I’ve stumbled across something magical, something that actually made me WANT to (wait for it…) vacuum the house! This is no easy feat, considering I’d literally vacuumed maybe 5 times in my entire life. I never ONCE vacuumed my room during the last 6 year reign at my parent’s house, because how can you swivel around all those piles of textbooks and clothes? Not to mention every 2 weeks, right as it would start to get bad, I would get home and miraculously the room would be spic and span, by some secret and powerful force named Lola! I had vacuumed maybe a couple times (after being asked of course) throughout the rest of the house, but I think the return on investment was so low for my mom that she realized it was hardly worth it. Apparently there is a science to vacuuming and I’d effed it up so bad that she would wait years before asking me again. Unfortunately, these sacred techniques of vacuuming are not innate, and even years later when Mom would ask me to vacuum again probably hoping I’d have accumulated these techniques, I’d go at it and she would just be reminded of how horrible of a job I’d done the couple years prior. Her investment of time and struggle to explain to me the methods of acheiving the perfect vacuum triangle MORE than outweighed the pros of a clean carpet. I always thought her decision not to ask me to vacuum was soundly financial as it was quite the sub-par ROI… although she called it some strange term that I never understood: “spoiled”? Something like that. :)
Either way, you can imagine the shock when I was goofing around Target, and stumbled across this strange specimen called “Glade Carpet Deodorizer” in the cleaner section. After reading the directions, it seemed simple and painless enough, pet-safe, and even somewhat exciting! So exciting that I was ITCHING to go home, sprinkle it, and (gasp!) vacuum.
The smell: divine! The experience: invigorating! The results: SUPERIOR!
I even left the house for a couple hours and upon returning was so pleased that the smell still lingered and my vacuum triangles were triumphantly staring back at me. Geometry and carpets never worked so well together before.
