10 things I have learnt while moving back in to our house....
10. Nothing you order and want in a hurry will come in within the promised week.
9. There will always be somewhere you forget to clean.
8. It is best not to touch things that aren't broken (like the pressure valve on the boiler) in case they suddenly break. (ahem)
7. Cutlery multiplies the same way socks disappear.
6. Baking soda cleans just about everything.
5. Even when you have spent what seems like years scrubbing your walls and have taken a layer of paint off you will still find dirty fingerprints. Usually the minute you show someone what a good job you've done.
4. Nothing but nothing removes icky smells from the grout in the bathroom andno matter how many times you scrub the tiles in the end you will rip them up anyway.
3. Allow for the fact that some things will make it through 6 years of storage, being unpacked and washed only to break for no apparent reason when you dry them.
2. Despite the large grossness factor you will regret not taking a before photo of the toilet once you have it shiny and white again, if only to scare people with.
1. If you are looking for something it will be in the first box you look in....but you won't find it till you've looked in all the others.
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Just thought I’d pop over and say ‘hi’.
Nr 9 reminds me of a house we once sold. The new owners wanted me to pay a cleaning bill because they’d found some crumbs left in one kitchen drawer and a child’s toy under the bath. As you say, there’s always somewhere you forget. Needless to say, I didn’t pay. It wasn’t as if I’d left the house filthy.
I disagree with nr 7. Cutlery appears to have legs in this house as there’s always far less of it than I imagine there should be. Forks especially. Maybe the prongs help them run faster ;-)
Nr is definitely sod’s law.
Oops... that last bit should have read Nr 1.
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