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Living with someone

I am actually not much of a cleaner and perfectionist when it comes to maintenance of a home. Wow, that is such an understatement. Hahahaha.

I have lived with someone who is worse than me. I am bad. But he's worse. Everything can be a mess except for his CD collection. Touch his CDs and you die.

As I have learned over the years of living with other people, there is nothing worse than being a laidback person living with a perfectionist who expects you to keep up to his level of perfectionism and expecting not to lift a single finger. Nothing worse than that. It is mental torture every single day.

For me, I clear things up only on a couple of conditions and when those conditions are met, I will do them diligently, I won't stop until I think it's perfect.

1. Someone's going to fall sick
Obviously, if there are rats in the home, something's gotta be done.

2. It stinks.
It runs in the family. Me, my sister, my brother, my mom....we are all considered trained aromatherapists. Our sense of smell is strong. And we love to over-fumigate our territory with smell and senses that we like. This can be hard to endure. LOL. So, if you want me to clean something, a surefire way would be to make it stink. I will clean it to kingdom come.

3. I. AM. PAID.
No money no talk. Simple.

XDXD
Marsha
p.s. I know tomorrow is Monday, sleep well and keep on fighting!

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