{"id":238119,"date":"2010-01-27T18:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/cleaning-is-one-place-where-you-dont-start-at-the-bottom\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:07:54","slug":"cleaning-is-one-place-where-you-don%e2%80%99t-start-at-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238119","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Is One Place Where You Don\u2019t Start at the Bottom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All those homilies about starting at the bottom and working your way up? They don\u2019t apply to cleaning your house. In fact, if you do start at the bottom, you\u2019re going to reach the top, look down and realize you have to start all over again because every time you clean the step above, dust and dirt fall onto the step you\u2019ve just cleaned. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/cleanfromtoptobottom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;margin-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"clean from top to bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/cleanfromtoptobottom_thumb.jpg\" width=\"184\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I clearly remember being a puzzled child with a sponge in my hand and listening to my mom explain that if I wanted to help her clean the steps, I had to go to the very top to start cleaning and work my way down. I sort of assumed everyone had a similar experience and all grown ups knew to start at the top with cleaning. Then, I worked at a job with a janitor who was new to the profession and possibly had never cleaned before. He was pretty bummed out to discover that the steps were still dirty when he was done.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are new to cleaning a house or building, here are a few tips to help you get it done right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Begin with dusting the ceiling and ceiling fans or light fixtures hanging from it. I have yet to clean a really dusty fan without seeing a bit of dust fall onto the floor and probably never will.<\/li>\n<li>Clean the walls. This way, it doesn\u2019t matter if you drip water on the floor or end up shaking some dust around.<\/li>\n<li>Do the windows. Some people prefer to save them for last. I haven\u2019t had any problems with vacuuming stirring up so much dust it made the windows dirty again, though.<\/li>\n<li>Roll up any area rugs and take them outside to give them a good shaking. <\/li>\n<li>Clean the floor. Finally! Now that all the dust and dirt has fallen, you are ready to clean the floor. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if you are lucky, it will stay clean for five whole minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Do you clean from top to bottom? <\/p>\n<p>photo: SXC<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/cleaning-is-one-place-where-you-dont-start-at-the-bottom\/\">Cleaning Is One Place Where You Don&rsquo;t Start at the Bottom!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those homilies about starting at the bottom and working your way up? They don\u2019t apply to cleaning your house. In fact, if you do start at the bottom, you\u2019re going to reach the top, look down and realize you have to start all over again because every time you clean the step above, dust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}