I’m behind on my (lame) excuse posts.
Sorry.
I missed Thursday because I was out most of the day, and couldn’t find a moment to write. I missed Friday because I was putting up a post about my new appliances from Maytag. And I really couldn’t come up with a way to make that an excuse!
Give me time . . . I’m sure I’ll come up with something.
So, on this Saturday morning, I thought I’d share two lame excuses to get me caught up.
1. My sink really needs a good scrubbing, but I don’t love the grainy feel of the sink cleaner I have.
I don’t hate it. I just don’t love it.
So I don’t do it.
I’m sure there are twenty other reasons I could come up with for why I don’t scrub the sink more often, but that’s one.
2. No one can tell the ceiling fans need to be dusted when they’re running.
So as long as it’s hot, why bother?
Except that it’s not really hot anymore.
And I can’t know for sure that it won’t be cold tomorrow night when we have our church home group here.
So I guess I’d better come up with a reason why I need to keep the fan going in case someone asks me to turn it off.
Or . . . I guess I could clean it.
Better start thinking.
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OK. It’s just a few more days until the voting ends for top home management blogs over at Circle of Moms. I’m in third place.
I’d love it if you would be so kind as to go vote for me. You can vote once each day, and it just takes one quick click to vote.
I just found your blog this week. No clue how, but so glad I did! JUST this morning I thought that EXACT same thing about the ceiling fans -We are having an extra warm day and I was excited to turn the fans on because I haven’t cleaned them yet :O)
There’s got to be a good excuse for the mess that came out of the back of the fridge.
Here are a few I would have used “I was too excited about the new fridge to clean the old one” “If it’s at the back of the fridge and I can’t see it doesn’t count” “I’d have found it once it started to smell.””
Seriously, glad to have you back on excuse patrol. I should sign off and go get my house back to the shape it was in when I wrote “It’s all Nony’s Fault.
(Anybody else suffer from post-heroic cleaning let down?)
Current excuse: “I was at my daughter’s school all week volunteering.
Off to beat back the chaos.
PS Also waiting with baited breath for the next installment in the master bedroom saga.
Or you could just reverse the direction of the fan to bring the warm air down. Not that I’ve done that or anything. 🙂
Can someone please explain how a moving fan gathers dust? After all, if a rolling stone gathers no moss, surely a moving fan could gather no dust. Alas, it gathers dust but as you said as long as it is moving most people don’t notice the dust. Keep ’em moving!
I got a $2 microfiber duster from IKEA that is moldable. I can fold it at just the right point that I can run it over the blades of the fan and get the edges, all in one swipe. And I’m short! Although it is easier if I have my partner do it as he’s taller. Still, in a pinch, it’s possible for me to do it, and it has a handle that screws off so I could insert any average screw-on broom handle. Fabulous!
Anyway I haven’t seen them since I bought them there, but I saw one at Bed Bath and Beyond and had to call my mother about it. And that was only a few weeks ago. So it’s totally worth checking out if you want one! It makes cleaning the fan so easy peasy, getting those tall dusty cobwebs too. Though you could also just throw some extra fake cobwebs up there now and call it all decoration 😉
I found myself thinking perhaps I should look for one of those . . . but then loved your last suggestion so much I decided to go with that!
Haha well it will get you through church group tomorrow night and until you’ve gotten one and then stalled until November 1st 😉
Stopping in for my morning vote. Gee, I came up with so many lame excuses yesterday, I think I will clean a fan today in hopes of motivating me in the right direction. We have lots of dust here in the mountains. MY BEST FAN CLEANING TIP- don’t use any kind of polish or cleaner that leaves a residue on the blades. Although they may look nice and have a clean shine to them that is what causes dust to build up.(whirling dust magnets). You won’t have to clean them near as often, or it will be much longer before you have to pick the dust bunnies out of your guests hair between cleanings. However you want to look at it. Hope everyone has a great Sunday!