long as you leave a path between bed and door…
that presupposes that there's any room *left* on the floor. 😉
A-ha!
You just need to be good at stacking stuff. Besides, if you stack it high enough you don't have to worry about pulling your curtains closed.
Still, I'll admit I slept with a couple of books on my bed for a few nights – I forgot they were there, and as my bed is so big and comfortable…
…spent three hours looking for them before giving it up as a bad job, threw myself on the bed and landed on them.
Who needs a filiing system?
This would expain the need to have 40 needles pushed into your back. Extra Extra kinks cause by lumpy bed!
In 1986, I wrote a different but apropos set of words to Jackson Brown's “Fountain of Sorrow”. See …
this GooJa link to “Mountain of Laundry”.
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