I Want My House Sparkling Clean for the New Year

Unfortunately, I can’t afford a cleaning crew

Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
New Writers Welcome
2 min readDec 31, 2021

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Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Let’s see: I wiped down the baseboards in the front bathroom. Does that count?

I took down the Christmas/birthday cards I’d taped up. Poof! Gone.

I have a cleaning lady. She’s a ceramic figure I painted years ago. Her hair is in a rag, she has a broom and…

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Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
New Writers Welcome

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