Well, just hire any woman from Augusta who, in preparing her home to
rent during Masters Week, has turned spring cleaning into an art
form. We purge closets, drawers, and cabinets and sort clothes and toys; we
wipe and dust baseboards, ceiling fans, walls, stair risers, and door frames; we
turn Swiffer into a verb (here, go swiffer
the blinds), wash the washing machine, become best friends with Mr. Clean
and his Magic Erasers, and as each room is finished we lock the door so husband
and children won’t un-do what we have just done.
Having strangers come stay
in your home is a huge incentive for making a good impression. Do we honestly
think that someone who has come to Augusta to attend the golf tournament is
going to judge us if there is dust on the baseboards or if the flatware
drawer is in shambles? You bet we do.
So we put flowers on nightstands and amenity baskets in the bathrooms. We place neatly stacked towels in the linen closet and a luggage rack in each bedroom. We hang a wreath on the front door and put out a new welcome mat.
Arrange, assemble, group, classify, categorize, purge, systematize, methodize, orchestrate, manage, conduct, administrate, mobilize ... the women of Augusta do it all. Think we can't run a country?
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