Image by Gilles San Martin via Flickr
This photo totally freaks me out!As a long time renter I’ve done the song and dance of vacating and cleaning one apartment and moving into another. You just never know how well the last person cleaned the space you’re moving into. Goodness knows I’ve skimped on the cleaning before. I’ve only recently starting really thinking about this and the Ick Factor is pretty high. But truthfully, by the time you’re done cleaning your place the last thing you want to do is go back and give your new place a thorough wipe down.
But really, you/I should.
It’s one thing to wallow in your own dead skin cells, hair fibers (from various parts of the body), dust mites, local pollen, your pet’s hair/fur fibers, dead skin cells, etc. But to move into someone else’s…
Ew.
Realistically, there is no way you could completely eliminate any trace of the previous occupant but the least one can do is get rid of the obvious stuff. Here’s what I’ve got in me this week and it ain’t much given the amount of unpacking and organizing still (ugh!) left to do. 10 minutes daily of wiping this new place of ours down. It’s a Craftsman build in 1920 which means lots of really nice trim around doors, windows, built-ins. You know, places where dust likes to lurk.
I’ve got my work cut out for me.
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Thank you for visiting my site and for the ‘like’. It looks like we both fight the same battles.
When I moved into my current place, a quadplex built in the early 1900′s, the trim and plate rails and pantry shelves hadn’t been touched by human hands for decades. Ewwww! I think there were new life forms starting to crawl out. At some point, the owner(?) had painted over the layers of dust in the upper shelves in the pantry. :/
Forever preserving the dust and gunk – nice.