Posts Tagged ‘cleanup’
Holiday Cleanup
How do you clean up after the holidays? For us, it is a tad more interesting. Madison’s birthday was yesterday (she turned 5!), so we always have the quick cleanup that needs to be done from the time we get back from visiting Wisconsin and her birthday party. I usually get about a week if we are lucky. Since we have the basement now, Bill let me keep up the Christmasy decorations, but we did pull down the Christmas tree. I need as much room as we can get, and this is pretty much the only way I was going to get it. I figure everybody will hang out downstairs for her party just like they did for Christmas Eve. The sad thing is that we are the only one on the block who still has their outdoor lights up. Now, we don’t leave them up till June or anything, but it seems that it is kinda odd that on 8th of January that everyone has packed up everything already. Now, I’ve slacked this week, and I have to get all my cleaning done tomorrow with the kids underfoot. This should be interesting. My sister is arriving tomorrow, so its not quite the end of the world if she’s the only one who sees my non-clean house.
How do you clean up? Do you have a set plan? Do you just do a little bit each day?
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Catching Up
I have been slowly but surely catching up this week. I am finally able to read in my paper about the flooding that occurred while I was gone to Izeafest. It is pretty scary. My own backyard had water deep enough that it went to almost my knees. All I can say is that I am so glad we paid a waterproofing company to come in and fix my basement. I know our old sump pump never would have been able to keep up either. For three days straight, we listened to it go off every 30 seconds. However, a lot of people were not as lucky as us. I know in Chicago, Evergreen Park, and several other suburbs they have had to look into a water restoration company. These companies come in help you with the water cleanup and mold removal. I know too well how stressful it can be when you watching your basement fill with water (two years ago we had it happen here). I know we were watching here this last weekend. We would have lost a lot if my basement leaked and that what companies like that are here for.
