I am sure everyone has heard that to stay healthy you MUST WASH YOUR HANDS before eating, after cleaning, after using the bathroom, and before getting ready to cook. Yes, YOU EVEN SHOULD WASH YOUR HANDS IF PLANNING TO TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THE REFRIGERATOR!
Also, a person should cover their cough/sneeze. Drink plenty of fluids, eat right and get plenty of rest. Also, avoid people who are sick. AND NOT ONLY KEEP YOUR BATHROOMS AND KITCHENS CLEAN BUT ALSO YOUR DOORKNOBS!
I didn’t get to post on this blog earlier this week due to all the baking that had to get done. For most of our clients, I bake a Caramel Braid which is better than Monkey Bread. So far, twelve Caramel Braids have been baked and distributed. Just as in the commercial for Lay’s Potato Chips, when the Caramel Braid is sitting on a plate in your kitchen, you can’t eat just one piece. It gets devoured.
Anyway, we clean up after two events at the Irish American Club. Last Saturday, the kids had Breakfast with Santa. There were 250 people there! And this past Monday, they had their Monthly Meeting.
Yes, the Christmas Season has started. It is time to clean house, bake cookies, and go Christmas shopping for family and friends. How is a person to do all of these things on top of having a full-time job? Or maybe you are the owner of a business where spare time seems to slip through your fingers?
All it takes is organization. You just have to plan your days from now through the New Year. I have already planned what to give my clients for Christmas. Most of them receive baked goods i.e. Caramel Braid or cookies. Only a very few receive a Poinsetta . Not everyone likes to take care of plants.
The next 20 days will find me working with my mid-sized Kitchen Aid mixer churning out probably 12 or 13 Caramel Braids and dozens of cookies. It will be tough but doable.
Where has the time gone? It is time to clean the house so that the decorations can be put up. The stove has to be cleaned for baking. The refrigerator also has to be done to store cookie and bread dough. The yard should be taken care of before putting out the lawn ornaments.
I am sure that you have cleaned your stove and refrigerator before Thanksgiving. But, cooking the turkey and casseroles can get the oven dirty again. It is ot good to let the oven get too dirty and messy before cleaning it again. And the refrigerator should at least be cleaned once a month.
what happened today might not sound unusual to you but to me it does. We cleaned a bachelor’s apartment who got a job out of state.
This apartment is the smallest residence that Fiorelli’s Grand Sweep has ever cleaned. It didn’t take long to clean either. The stove didn’t have a lot of grease and the refrigerator was a snap to wipe out. The bathroom just needed to be cleaned, windowsills and baseboards wiped clean, and the carpet vacuumed. Voila! What an unusual job but a thrill!
It is hard to believe that school has been in session for almost two weeks. Ss. Robert and William International Family Festival was held the weekend before school started so there was a little clean-up involved since the first floor bathrooms were used. Then, three days before the first day of school saw a flurry of activity trying to get the floors done, the bathrooms spiffed up and the other little things that helps everybody feel that this is a great place to be. Don’t you get that feeling when you go someplace and it is really CLEAN?
Even though people don’t usually work but plan to have picnics or do something extra-special. Me? Well, I decided to clean the shelves and drawers in my refrigerator!
I am not nuts! There is no reason for me to cook since we were invited to a Wedding BBQ. The couple got married in Mexico and today’s event will be at the North Chagrin Metropark. So.. hoping the weather will be nice. HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!
Twice in the past 2 months, I have come across on Yahoo News that people are living in smaller spaces, i.e. 240 sq.ft.!! Even the mayor of New York is pushing for smaller apartment units. Of course, the couple that rents an apartment as small as 240 sq. ft is only paying $1,400.00 a month rent. The cost-of-living is very expensive on the East and West Coasts.
Living in very small spaces takes discipline. Clothes Closets are very small so having a large wardrobe is out of the question. Small intimate dinner parties vice large gatherings would be the norm. While cooking, clean-up as you go is mandatory,
We recently completed cleaning 2 units in a rental property. It had the usual grease spots on the walls by the stove and down the sides of the stove. Who knows how long the grease has been there. When it is left too long, the grease spots get hard and cleaning is a major job.
The owner of the rental property stopped by to see how we were doing. He has had experience cleaning up a very dirty house at his previous job as a caretaker at a resort. Anyway, he commented that people think that sweeping the floor and vacuuming the carpet is pretty much all there is to cleaning. That is probably less than one-quarter the job of maintaining a residence. Cleaning the bathroom and kitchen should be done on a daily basis. If there was a mess that occurred on the stove, don;t wait to clean the next day. It is easier to clean when the grease/boiled over mess is fresh. Even laundry stains should be dealt with ASAP!
This month we are cleaning rental properties. Actually, there are 2 units in one property that we are currently cleaning.
Again, I am appalled how people do not take care of the property that they are inhabiting. There were grease spots on the wall around the stove. Once grease lands on the wall, it hardens. Cleaning grease off of walls is like piece work; it takes a lot of time to do this kind of work. And a person has to be careful while rubbing off the grease so that the paint doesn’t come off.