Clean your House like you are selling it

I have never been a very neat person.  Sure there are times when I get the urge and I clean and organized the entire house (or my office at work) but then a few weeks or even days later I start to slip.  The clutter will start to "appear".  I am just not a really neat person.  I get that.

This week I put my house on the market to sell.  Since Jess and I are moving to NC in 5 months it was time.  I mention this because having the mindset that someone could walk into my house, someone could be shown my house, at anytime has given me a new mindset.  I am now always thinking about statehood my of house.  I am always cleaning up anything that I put down.  Making sure that everything is straight before I leave the house.  BEING CONSCIENCE OF DUSTING (something that I never really did).

If it takes a couple months for the house to sell (please let it only be a couple months) then I will spend a great amount a time keeping the house clean.  Enough time that it should become habit.  Becoming more tidy and clean could never a bad thing.  Just like when I spent 11 months saving for Jess' engagement ring and then the next 12 months saving to move (a total of almost 2 years) my habits of saving have changed.  I am still a spender at heart but I am much better about saving and budgeting then I have ever been in my life.

I will chalk this up to a lesson that life has given me.  I will also admit that as I grow I am learning stuff the hard way that my parents tried to teach me over the past two decades.  Don't worry I will try to instill these hard lessons onto my unborn children with the full knowledge that they, like their father before them, will not listen.