{"id":1113,"date":"2012-11-18T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2012-11-18T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:30:45","slug":"weekend-clean-up-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/11\/18\/weekend-clean-up-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Clean Up For The Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1117\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35168673@N03\/3704100781\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1117 \" title=\"Washing up\" src=\"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Washing-up2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image credit: libertgrace0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;m spending time\u00a0cleaning\u00a0up the house in\u00a0preparation\u00a0for the holiday. \u00a0I can&#8217;t believe Thanksgiving is only a few days away. Before any big family gathering I like to do a big deep cleaning if time permits. \u00a0I hate to think about someone coming over to my house and leaning against the mantle and being covered in dust.<\/p>\n<p>It brings images of the white glove check to mind. If a white glove can&#8217;t pass over the area and remain white then it isn&#8217;t clean. \u00a0That&#8217;s the principle I was raised on. I remember my mother and grandmother walking into my room after I told them I cleaned it to do a thorough check. \u00a0It was \u00a0always a scary thing and I hoped that I didn&#8217;t miss a spot.<\/p>\n<p>Today I plan to tackle the dusting of every room,\u00a0vacuuming,\u00a0and \u00a0steam\u00a0cleaning\u00a0of the carpets. It sounds\u00a0like\u00a0a lot but it really isn&#8217;t when you break it up in to chunks throughout the day. \u00a0The longest part is waiting \u00a0for the carpets to dry after they are cleaned. \u00a0Once they are cleaned I just have to make sure that the kids, or\u00a0anybody\u00a0else for that matter, do not track dirt in all over them again before\u00a0Thursday. It drives me nuts when that happens and I have to do it all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m spending time\u00a0cleaning\u00a0up the house in\u00a0preparation\u00a0for the holiday. \u00a0I can&#8217;t believe Thanksgiving is only a few days away. Before any big family gathering I like to do a big deep cleaning if time permits. \u00a0I hate to think about someone coming over to my house and leaning against the mantle and being covered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/11\/18\/weekend-clean-up-for-the-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Clean Up For The Holidays&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,14],"tags":[119,151,225,314,537,558,594,623,624],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleaning-2","category-family-and-friends","category-holidays","tag-carpets","tag-clean-up","tag-dust","tag-holiday","tag-steam-clean","tag-thanksgiving","tag-vacuuming","tag-white-glove","tag-white-glove-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}