June 16, 2008

Safai is next to Khudai

This weekend it was FINALLY time for a super-mega-ultra-hyper cleaning exercise in our house. Four years of my husband's bachelorhood and close to two years of DITLAWM (Double Income Two Lazy Asses Without Maid) were furiously scrubbed away by a crew of 5 professional cleaners, 50 rag cloths, one industrial vacuum cleaner, one floor scrubbing monster machine, and 10 litres of blue and green chemical stuff that could boil your eyeballs in three-millionth of a second. When they left, we were not only poorer, exhausted, coughing, but also quite sure that it wasn't the same house! The bathroom floor is light grey! There is a tree outside the kitchen window! There is no longer a mummified Neanderthal in the loft!

We've thrown away one third of all our worldly possessions in this cleaning cycle. It's amazing how much stuff you can easily do without. Pretty soon, we'll have ten pairs of clothes (we're the same jeans AND kurta size), three computers, five utensils and 10 books. Then we can do our own cleaning.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

DITLAWM is probably the most aweome acronym in recent times. :)

Hornswoggler said...

yes i agree sqrint. mujhe cleaner ka number de. If u are DITLAWM, we are Almost DITLA With kid and play doh. sigh

Ink Spill said...

@sqrlnt: hehe!
@Rash: Handiman. Those folks in red jumpersuits! Keh dena you're a referral from the couple who threw away all their stuff :P

Anonymous said...

All the makings of another hit reality show. Mark my words...:)

wendigo said...

i've been thinking. mebbe it's time your blog background reflected the general sunniness of your life, lauu. i have a dirty feeling mr d. will agree with me and ahem.. do the geel porn for you himself.