Cleaning Tips: If the Health Department Isn’t Coming, It’s Clean Enough

Excerpt from Chapter 12:

If the Health Department Isn’t Coming, It’s Clean Enough

If you live in a doublewide, a McMansion, a classic colonial, in the city or country, your home is your White Trash Palace, so treat it accordingly.

White Trash Mom ‘s Cleaning Tips

I’m sure it will come as no surprise that I don’t enjoy housework. So, I’m not really the best resource for information on how to keep your own little doublewide trailer clean. But, I do know a thing or two about making it look clean or making it look like clean is one of your priorities. Consider these tips and shortcuts just another way of attacking the perfection expectation. I’d rather fight the war on perfection than battle dust bunnies any day of the week. White Trash Mom cleaning and housekeeping tips are not for everyday. WTM tips are what you can use when you experience the following:

“Uh Oh” Moments

For most people but especially “ADD” people like me, having an “Uh Oh” moment is a fairly routine occurrence. For those of you not familiar with this syndrome, an “Uh Oh” moment is when you remember that it’s your turn for book club and 25 people are coming over in 4 hours. Or when you remember you offered to have the entire family to your house for a dinner and you live in complete squalor. White Trash Mom tips are good for those moments when you have to do six-month’s worth of cleaning in a few hours.

You need extra help.

“I’m On My Last Nerve and I’m at the Maximum Dosage” Moments

There are times when life gets too busy or too crazy. When super replaces normal chaos sized chaos that makes it hard to keep your sense of humor and your perspective.

It may be a week, a month or longer but there are times when life goes too fast and you need to cut something out. Skimp on the chores and not on your favorite reality TV show.

Cutting Corners can Increase Sanity

But WTM knows there are ways to cut corners during maximum insanity times in your life and I think sanity over eco-perfect is a good thing if you are raising children.

At least it’s good to have some sanity—-no mom is completely sane because children suck some of the logic/reason cells out of your brain just before birth. It’s true. My neighbor Jan told me so. And she has 7 kids so I don’t argue with her.

Quick Cleaning Tips When You Need a Little Sanity

Products to Keep Handy for those “Uh Oh” moments

* Clorox Wipes
* Swiffer Wipes
* Febreeze

Please don’t get on me about the environment. I am not suggesting you do this every day. I’m saying these are great in a pinch. You can get a bathroom clean in 10 seconds with two Clorox wipes.

A “Swiffer” mop is easy for a smaller child to wipe a floor down with in a hurry.

Febreeze helps quickly take that “Muddy Dog Paw” smell out of your carpet or upholstery without having your house smell like a hospital.

This Three Day Weekend submissions comes to us courtesy of Michelle Lamar, author of The White Trash Mom Handbook, and who can be found at her blog, White Trash Mom.