swiffer while you work...

since there were people working on our house for the past week or so, the housework went by the wayside. there was no purpose in cleaning knowing it was just going to get dirty again the next day. so today billy and i tag teamed the house. i, dusting and swiffering, and he cleaning the bathrooms. which, for some reason i think he takes pleasure in cleaning the bathrooms. why? not sure, but i just let him get right to it and have his glory. i swiffered the downstairs first, went upstairs and finished with the actual stairs themselves. whenever i swiffer the stairs it always takes me back to the days of 317 webb street. those lovely days of getting ready for some big family affair. yes, the lovely days when i had to sweep and mop the stairs. it was always pleasurable to sweep with the broom, sweeping up with the dustpan every so often. and then mopping, oh the mopping. filling the mop bucket all the way in the kitchen and then lugging it up the stairs and the down the stairs, rinsing the mop over and over. and all the while i would think about how much this sucked. and how much i wish christmas was at aunt jill's or aunt sandy's this year so i didn't have to mop the stairs. when all the while i should have been inventing swiffers!! duh emily. think productively!! think of the money i could have right now!! swiffers! no mop buckets, no rinsing, no dust pans. just sweep and throw away. it takes me literally 5 minutes to clean these stairs with a swiffer. so to all of you teenagers out there who are stuck swiffering their stairs for some family affair and are hating it, take that angst and put it in a better place. think of inventing something better!!