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November 10, 2008
NabloPoMo 3.10: But a housekeeper wouldn't be a bad idea
I'm not the cleanest person on the planet.
I mean, I'm no Pigpen, but I'm not exactly obsessed with dusting my baseboards, and I refuse to scrub a perfectly clean toilet just to say I've cleaned it within the last week. I vacuum, I wipe down surfaces, and when the tiny hand-shaped smears on the windows begin to obscure my views, I've been know to break out the Windex.
Yes, things have gotten away from me on occasion. But a scummy shower door isn't going to give anyone food poisoning, and whether I clean it or not, scum is going to continue to build. Cleaning just strips away the foundation. I do not, however, generally let things get so nasty and funky that they start to smell. On the off chance that something does smell, I get right on it.
Which is why I have been so confounded by the downstairs guest bath. I cleaned that bathroom two weeks ago. I know because I specifically swabbed it down before the Daisy's came. A couple days later Katie dropped a bomb in there that was ridiculously foul for one so tiny. And the smell never. went. away.
How is that possible?
I went back into the bathroom searching for a stray dollop. I put my (not unskilled) nose to work looking for whatever rotting chunk of detritus was creating a stench strong enough to waft out of the bathroom and accost me every time I walked back to my office.
I found nothing.
A week later, and I have had my husband and father both sniffing around, looking for what I obviously missed. Nada. Not the cat water, not the trash can, not the potty ring.
Tonight, I went back into the bathroom with cleaning supplies. It's time for the Daisy's to return. I took the potty ring off the toilet and sprayed a killing layer on it's underside, and set it in the tub. And that's when I noticed the smell got stronger.
Apparently, we use that tub so infrequently that the p-trap dried up and funky sewer air has been making it's way into our home.
Posted by me at November 10, 2008 8:58 PM