Tuesday, January 18, 2011

How Cleaning Works College Style

So I now that I am back at school I had to clean the apartment so certain people don't get pissy with me. I realized that there is a very strict order to cleaning. I believe nothing is ever truly clean, it just migrates around in certain groupings with other objects.

I start near the front door and move back deeper into the apartment all the way to my room, which is opposite of the door across the apartment.

Starting in the Kitchen, Everything is clean just need to put all the pots and pans and stuff of that nature in their respective homes. Easy. Since I don't have a dishwasher everything is done by hand, therefore everything sits out until it is washed, then resumes sitting around until it is dry and someone (me) puts it all away. Instant counter space. Wipe down counter and Kitchen is clean.


Moving to the kitchen table the problem begins. With everything from Mail from months ago to present day, Coasters, A bamboo plant, Homework, Bike Lock, Bills, Xbox controllers, and anything else that gets left there it seems hard to clean. Like most people I am going for speed so I can move on to doing something fun. Move all the bills and mail into to neat piles and throw all the other stuff onto the couch in a pile. Couch is only a few feet away but counts as the next room since it is on the carpet and the table is on the tile.

Move to living room. Note the pile has moved from the table to the couch. Things are now all over the couch and surrounding area. Remotes, backpacks, pillows, chargers for phones and laptops, game cases, plates and drink glass, soda cans empty and full. various boxes with instructions for bike locks, RC helicopter, Football and Kick stand are all object now in pile on couch. Grab the obvious and put them away, Xbox controllers and game cases. Move rest of personal crap to room. Move kitchen items into sink.



Everything in room is messy, pathways literally determine how I get to stuff I need. Everything in pile from couch is moved to already huge pile on desk. I put away shoes (just line them up). Next is clear flat spaces, Take everything put in on bed. New Pile. Keeping track we now have two piles in bedroom, one on desk one on bed. All paperwork is moved to desk, into pile. Other objects that are used daily are also moved to desk or put back were they were in a somewhat neater fashion. Pile on desk is now huge.



Forget the bathroom. The sink area is just sorted roommates stuff on one side mine on the other. Just make it look kinda neat and walk away.



Now There is neat pile in my room and one in the Kitchen with all the dirty sh*t I found around the apartment. The Pile progressed from kitchen table, to couch, to desk in my room. Once we have achieved this point in the cleaning we are done. Huge pile of shit in room therefore apartment is clean.

Daytime: Move shit to bed.
Nighttime: Move shit to desk.

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