On Sunday, I decided that I would clean the entirety of the house. Top to bottom.

Here is a breakdown of what happened:

• Removed all furniture from the living room

  • Vacuumed carpet and drapes

  • Dusted the furniture

• Removed all furniture from the dining room/hallways

  • Vacuumed all tiled areas

  • Mopped all tiled areas

• Washed all available counterspace/tabletops/appliances/surfaces

• Vacuumed stairs and the landing on the second floor

• Cleaned the bathroom counter

The entire process took 5 hours (not counting the time that I waited for the floors to dry). A pretty modest span of time considering that:

a) It was only me cleaning, which made moving furniture an interesting ordeal. b) The whole cleaning process was not something that would be done weekly. The vaccuuming, sure. But I would say the floor washing can be done bi-weekly.

So, anyway, you add maybe an additional half an hour to take into account the cleaning of the toilet and the shower. Brings you up to 5 1/2 hours to clean an entire CLV townhouse. Divide that among the four residents, and lose about 45 minutes every other week for the mopping, and you get:

Week A: 1 hour and 22 1/2 minutes per resident Week B: 1 hour and 11 1/4 minutes per resident

So, ranging from an hour to an hour and a half each week. Not a lot of time to clean the entirety of a house between four people.

I would say that is pretty decent. So, why does it seem that students have such a difficult time maintaining a clean home? I mean, the time to clean an entire home is equivalent to the time spent watching two episodes of television. Not an incredibly huge sacrifice. I just wish I could convince everyone else in the house of this fact.