I received a mailer from a cleaning company the other day with the slogan, Life’s Too Short to Clean Your Own Home\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00a0 It sort of spoke to me.\u00c2\u00a0 At my age, a cancer and heart attack survivor, the brevity of life is a real attention getter.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t feel a great need to extend my life by foregoing housecleaning.\u00c2\u00a0 I rather enjoy it sometimes, sweeping up dog fur and so forth, but with this heart healthy high fiber diet I’m on, sometimes I feel like I could use someone to wipe my bum for me, but I suppose we all end up there if we stick around long enough, and there’s no sense rushing things.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, life’s too short.<\/p>\n
But I did get to wondering if the women cleaning my home would suffer twice the life shortening effects of housecleaning by cleaning their own homes and mine too.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I could refinish the basement, put a little apartment down there, so they’d only be cleaning one home.\u00c2\u00a0 This being a southern city, there’s already a toilet down there for the help.\u00c2\u00a0 Sort of like Downton Abbey<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 It could be a real opportunity for someone.\u00c2\u00a0 I could post flyers on the trees as I hike through some of the more obscure reaches of the James\u00e2\u20ac\u201dLife’s Too Short to Be Homeless.\u00c2\u00a0 Catchy, don’t you think?\u00c2\u00a0 First, I’d need to get that toilet fixed, but life’s too short for that.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, plumbers cost a fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received a mailer from a cleaning company the other day with the slogan, Life’s Too Short to Clean Your Own Home\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00a0 It sort of spoke to me.\u00c2\u00a0 At my age, a cancer and heart attack survivor, the brevity of … Continue reading