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Show j , . -- - - - Overnight Guests can create quite a "Stir" a big deal of it." But anyway the towels that are so paper thin you can read a newspaper through them I hide in the bottom of the closet, and the "Ring around the toilet" gets a little extra attention. Outside the dog will have to watch his winter collection collec-tion of bones and old shoes go in the trash can, and who knows if the company's real special we may take down the Christmas lights. By Mary Gae Evans My husband says it's necessary for our survival that we have occasional "overnight" guests, because it forces me to really give the house a thorough cleaning. And it gets us out of the macoroni and han-burger han-burger rut for a few days. Pre-company days include some of the more neglected areas of my cleaning routine. I not only give the front of the bridge its usual hurried wipe, I climb up on a chair and dust the top. I take out the leftovers in the fridge that have turned green and cracked in the middle and discard the wilted brown lettuce leaves in the crisper. The stack of junk mail and bills on the kitchen table will have to go "If I have time to sort through it." And the kitchen counter will be exposed for a change if I can make myself throw away the six boses of ceral with just a little in the bottom no one will eart and the empty pickle bottles with no lids. The stack of newspapers dating back to the war ought to be hauled off or at least moved a little so the porch door will open all the way. The big balls of lint and the odd socks will need to be fished out or pushed back further under the beds, and I'll have to try to get the washing to come out even so that we can put on matching sheets and pillow cases instead of two striped and one flowered. I hope I can find two pillows that still have more feathers inside than out. The bathroom that's where we're really messy. The hair brushes, combs, half empty toothpaste with no cap, toothbrushes, three cans of deodorant, one full two empty. All kinds of face creams "all of them useless;" orange lipsticks. I have two hairdryers and one curling iron that takes up the whole counter in the bathroom all the time. It kind of scares the kids when they walk in an see it all cleaned off -- "I really don't think they need to make such |