Clean Your Own Damn House!
I sure don’t want to! Problem is – I guess I’m going to. Actually, I already have. (Well, not your house!) But, that’s right, folks – I’ve embarked on a Hippie Spelunker House Cleaning Endeavor. It’s not like I chose to do so. Oh no. Don’t be silly. Garsh! Two members of my humongous pack of in-laws out here clean houses and one of them had to have surgery, so I get to fill in for her. Yippee.
(We’ll call them In-Law “J” and In-Law “L” – with In-Law “L” having surgery and therefore, my working with In-Law “J”.) (Ah crap! Forget that, too much work – they are now J and L. Period.)
Luckily, J only needs help with the houses that they clean on Thursday and Friday. And I’m earning a little money. But… Well, lemme put it to ya this way…on the first day, last Thursday, after we were finished, we got back in the truck to leave and J says, “See now? That wasn’t too bad, was it?”
I didn’t even have the heart to be dishonest. I replied, “Actually, I much rather enjoy getting paid to write.” I just didn’t have it in me. 
I figure, though, if I can’t write on Thursdays and Fridays…at least I can write about what I do on Thursdays and Fridays. A small appeasement, to be sure, but, perhaps it will hold me over.
The Crazy Big Friday House
And check this out – the house we went to on Friday was actually four stories tall! It was a two story house with a basement and a (seriously, hardcore cool!) room built into the attic. And they had two garages and not just any two garages. No. There was a garage on the first floor and another garage on the basement level. Very freaky.
The first floor garage was on the side of the house and the basement garage was at the back. So you have a driveway that goes to the side of the house and you can turn left into a driveway that leads to the garage. Or you can keep winding around to the back of the house to turn into the driveway that leads to the ‘lower’ garage that faces the back yard.
And dudes. Seriously. That attic room? Totally KILLER! And you wouldn’t guess who gets to live in it! A ninth grade kid! I’m talking that room had two or three recliners, a big screen TV decked out with video games, a ping pong table (yeah! no kidding!) and a twin bed for the kid to sleep in when he gets done leading his wild party life! Can you believe that?
If I ever let my boys (8th & 9th grades) see that room – they would. never. let. up. And I do mean never. For real – in my death bed at 99 years old, they’d sit around the bed, saying their goodbyes, and throw in a dig or two about that ‘kid who had the kick a$$ attic room they never got’!
You know they would! Damn kids! 
It’s Just Too Big, Though!
This house is so big that it’s almost like a hotel. And I think that’s more about their things than the actual house, really. When we first walked in, there was a storage closet off the kitchen full of kitchen appliances, cleaning supplies, etc. And they had between three and five coffee makers! And in that room they also had TWO extra refrigerators! Now, I admit, when my mom and dad had an extra fridge in the garage, it did come in mighty handy! But – THREE refrigerators? Yikes!
The other thing that stood out to me as ‘hotel-ish’ was the chairs and lounges around the pool. There were just so many. And I will be the first to tell you I want a house (and its accompanying furniture) to be accommodating to my extended family. Mark and I both love to have our families and friends over. There was just something about all those chairs that made the home seem less ‘home-ish’.
Well, that’s all the spouting off I’ll do on the topic for today – believe me, there’s plenty more brewing – and I’ve only cleaned houses with J twice so far! Haha! And besides that, my stupid stomach is killing me – I want to go lie down and watch a movie. I just got new movies from the UPS man and those nice PR people. You are gonna freak when you hear about the one I’m watching tonight!
My lips are sealed tonight, though! 
You’ll just have to keep checking in! Ha!
That sounds awesome! Attic rooms are the coolest. My cousin had an attic room and I always loved it, even with the funky slanted ceiling. I used to clean houses and hotel rooms… it really makes you not want to clean when you get home. Not that I wanted to before that … or now for that matter LMAO I pay someone to come clean every two weeks because I seriously suck at cleaning.
Dude! Seriously – that is the VERY FIRST thing I am going to outsource the INSTANT….NO! The MILLISECOND I become able!! Hahahaha!!
I need to ask…when one drove into the basement garage, were you underneath the first garage, like you were in a parking structure? Or was the basement garage under a different part of the house? For example, if the house was sort of a split level. Some people have it where you walk in the front door on the first floor but the back of the house, you go out a slider in the lower level.
If it was parking structure style, I would think that would be freaky.
Been there ~ done that… but at least you know it is temporary!
Your very brave, cleaning other peoples houses, i have enough of a job just cleaning my own!!!. My kids would be exactly the same 2 mom can we have a bigger room???” x 100 daily
Wow, reading about all the stuff they have like 5 coffee makers and 3 refrigerators, lemme guess… are they big set of people living there?
They must have loads of cash and just don’t know what to do with it. Should have donated to some needy people or sponsor a poor child or something, rather than buying 5 coffee makers or pampering a 9 year old who would turn out to be like lindsey lohan or Paris hilton. gEesh. Oh well,it’s their money they can do what ever they want with it.
it’s a cool place for hide and seek.
i’m trying to convince my hubby to let me hire someone to come in once every two weeks or so and do the things i *really* don’t want to do. hehe. that attic room sounds awesome. my parents always told me they were going to convert their attic room into a bedroom for me, but that never happened.
I would actually love to have a job like that. For one, I don’t mind cleaning all that much, because I love the feeling of accomplishment when it’s completed. For two, I would LOVE nosing around other people’s stuff. HA!
I cleaned vacation homes in Charleston one summer. It wasn’t that much fun, but the money was good. Hope you don’t have to do it too long.
Our garage is under our house like that. It is sorta built into a hill. That means our car is parked under our bed. LOL
I absolutely hate cleaning. We’re moving next weekend, and I’m having to clean out so much junk.
My mom has been cleaning houses for a living for almost 30 years now and has this one house that she’s been cleaning for almost 20 years. That house is friggin HUGE too with a finished basement, but no attic. I always used to live this house when she first started cleaning it, and when all three of the kids were still at home mom would have to clean almost every square inch of the house. But now all three kids are grown and out of their own. It used to take mom almost 8 hours to clean it, now it takes less than 5. But I never understood how a person couldn’t sweep their own floors or clean out their own damn toilets…LMAO!
Some people actually enjoy housecleaning. My MIL is one of those people. I hate it and once upon a time we had a lady do it for us. Then I got laid off.
I had to help with housecleaning for a friend once and I will probably never do it again, not only is my friend very picky about cleaning, but I walked in on something that I did not want to in one home and decided that housecleaning was not for me.