The Cleaning Encyclopedia by Don Aslett

Author:Don Aslett [Aslett, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-41906-4
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1953-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Jugs, Picnic. See “Coolers and Jugs, Picnic.”

Junk and Clutter

The single biggest multiplier of cleaning is the amount of clutter in, around, and underfoot in a dwelling place.

Our rooms, closets, drawers, and cupboards are full of it, and our cars don’t even know they belong in the garage. (You couldn’t even fit a bike in there.) And clothes—there are plenty of sixty-year-old women out there who still have their maternity clothes and seventy-year-old men who still have their starting jersey lined up in the closet. (You never know!) Dejunking eliminates cleaning—at least 40 percent of cleaning is just coping with junk, litter and clutter. Get rid of it, and almost half your housework will disappear. Too much of your cleaning otherwise is just wading through, working around, and repositioning junk and clutter, not actual cleaning. Get rid of it! What are you waiting for? It will never get easier. Start today! It doesn’t cost a dime!

Here’s a short course to get you started: Get up early in the morning, the earlier the better; you’re cold-hearted and objective then. (And there are fewer people around to interfere with the process or restash the junk.) Wear clothes with no pockets or you will toss two and save one. Play some rousing dejunking music such as Sousa marches or “I got along without you before I got you, I’m gonna get along without you now.” Get five big cardboard boxes and label them: JUNK, SORT, CHARITY, EMOTIONAL WITHDRAWAL, and PROBATION. Now you’re ready to go; put your boxes down somewhere and start sorting. I promise you that great surges of victory and self-esteem will come over you with each piece of worthless junk you cast away. When you reach the point of exhaustion, relax for a while and read a few pages of Clutter’s Last Stand or Not for Packrats Only, then get back on the job. And from now on when you see a garage sale, take a cold shower immediately!

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