I’ll admit it. I HATE cleaning the house. Not just dislike, but full-bodied, from my core, hate. Every time I clean I feel like a kid being punished. (“But I don’t waaaaanna clean the bathroom.”) Frankly, I think people who say they like cleaning are lying or have something seriously wrong with them. Don’t get me wrong, I like having a clean home and I do not live in unsanitary squalor. But there are hundreds of things I’d rather do. Like pick my toenails. Sort my sock drawer. Sit and blankly stare a wall.
Despite my apparent mental issues, I know that having a clean home is important, especially while going through treatment for cancer. But cleaning while you are ill is difficult, even for the nut jobs who say they like doing so. Enter cleaningforareason.org. This nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services to improve the lives of women undergoing treatment for cancer – any type of cancer.
They only accept 50 applications a day (Monday through Friday) and don’t have every city covered, but they do have nearly 800 cleaning partners in all fifty US states and Canada.
Now if only someone would offer free house cleaning to those of us with insane puppies…
