Clean House

[Juniper]

I'll be the oddball - see, I don't understand how they could let their homes get this way. I mean this in the nicest possible way and I'm trying to understand - not insult - but how does it happen? Is it lack of time, lack of energy, what?

I can see how it happens for those with a mental illness or a physical disability, but most of the people on "Clean House" seem to be fairly normal people with normal lives outside their homes. So how does a person in reasonably good health let this happen?

I am by no means a neat freak. Good Lord, no. My house is kind of embarrassing most days and does have a few disaster spots - but nothing like those homes. Nothing unhygienic, buggy, smelly, rotten, just cluttered. REAL dirt bothers me too much to just let it go.

And someday I'll get the damn fruit flies out of my kitchen, too. Probably not till after canning season.