Property News · January 16, 2017

Why do our homes suddenly turn into hovels? It puts us to shame | Michele Hanson


When housework falls by the wayside, things can get out of control. God forbid someone comes round unexpectedly and sees how you really liveSome homes are charmingly eccentric; others seem more like dumps – and the change from one to the other can be sudden, as with my own. Often, the arrival of visitors can trigger this change. In they come, and then somehow I can see clearly that my home is a pigsty. Look at the globs of dirt clogging up the bottom of the radiators. The drips and blobs on the paintwork, the little blankets of dust along the top of the skirting boards, the trails of dog prints. Shame. I bet the visitors have all seen it and pretended not to notice.As well as the public shame when this dirt shows up, there’s the private inner turmoil when it peaks – a feeling of self-loathing and complete loss of control, an end of desire to do anything at all because the clean-up job seems insurmountable. How has it got to this? What is wrong with me? Why do I not wipe, sweep and scrub surfaces regularly, like normal people? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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