At first, I thought that I should take it as a sign. If I read it in a magazine, it must be true. I should stop cleaning immediately and let life continue on. Then, I noticed the date on the article, April 2004. Well, I guess the sign that I am getting is that I have to dejunk even more than I thought. It is a fun article and I will share some of my favorite reasons that they had to Stop Cleaning!1. Did you ever try to have a conversation with someone who loves cleaning her house?2. Follow Roseann’s advice: “I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on.”3. You have a choice: Clean out your closets or meet a friend for lunch. Its a no-brainer.4. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” refers to your personal hygiene, not your house.5. Your house doesn’t pass the white glove test? Luckily no one wears white gloves anymore.6. Nowhere in the marriage ceremony does it say, “I promise to clean the house every day.”7. If you can’t stand the sight of a speck of dust in your house, leave the house and go to a see a movie.8. When you are 90, do you want to look back on clean bathrooms as your major accomplishment?9. If you just have to clean, make a strawberry shortcake with lots of whipped cream and clean up after that.10. Put 40 watt lightbulbs in all your lamps and no one will see the dust.11. Lots of cleaning leads to red, rough hands.12. A cluttered desk makes you look busy and important.13. Water rings on the coffee table just show off how many great parties you’ve had.14 Waxed floors are dangerous. Someone might slip, get hurt and sue you.15. Progress: Grandma used a washboard. Mother used a washing machine. You send it out.16. A cluttered attic shows you have a colorful past.17. Instead of cleaning your house, you could be learnign to Salsa!18. If God meant for us to clean, we would have mops instead of feet.19 Dust is unsanitary, stay away from it.20. Real friends don’t see the mess in your house because thier house is the same.
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